Daily Memo: Southwest Turns Another Page As It Ditches Fuel Hedging is published in Aviation Daily, an Aviation Week ...

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

I did—but only originally because way back before I started writing about airlines so much, I included them in my investments, and I remembered the Southwest advantage from fuel hedging from ...

Southwest Airlines is ditching practices that set it apart in the industry, such as free checked bags and open seating. In its finance function, it is getting rid of fuel hedging. Southwest ...

Southwest Airlines, already under fire for getting ... 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 ...

Southwest Airlines is undergoing significant changes ... with potential cost savings from ending fuel hedging and fleet modernization. Southwest’s underperformance caught the well-documented ...

Coming as the carrier’s next major policy change to cut costs, Southwest Airlines has disclosed it has dropped its fuel hedging policy after stating that the exercise in the forward buying of aviation ...

Southwest Airlines is making headlines again, and not in the “peanuts and a smile” kind of way. After ruffling feathers by trimming its famed free bag policy, the airline has now axed its ...