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Old Feb 13, 2019, 11:22 pm
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Originally Posted by Jagboi
That yield graph strikes me as quite odd, as 2015 is when yields drops, yet that is also when oil prices crashed. Fuel should have been much cheaper in 2015-and again in 16 than in 2014, which should have boosted yields. Or was there a proportionately greater loss of customers in the oil and gas markets than was made up for in lower fuel costs?
Airlines hedge against oil price changes so it's possible that any major downshift in oil prices has a 1-2 year delay in reaching their bottom line (conjecture, no avtuac insight into this)
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