No airline practiced... Daily Memo: Southwest Turns Another Page As It Ditches Fuel Hedging is published in Aviation Daily, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is ...

The company, an outlier in the airline industry for its commitment to hedging, says the program got too costly.

Sometimes, you build something, and it becomes a big advantage. Then the world around you changes, and something kind of sad happens: You have to give up the thing you’ve gotten good at. That’s the ...

For now, Southwest's nixing of its fuel hedging program tunes out the risk of a preemptive strike on Iran's nuclear ...

In fact, on its website, Southwest posted a lengthy article that extols the smartness and benefits of fuel hedging and expressly tying the practice to its previous ability to offer free checked bags.

Southwest's strong balance sheet and Boeing 737 MAX order book are key assets, with potential cost savings from ending fuel hedging and fleet modernization. Southwest’s underperformance caught ...

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(Bloomberg) -- Southwest Airlines Co. will end its long-held policy of hedging against swings in fuel prices, marking a pullback of one of the few remaining US carriers that are active in the oil ...

Southwest Airlines, already under fire for ... According to Inc., it involves a process known as "fuel hedging," which is the idea of having a financial team that figures out when to buy future ...