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.

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 ...

Fuel hedging was very important to Southwest; in fact, when the airline celebrated its 50th anniversary a little while ago, it posted an online tribute to the fuel hedging effort. It credited the ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 has made a slew of policy changes lately, including the end of its free checked bag offering. Now, competitors of the Dallas carrier are trying to capitalize on customer ...

Last month, Southwest Airlines announced a few major changes to the airline's policies as they eliminated their longstanding policy of free baggage as well as their open seating policy on their ...