Old 08-31-2010 | 10:27 AM
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Originally Posted by johnso29
It's unlikely oil will hit $147 a barrel again as speculation has been made illegal.

Correction...unlikely anytime in the near future.

But eventually the oil will start to run out for real...at that point larger airplanes really are more cost-effective. Frequency will be trumped by price and you will have 777 doing LAX-SFO...on Mon/WED/FRI/SUN. Unless a cost-effective Jet A alternative is available in mass-production quantities, airplanes will start to disappear, smallest ones first. When? Who knows for sure...but sometime this century and I suspect somewhat sooner rather than later.
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