Sentences with phrase «jet fuel costs»

(That's how much more a gallon of bio jet fuel costs verses regular JP - 8.)

Airlines have steadily added and increased fees for other services such as checking luggage and buying tickets from a reservation agent since 2008, first to help cover jet fuel costs, then to offset large losses.

Gary Kelly, Southwest Airlines chairman, president & CEO, breaks down his company's quarterly results and the impact of lower oil prices on jet fuel costs.

As jet fuel costs rise in accordance with oil prices — and already fuel has overtaken labour as airlines» biggest expense — air travel could risk becoming unaffordable for the average person.

«Our conversion process can potentially reduce jet fuel cost to end users by using lignin waste from refineries and less expensive catalytic upgrading to jet fuel.»

Not exact matches

Higher than expected costs and longer development times, have hampered the project, which would create a unusual source of jet fuel.

The hybrid electric jet will seat up to 12 people, fly up to 700 miles and have operating costs of 8 cents per seat mile, below the operating costs of small turboprops and business jets powered by jet fuel.

The cost of that fuel is based on the market price of jet fuel on the day I looked up those tickets, which was $ 0.475 / kg.

Transportation fuel costs have already fallen sharply in concert with the drop in crude prices: prices for jet fuel, for instance, which represents 26 percent of airlines» costs, fell by 52 percent between August 2014 and mid-January 2015.

Fuel makes up about 30 % of an airline's total expenses, so a 25 % decline in jet fuel prices implies a 7.5 % decrease in costs, all else being eqFuel makes up about 30 % of an airline's total expenses, so a 25 % decline in jet fuel prices implies a 7.5 % decrease in costs, all else being eqfuel prices implies a 7.5 % decrease in costs, all else being equal.

In the case of the regional airline industry, 1110 made it much easier for airlines to make consequence - free escapes from their leases after rising fuel costs made their 50 - seat jets less economical.

For example, if you believe that energy prices are going to decline, you might find transportation stocks appealing, because you believe one of the biggest cost inputs — gasoline and jet fuel — is about to plummet.

Yet although the price of jet fuel — which makes up around 30 % of airlines» costs — is down by more than half since January 2014, domestic air fares in America have barely budged (see chart).

UAL Corp, parent of United Airlines, said last week it will shrink its fleet by up to 4 percent this year to combat the skyrocketing cost of jet fuel.

«We estimate that this biofuel would cost the airline industry $ 5.31 / gallon, which is less than most of the reported prices of renewable jet fuel produced from other oil crops or algae,» said Deepak Kumar, a postdoctoral researcher at Illinois, who led the analysis.

A jet might be four times as fast, but a Dynalifter would consume less fuel and further cut costs by providing more space for large, bulky payloads, from flowers to bulldozers.

Of course, fuels from such sources also cost more than conventional jet fuel.

«Scientists brew jet fuel in one - pot recipe: Engineered bacteria can simplify biofuels production, potentially lowering cost.»

All of these fuels cost more than petroleum - based jet fuel.

«For airlines, a third or more of the operating costs are fuel,» Hunt notes, arguing that locking in bio — jet fuel at a consistent price will help airlines hedge that cost.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) in partnership with the US Air Force has issued a request for information (RFI)-- DE-FOA-0000981 — on research & development aimed at greenhouse gas emissions reductions and cost competitiveness of Mil - Spec jet fuel production using coal - to - liquid (CTL) fuel technologies.

HollyFrontier (HFC) is one of the largest independent petroleum refiners in the U.S. Through six complex refineries (which process lower - cost heavy sour crude into a higher percentage of fuel), its subsidiaries produce and market gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt, heavy products and specialty products.

Unadvertised deal today on flights from New York to Honolulu or Maui for just the cost of jet fuel.

It can easily replace diesel and teh oils used in manufacturing of plastics and can also be refined into jet fuel and other petroleum products... MIT has a bioreactor that is carbon negative (I believe)... I'm not a scientist (obviously), but it seems to me that this, along with wind, solar and tidal would go a long long way to solving some of these issues, at a fraction of the cost of continuing to drill and extract.

Finally, making large amounts of jet fuel from algae represents a major hurdle, from perfecting the algae's growth to extracting the oil cost - effectively.

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Other costs, primarily paying for jet fuel, would run the annual bill up to no more than $ 10 billion, much less than Americans spend on their dogs and cats.

For example, whereas commercial airlines are finally making profits, due to the low price of jet fuel (their most important variable operating cost), manufacturers of commercial aircraft will see lower demand for new planes if low jet fuel prices become the long - term norm.

Scientists from the United Kingdom have determined that climate change will lead to more virulent turbulence over the North Atlantic, costing comfort, jet fuel, and consequently raising fares.

Such a tax would be levied on all fuels, including, naturally enough, gasoline and jet fuel, and would add substantially to the cost of gasoline and electric power.

Mabus neglected to mention that camelina - based fuel costs $ 65 a gallon (ClimateWire, 6/28/10, subscription required)-- about 30 times more than commercial jet fuel.

The US Navy research has calculated the cost of making jet fuel from seawater on board their nuclear powered aircraft carriers.

Gasoline, diesel, jet fuels, etc. pack a lot of energy per unit, can be burned pretty clean, do not destroy engines, are readily available, cost much less energy to produce than what they provide, and do not distort things like food supplies or national budgets to use.

«We should be asking people to pay the cost of putting carbon into the atmosphere as they buy the fuel,» said Josh Willis, climate scientist and oceanographer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

On the other hand, mixing just enough biofuels into jet fuel and maybe some new chemical processes applied to petroleum refining (hope it doesn't need HF)... Or maybe would could try to strip the H from the C in the «waste» products (might be economical if gasoline, being waste, only costs a penny -LRB-?)

An Indian low - cost airline, IndiGo, has been the first buyer of 150 Airbus A320neo fuel - efficient jets, not only expanding its currently modest

No Amount of Fees Will Erase Fuel Costs In any case, the bottom line is that no matter what the airlines do they won't be able to get around the reality of expensive jet fFuel Costs In any case, the bottom line is that no matter what the airlines do they won't be able to get around the reality of expensive jet fuelfuel.

This new technology is scalable, sustainable and can be commercially produced as a cost comparable to conventional jet fuel.

The increased competition, coupled with the rising cost of jet fuel and American's failure to reach a new labor deal with pilots, created enough turbulence to send AMR into bankruptcy.