fuel prices can be easily coverd by raising the price of the ticket by a meger 10-15 dollars per pax. the thing is at some point EVERY AIRLINE will have to do it. everyone that has hedged the oil up will one day lose that and will face the same music everyone else has to. if there is one thing the airlines can actually do good it is agree when to raise the price, and do it at the same time.

http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/...fx4328686.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...d=networkfront

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Business/P...ory?id=3838837

http://www.rttnews.com/sp/todaystop....&item=55&vid=0

all over the world the ticket prices are going up, and we still have record number of people flying. even southwest is raising their prices.

if anything i tend to agree with tone, to a certain extent. although not to the extreme of rioting in the streets for firewood.