Book Flights This Summer While Fuel Costs Stay Cheap (bloomberg.com) 56
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 (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
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Also, if you do travel do NOT travel to the U.S.A.. They'll seize your electronic devices, snoop on all your media accounts and flag you as a potential terrorist because you were not born in the U.S. of fucking A.
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Or even if you are from the U.S.
Recently I just came back from vacation for a couple weeks and upon re-entry the DHS rifled through all my stuff then they questioned me on where I went, why I went, who I knew there, how I knew them, how long I've known them and what I did while I was there. Then the TSA did the same thing all over again because I guess apparently the TSA does not trust the DHS or something. I honestly did not have anything to hide but I felt really uncomfortable through the whole ordeal.
Als
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You're only partly right.
You're a potential terrorist even IF you were born in the USA.
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I've never been on an airplane in over four decades. I don't plan on doing so either.
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If you care about the planet, you also won't ask for a private plane:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... [dailymail.co.uk]
But, you know, Hillary really cares about global warming and all that, right?
I'll do as they do, not as you say (Score:2)
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.
Throw down your cowl of devotion and open your eyes. You can see, if you choose to.
Re: Please don't (Score:1)
But travel exposes people to different cultures, and makes prejudice less likely. Prejudice leads to war, which leads to flights carrying bombs which are much worse for the environment. Send tourists, or send bombs. It really is that simple... with tongue somewhat in cheek.
Air travel is better than driving (Score:2)
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
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As an added attraction (Score:1)
SouthPark "It" (Score:2)
Americans will gladly take it in the ass and bitch about it... but continue to do it especially if you throw them a bone.
SouthPark It [youtube.com]
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As long as only the prices go down...
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Prices are low because of improved techniques for hydraulic fracturing and enhanced oil recovery [wikipedia.org]. 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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 [wikipedia.org] the Saudis for years anyway, plus there's a number of other non-OPEC countries which add up fast too.
Re:United Airlines says they can't be beat. (Score:5, Funny)
"Southwest: We beat the competition. Not you."
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Take a beating on the plane, not baggage fees
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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.
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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.
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it was a joke
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it was a joke
I am an Aspie. I am immune to jokes [chicagotribune.com].
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Bags fly free, so there's no excuse not to bring your mother-in-law.
News for nerds because? (Score:3, Insightful)
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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You're that much of a moron, that you didn't notice that the data refers to last year.
Reasons not to fly (Score:5, Interesting)
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
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*ahem* reasons not to fly on commercial airliners
None of them apply if you fly general aviation aircraft.
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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
Hi, UK resident here. I'd like to state that reasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 10 are just reasons to avoid flying to the US.
I rate the best airports to go through, in this order, Singapore-Changi, London-Heathrow and Amsterdam-Schipol. Note none of them are in the United states, personally I rate Bogata-El Dorado better than any American airport. We just don't have the same problems as you, English, Dutch and Singaporean security staff are polite and respectful, we use standard X-rays at Heathrow, the whole
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Reasons to fly:
1) My car has issues driving over the Atlantic.
2) Spending 6 hours in a plane gets you further than 6 hours in a car.
But I agree with the sentiment, at lest the two points you made which apply outside the USA anyway.
TFS reads exactly like a click-bait article. (Score:2)
n/t
WTF, /. (Score:3)
Seriously. This is just advertising. It's not even tech related.
Story: -1 offtopic
Breaking news! (Score:2)
Planes is last on my preferences for travel method (Score:2)
I don't plan on flying with the shit passengers have to put up with. It's bus or car for me.
no need to rush (Score:2)
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