tom911
Dec 6, 04, 9:24 am
Continental Airlines recently loaded an extra 10,000 lb. of jet fuel on a flight from Houston to Cancun, Mexico. With prices running 17 cents a gallon cheaper in Texas, Continental managers calculated it would be less expensive to haul the fuel to Mexico for the return flight.
They were right. Even accounting for the cost of transporting the additional fuel, the airline still generated a savings: a whopping $112.
No savings is too small these days in the global airline industry, where an unforeseen spike in crude oil prices has added billions of dollars to fuel tabs and forced carriers to turn to innovative--and sometimes desperate--measures to cut consumption, drop by drop.
Aviation Week link (http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/12064top.xml)
They were right. Even accounting for the cost of transporting the additional fuel, the airline still generated a savings: a whopping $112.
No savings is too small these days in the global airline industry, where an unforeseen spike in crude oil prices has added billions of dollars to fuel tabs and forced carriers to turn to innovative--and sometimes desperate--measures to cut consumption, drop by drop.
Aviation Week link (http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/12064top.xml)