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Re:Concorde ‘B’ by Fomite on Monday May 07, 2018 @04:05PM (#17016036)
And yet a number of "First/Business Class Only" airlines have failed.
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Re:Concorde ‘B’ by zone411 on Monday May 07, 2018 @09:34PM (#17018134)
But most of them failed because a jump in oil prices in 2006-2014. We're below these levels now.
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Re:Concorde ‘B’ by Fomite on Monday May 07, 2018 @11:49PM (#17018665)
For the moment. I don't know that I'd want to build a business - and certainly not an aircraft production line - on the assumption that oil will remain this cheap.
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Re:Concorde ‘B’ by zone411 on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @01:47AM (#17019083)
What airlines often do if they are worried about this is to hedge through oil futures.
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