Tracking US airline expense growth trends
Tag fuel costs
Fuel costs reflect risk and attraction of consolidation
Fuel costs are an airline’s most significant exogenous input. They are impossible to control (hedging can only do so much) and can throw out any budget planning overnight. Here is a data visualization of the US airline industry using Form…
Alaska Airlines’ Q3 was not easy for multiple reasons
Qantas not ruling out higher fares if fuel costs continue to soar
Uganda Airlines seeks AFRAA umbrella against high fuel costs
Uganda Airlines has advanced plans to join the African Airlines Association, AFRAA Joint Fuel Purchase program, to mitigate the impact of the high jet fuel prices on its cost base. Fuel as a component now accounts for 52 percent of…
Soaring fuel costs and Dollar hurt unhedged Wizz Air
Wizz Air’s policy not to hedge fuel costs has bitten it hard in the first quarter of FY23. While passenger numbers and revenues significantly increased, they were negated by the effects of higher fuel and operating costs. It pushed the ultra-low-cost…