Ideally, this hedging lowers the average fuel costs a carrier pays over time.

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It is believed that leaking fuel-pipes caused the American-built carrier to explode off Arran.

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The Japanese carrier has been struggling with competition, rising fuel prices and huge debts.

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However, the airline is trying to make up for the higher labor costs through efforts like fleet replacement aimed at deriving fuel efficiencies and the recent spin-off of its regional carrier, American Eagle to access more competitive rates from other carriers.

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Way back in 1978, Schneider National, the largest truckload carrier in the land, began offering drivers incentives for fuel management.

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The authors believe their system could combine the advantages of methanol as a hydrogen carrier and of proton-exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells for efficient energy production.

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Continental's enthusiasm for the 757 came under scrutiny four years ago when federal officials determined the carrier was responsible for nearly two-thirds of all the minimum fuel or fuel-emergency incidents reported annually by airliners landing in Newark.

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Lifeline users have been a source of subscriber growth in the otherwise saturated U.S. market and helped fuel the expansion of companies like TracFone, now the fifth-largest U.S. wireless carrier.

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The carrier had previously planned an offering for the middle of last year but delayed it after high fuel costs and airport charges caused it to abandon loss-making flights to London, Paris and two Indian cities in March 2012.

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