Thursday, May 10, 2007

Taiwan's China Airlines Reduces Its Fuel Hedging in a `Dangerous' Market

(Bloomberg) -- China Airlines, Taiwan's largest carrier, has reduced fuel hedging by about 67 percent since ``volatile'' prices made the cost of the contracts riskier than buying jet kerosene on the spot market.

``It's too dangerous to make any kind of hedging now,'' Chairman Philip Wei said May 9. ``Since last October until now, we did two, or three transactions, no more,'' Wei said in an interview in Taipei. ``We don't do any hedging now.''


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