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lionstone a écrit :Le pilote a du lire sur le site qu’on pouvait rouler à l’huile de friture usagée, il a essayé avec son avion.
Maintenant ça baigne pour lui mais pas dans l’huile.

patrice a écrit :L'embellie avant la chute ?
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Published on 1 Aug 2005 by Aviation Week and Space Technology. Archived on 8 Aug 2005.

USAF fuel costs blowout cuts weapons research fundingby Amy Butler

The Pentagon is discovering it's not immune from the high gas prices that have overwhelmed taxpayers' cheque books and dampened summer travel plans across the U.S. Defense Dept. planners are now estimating fuel costs may add as much as $4 billion to what was already expected to be a shortfall of nearly $6 billion in Fiscal 2007 and each year following. This nearly doubles the predicted annual deficit of about $10 billion.

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John Jumper says he cannot confirm the impact on the upcoming Fiscal 2007 budget, which goes to Congress in February, but it "is enough to be worried about." Because USAF operates the bulk of the Defence Dept.'s gas-guzzling aircraft, it generally consumes the largest amount of fuel. Meanwhile, the service is cutting back by $3 billion this fiscal year

Last October the Pcntagon revised its oil price estimate for Fiscal 2005 to $36.87 per barrel of crude, about 50% higher than the $24.44 projected earlier (A W&ST Dec. 6.2004. p.62). Pentagon spokeswoman Marine Corps Lt. Col. Rose-Ann Lynch acknowledges fuel cost has increased again since then. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries estimated last week the per barrel crude price, based on 11 oil varieties, at more than $52.

These numbers have bean counters at the Pentagon scrambling to pay its bills. As usual in the summer, analysts there are running through various scenarios in order to find the right programs to cut. Steven Kosiak, budget studies director at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, says the Defense Dept. "has a serious plans-funding mismatch."

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However, one financial analyst noted that $3-4 billion is a small fraction of the Defense Dept's expenses: $5.6 billion are spent each month on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. With supplemental spending, the Pentagon's annual budget surpasses $500 billion. Still, the Pentagon is facing an increasing population of veterans in need of health care, expensive operations abroad and cost growth in major acquisition programs.

lionstone a écrit :la récente faillite de l'irlandaise EUjet

[u]Le site internet d'EUjet[/u] a écrit :Dear Customer,
Following recent developments and due to circumstances beyond our control, EUjet with deep regret wish to inform you that with immediate effect the airline has ceased all operation and flights.

La vente d'une de ses filiale régionale ne permettra pas à la compagnie aérienne de faire face à ses besoins en liquidités à long terme. La direction de Delta Airlines pourrait rapidement se placer sous la protection du régime des faillites.

La compagnie aérienne subit de plein fouet la hausse du prix du carburant. Cette facture a augmenté de 56% depuis le début de l'année et a atteint 1,1 milliard de dollars au deuxième trimestre.

je viens de voir que delta air lines demandait a pouvoir profiter des lois sur la faillite aux USA ( pourquoi je met ce minable pays en majuscules , me voila influencé par le monstre moi aussi )

fabinoo a écrit :Y'a encore un avion qui s'est cassé la gueule, ça commence à faire beaucoup en quelques jours

lionstone a écrit :Le transport aérien se débat pour rester rentable malgré le pétrole cher[ samedi 13 août 2005]

"Etant donné la vive concurrence qui sévit dans l'aérien, une hausse du poste carburant force les compagnies à choisir entre la peste et le choléra: répercuter cette hausse sur les passagers, au risque de perdre des parts de marché, ou bien réduire leurs marges commerciales", explique Olivier Rech, de l'Institut français du pétrole (IFP).