Originally Posted by
raehl311
Eh?
Shrinking works just fine with elastic demand - you increase the price, less people fly, and you keep only the capacity to service the reduced demand at a higher margin.
What's interesting is that a wee bit shy 10% of oil consumption in the US is jet fuel. If there's half as many flights, does that help with the regular gas prices a bit?
Jet fuel is kerosene manufactured to Jet A/JP-8 specs. It won't work in most cars. Kerosene also ends up (different additive packages) as no. 2 diesel & no. 2 heating oil.
It won't work in most cars, but cutting Jet A demand should reduce diesel & heating oil costs. To use any of the kerosene-type fuels directly in most diesels requires adding something for lubricity, since most diesel fuel injectors rely on lubrication from the fuel. Jet A & 10-20% biodiesel is a good combination.
Originally Posted by
Klm is Dead - Long Live KLM
More rude slobs eating stinky, messy things on board airplanes. Geez, I can hardly wait.
Just add a few under-bathed, swarthy software salesmen, several families traveling with half their house as carry on luggage, a live chicken and a pig or two and the only difference between flying in the states and taking the bus or train in the Indian or Colombian countryside is that you are guaranteed a place to sit.
There will probably be some hefty airline fees for each chicken ($75) and pig ($400), companion pigs possibly excepted.
I wouldn't count on a place to sit.