Originally Posted by
Jrod1500
The fuel crisis is what it is, but other countries have been operating aircraft on expensive fuel for years. The airlines here will just have to adapt, and the ones that don't will fall. Still another thread that was about hiring that turned to a fuel debate. On the subject the rjet website has a first officer job posting that was just added on the 15th so unless they called hiring quits in the last few days I would say things are still looking up. Like Jacks said there are more people that need simulator training than there are simulators available.
The difference is that oil reserves are traded in dollars, and foreign airlines (who buy crude with euros, yen, and yuan) are able to hedge the cost increase because they get more dollars (thus more oil) per unit of currency compared to US Airlines.