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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.
"Southwest: We beat the competition. Not you."
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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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Wait till it takes a barrel of oil energy to recover one barrel of oil.
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.
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"?
Seriously. This is just advertising. It's not even tech related.
Story: -1 offtopic