...... Original Message ....... On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:48:44 -0400 "Craig Froehle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Perhaps the consumer airline industry doesn't deserve to survive in >its current state. Could it be that there is simply no way to fly a >person half-way across the globe for anything less than several times >what the typical consumer is willing to pay?
I hadn't realized this, but I heard that a 747 holds 53,000 gallons of fuel, and jet fuel is well over $7 a gallon now. I don't know how many of those gallons it takes to go from NY to LA, but that has to cost an awful lot. I heard an airline exec interviewed, and he said soon, air travel will be only for the rich. The days of the common man flying anywhere except under unusual circumstances are gone unless the price of oil plummets. Think of what that does to the Hawaiian tourism industry.
