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#jet fuel

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A grounded yellow Spirit Airlines Airbus A320 sitting alone on a rain-slicked empty tarmac at twilight with navigation lights off and jet bridge retracted, while a JetBlue blue Airbus A220 taxis under runway lights in the middle distance, the contrast of dead yellow and living blue, photojournalistic style with available light, shot on Canon EOS R5 200mm telephoto, gritty film grain, Pulitzer Prize photo journalism aesthetic

May 6, 2026 • 6 min read

4 Airlines Beg $2.5B. DOJ Bailed Out JetBlue Free in 2024.

Spirit Airlines shut down before dawn Saturday after Trump's $500 million rescue collapsed. Four budget carriers immediately asked the White House for $2.5 billion. JetBlue is not one of them. The reason is a 2024 antitrust ruling nobody at the DOJ designed as a hedge.

#JetBlue #Spirit Airlines #airline bankruptcy

Dramatic night scene of a massive industrial oil refinery with towering distillation columns, gas flare stacks burning orange, and glowing jet fuel storage tanks under a stormy indigo sky, with a single commercial airliner in silhouette on a rain-slicked tarmac in the foreground

Apr 4, 2026 • 18 min read

3 Airlines Killed Hedges. Delta's $150M Refinery Paid Off.

Three US airlines walked away from fuel hedging between 2014 and 2025. Delta owns a refinery in Pennsylvania. Since the Iran war began, UAL is down 13%, LUV down 24%, AAL down 17%, and DAL is flat. The 185,000 barrel-per-day Trainer refinery is no longer a curiosity. It's the only hedge that's working.

#Delta Air Lines #airlines #jet fuel