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 also announced another move on March 11 which has potentially even greater ramifications for its bottom ...

Fuel hedging became widespread among airlines around the world ... Daily Memo: Southwest Turns Another Page As It Ditches Fuel Hedging is published in Aviation Daily, an Aviation Week Intelligence ...

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 ...

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

(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 ...

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It’s the end of an era, as Southwest Airlines, known for being a low-budget carrier, announced it would start charging passengers for checked bags for tickets purchased on or after May 28.

(Bloomberg) -- Southwest Airlines Co. will begin charging passengers for some ... revealing plans last year to ditch its open seating policy, while also announcing a new premium class section and ...

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