Amid rising geopolitical tensions, a recent 7% surge in West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude has renewed focus on airline fuel ...

As previously discussed on Simple Flying, the largest operational expense that airlines face is the cost of fuel which, ...

It’s a practice known in the industry as fuel hedging. American Airlines, which merged with US Airways, last year adopted that carrier’s policy of not hedging, which allowed American to take ...

In the first quarter of this year, Southwest paid $1.98 per gallon for fuel. American Airlines paid $2.73, and United paid $2.83 per gallon in the same period. Since 1999, hedging has saved ...

something like 160 million, if we had an industry average hedging program... despite the fact that fuel [costs] were up from $70 to $92 a barrel across the year. So hard to understand how you can ...

Delta reported a $712 million loss after taking $1.4 billion in special charges, mostly hedging losses. Excluding those items, Delta would have earned $649 million, or 78 cents per share.

Besides an innovative point-to-point network and a focus on customer satisfaction, one of Southwest's key differentiators has been its fuel hedging program, which it started in 1994. The idea was ...

fleet managers are turning to fuel hedging as insurance to control fuel spend, the second highest fleet cost behind depreciation, because low prices may inevitably rise in the not-to-distant future.

SEATTLE — Airlines that pay for their jet fuel when they fill up their planes have been forking well over $2 a gallon lately — nearly four times the average price they were paying just four ...

As a part-time follower of news affecting the electric utility industry, I recently read that the Florida Public Service Commission put a halt to fuel hedging by the big Florida utilities.