American Airlines blames fuel prices as services cut
Afp, Washington
American Airlines said Friday that because of "skyrocketing" fuel prices it was suspending 15 round-trip flights and scrapping its service between Chicago and the Japanese city of Nagoya. Services out of the biggest US carrier's two main hubs at Chicago O'Hare and Dallas/Fort Worth International to other US cities, plus Toronto in Canada, are being scaled back from next Wednesday until October 29. The service between Chicago and Nagoya in western Japan will be discontinued at the end of October. American Airlines executive vice president Dan Garton said the suspension of the 15 services in North America would be reviewed at the end of next month based on the price of jet fuel then. "Jet fuel prices have been rising even faster than crude oil prices for the last year, but it was the 39-percent rise in jet fuel costs in the last month alone that pushed us to make this decision," he said in a statement. "We have made incredible progress in lowering our operational costs for over two years now. However, skyrocketing fuel costs have eaten up all of those savings and more," he said.
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