Higher Fuel Costs
Stringent cost controls helped most U.S. major airlines partially offset escalating fuel prices in late 1999, but fourth-quarter profits still nosedived. Hardest hit was US Airways, whose operating costs rose by more than 16%, to $2.3 billion. The substantial rise reflects, among other things, a 52...
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