This week Avgas averaging 4.03 and Jetfuel is now at 1.17.

Interestingly enough my airline has recently started upping the cost index used in our flight management systems to improve on time performance. This will directly result in more fuel burned per leg. Offseting this however is the largest percentage of parked aircraft since before or after 9/11 due to economic pressures and demand. We are at nearly 12% of worldwide fleets "parked". This data from recent Aviation Week articles.

Avgas 4.00 even

Jet fuel is back up to 1.29

Interesting that jet fuel has come back up even with the reduction in demand.

Do they require jet fuel refiners to put additives in during the summer like they do for gasoline?

I am pretty sure Jet fuel additives are done at delivery time. Not at the refinery. Not 100% sure about this.

Avgas is back up very slightly at 4.05

Jet fuel is ramping up again a bit, it's up to 1.45 this week.

I think this is a refining margin issue instead of a supply and demand one currently.

Not too much change but we are up a few cents last few weeks.

Avgas 4.12

Jet Fuel 1.47

Continued increases this week...

Avgas 4.17

Jet Fuel 1.54

The steady march back up continues.

Jetfuel is at 1.87/gal

Avgas is up to 4.39 this week.

I had really hoped for things to stay at lower numbers for a while longer

No huge change from last month.

Jetfuel 1.84

Avgas 4.40

Hi AP, how long would we keep the airlines if they had to pay a 50 cent Federal per gallon tax on jet fuel?

If we really need to reduce fossil fuel use killing off or severly reducing the amount of wide body flights in a given year should help.

I hate to say it but the airlines are a significant portion of GDP currently. I think its on the order of 10% maybe a bit more. Any hurt on them further discourages the already in trouble economy. I doubt you'll see anything but more bailout mentality until we just cant do it anymore.

I do agree though FF use needs to be curbed across the board.

Avgas 4.47

Jetfuel 1.76

Both national averages. Seems the demand side for Avgas has picked up(slightly) recently according to a few industry analysts over the last
month or two.

It is difficult to factor the conflicts in projected demand for air travel against the price of a barrel of oil just now. ATA keeps posting declines in air traffic while predicting that the bottom is close. We sure haven't seen it yet.

I know they say traffic is down but every flight I've been on since spring has been right full.
These are flights involving Vancouver, Calgary, Tulsa and Dallas.
Other areas must be slower?

Don't know about Canada, but US carriers have been very agressive at cutting flights-so while passengers are down, so are flights-keeping load capacity flat at pretty high levels.



Those are worldwide figures. I think US carriers have an average load factor in the mid 80s, and I think that's true for Air Canada as well.