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Book Flights This Summer While Fuel Costs Stay Cheap (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader shares an article: It's the best summer for jet setting in more than a decade. As jet fuel costs have sustained near 12-year lows after a global crude market crash in late 2014, airlines are cutting ticket prices and travelers have noticed. Global passenger data show that air travel demand started the second quarter at growth rates unseen in six years, and U.S. carriers hauled more passengers than ever before last year. Worldwide, first quarter air travel costs dropped about 10 percent compared with the same period a year ago, according to the International Air Transport Association. About one-third of those costs can be linked to cheaper fuel, according to Savanthi Syth, senior vice president of airlines global research Raymond James & Associates.
Please don't travel more. Burning the fuel for air travel releases massive amounts of greenhouse gases. We need less air travel, not more of it. If you care about the planet, you won't take advantage of the cheap airfare.
Enjoy your strip-search!
As long as only the prices go down...
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Take a beating on the plane, not baggage fees
I wish I could downmod this off the front page as doesn't sound like "news for nerds," but I will make two small concessions:
1) it's possibly of general interest, which includes nerds. Take to to a general-interest forum, not /. Next up on Slashdot, tomorrow's weather forecast....
2) nerds travel to industry conferences and other industry events. Okay, maybe, but it's very tenuous. Slow news day???
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Prices are low because of improved techniques for hydraulic fracturing and enhanced oil recovery. These improvements are not going to "unhappen", so it is unlikely that we will every again see $100/barrel oil. American frackers, not Saudis, are the swing producers that set the price. The era of expensive oil is over.
Wait till it takes a barrel of oil energy to recover one barrel of oil.
Take a beating on the plane, not baggage fees
Or learn to travel light. Even for a two week trip, everything I need fits in my backpack. If I fly SWA, I am not subsidizing people that bring an extra 50 lbs of crap.
Americans will gladly take it in the ass and bitch about it... but continue to do it especially if you throw them a bone.
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Take a beating on the plane, not baggage fees
Or learn to travel light. Even for a two week trip, everything I need fits in my backpack. If I fly SWA, I am not subsidizing people that bring an extra 50 lbs of crap.
Actually, the reverse. If you fly an airline such as SWA that does NOT charge extra for checked baggage, then it's not just the passengers who check bags who are paying for their transportation cost, it's everyone on the plane, including.... you.
1) Beatings. Obviously, the beatings.
2) Date-rape scanners
3) Illegal search and seizure
4) Increasingly obscene rules about laptop use
5) Sardines get more legroom
6) Increasingly obscene rules about carry-on bags
7) If you live in central USA, it often is faster to drive than to deal with the airport. Particularly if you have to check bags
8) Flights are often late, connections are often missed. Bad if flying alone, horrifying if flying with young kids
9) Flying with other people's young kids (Not that mine are angels, but I suffer from them regardless of venue)
10) Going to go back up to beatings, because that's worth two mentions
You're that much of a moron, that you didn't notice that the data refers to last year.
Wait till it takes a barrel of oil energy to recover one barrel of oil.
The energy for processing oil doesn't come from oil. It usually comes from NG, or sometimes even from coal.
Cost for 1M BTU of NG: $3
Cost for 1M BTU from oil: $17
$3 for NG is the Henry Hub price. It is going to be much cheaper in the oilfields, where it is sometimes flared off as a waste product.
These improvements are not going to "unhappen", so it is unlikely that we will every again see $100/barrel oil.
Improved techniques have often reduced the price of production and expanded accessible reserves in the past - yet the price still went up later, despite those improvements not "unhappening".
It's pretty naïve to think that the price of a finite resource, subject to regular market manipulation, that has fluctuated wildly and often in the past, and now with the prospect of significant carbon prices hanging over it, isn't likely to go up ever again, or even soon.
Why would anyone engrave "Elbereth"?
it was a joke
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Your head prophets of the Warming is Harmful religion all travel by private jet and thereby spread more carbon in a year than I will in a lifetime flying commercial.
Even if they didn't fly, the energy used to heat and co the modern palaces they live in spread more co2 than I ever could...
I'll treat warming as a crisis when the people who say it is a crisis start acting like it.
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Bags fly free, so there's no excuse not to bring your mother-in-law.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Seriously. This is just advertising. It's not even tech related.
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I just heard that United is offering beating at half price!
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
I don't plan on flying with the shit passengers have to put up with. It's bus or car for me.
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Improved techniques have often reduced the price of production and expanded accessible reserves in the past
That is true, but it has never before happened on the scale of what is happening today. In the past, the improvements were incremental, and never deprived the Saudis of their ability to set the price by adjusting their production. Today, America is on track to being the world's largest producer of oil. The Saudis have cut production and instead of stabilizing, prices have continued to fall. Saudi Arabia can't afford to cut production any further, and are in the process of selling shares in ARAMCO, which is tantamount to auctioning off their reserves, just to keep their economy afloat.
My prediction (you heard it here first): Within ten years the Saudi Royal Family will be gone.
A Boeing 737 Max has a 3515 nautical mile range (4045 statute miles) and 6853 gallon fuel capacity. With 162 passengers, this works out to 95.6 MPG per passenger (2.46 L/100 km). Competitive with most cars carrying 3 people.
Their massive fuel burn from air travel is because of the long distances they travel, not because air travel is inherently worse than other forms of transport. If you're planning a weekend getaway by car, you'll probably only have enough time to travel a couple hundred miles, thus limiting your fuel consumption. But if you fly, you can travel a couple thousand miles in the limited amount of time.
For trips of the same distance, flying is usually more environmentally friendly than driving with 1-2 people, sometimes more friendly than driving with 3-4 people.
Fuel prices aint going to ever rebound to those previous highs. for the last few years a ceiling has been installed on the prices by the fact a heap of high cost producers are sitting and ready to jump in the market the second the price gets to a moderate level that makes them marginally profitable, this has taken away a lot of the power of OPEC to inflate prices, they only have the ability to sink prices to keep them out of the market.
You may be right, though I think other factors will be more important than America's production levels - US production has ramped fast, but demand could fall just as fast. And Russia has been out-producing the Saudis for years anyway, plus there's a number of other non-OPEC countries which add up fast too.
Why would anyone engrave "Elbereth"?
The prices are highly based on what people are willing to pay.
e.g. a flight Brussels-NYC-Brussels is much cheaper than NYC-Brussels-NYC if you take the same flights.
And when I compare US prices to prices in Europe with the same distance in flight, the fuel must be a lot cheaper in Europe. No, not only looking at cheap airlines. Yes, I verified that the distance was similar.
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it was a joke
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