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AMR, Southwest CEOs worried about rising oil prices

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AMR, Southwest CEOs worried about rising oil prices

POSTED: Thursday, May 21, 2009, 10:02 AM
Both AMR CEO Gerard Arpey and Southwest boss Gary Kelly, in separate news conferences after annual shareholders' meetings, said they are concerned about the damage rising oil prices could do to their business. With the recession already pushing down demand, and thus revenue, a runup in fuel costs to last year's levels would be bad indeed. Read more at this link. 
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:47 AM, 05/21/2009
    then "book the oil at the current price before it gets higher...Simple eh.YHS
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:48 AM, 05/21/2009
    The "folks" at CNBC said the recession "bottomed out" on March 21st. Bet you didn't know that... YHS


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