High prices for aviation fuel are making life tough for passenger airlines - je 05.11.2007

And high prices for aviation fuel are making life tough for passenger airlines like Lufthansa. They burn millions of tonnes of kerosene a year, even though today's aircraft are more fuel efficient than ever. So the airlines are forced to continually revise their cost calculations and planning. Lufthansa maintains its own options trading unit in order to hedge fuel price fluctuations. +++SYN-MAZ+++