“and a brutal jet-fuel price shock that derailed its efforts to emerge from bankruptcy this summer”
BS, Airlines use futures contracts, along with options and swaps, to hedge against volatile fuel prices by locking in a set price for future consumption.
So this is propaganda to point the finger in part at Trump, or Spirit deserves to be no more for not hedging there fuel contracts.
I caught that, too. One could accurately just strike that from the list of reasons and add “They sucked at their job”
Maybe most airlines, but not Spirit. Spirit was in bankruptcy for some time before it failed, and I can assure you that nobody was selling fuel to the company under any kind of contract. They would have to pay cash for fuel on the spot market to buy fuel from any supplier that isn’t retarded.
Airlines contract fuel prices for the year. If prices go up or down, doesn’t matter.
Nobody points out that fuel prices were way higher under Biden and the economy sucked.
Is this a rolling contract, or is a set period?
Because (I submit) that if a contract had to be renegotiated/initiated now, that high fuel prices can come into play. The article could be right.
Delta Air owns an oil refinery in Pennsylvania.