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		ars on July 29, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Americans drove 9.6 billion fewer miles in May 200... Only southwest hedges their fuel prices, apparently the other airlines don't have the money to do it. They complain that it's "not fair".

mhb on July 30, 2008 [–]

So when a customer buys a ticket, the airline is in such bad financial shape that they can't use some of the cash from that ticket payment to buy the future fuel for that customer's flight? That is pretty dire.

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