{"id":151841,"date":"2024-11-26T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/jet-fuel-hedging-airlines-handle-fluctuations\/"},"modified":"2024-11-26T05:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T19:00:13","slug":"jet-fuel-hedging-explored-how-airlines-handle-fluctuations-in-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=151841","title":{"rendered":"Jet Fuel Hedging Explored: How Airlines Handle Fluctuations In Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As previously discussed on Simple Flying, the largest operational expense that airlines face is the cost of             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"265461\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/jet-fuel\/\"  >fuel<\/a><\/span> which, depending on the year, typically accounts for somewhere between 20% and 30% of their total operational expenses. This poses a serious challenge for airlines, which must be prepared to handle periods of rising fuel prices, and, <strong>as individual carriers are such a small part of the global energy demand picture, they have little ability to influence market prices<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This practice can be a key part of airline strategies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,13240,8766,5976,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-commercial-aviation","category-fuel-hedging","category-operating-costs","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151842,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151841\/revisions\/151842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}