“The heart beat of an airline CEO increases and decreases with the price of fuel,” says Tewolde Gebremariam the CEO of Ethiopian Airlines in an interview in the next issue of Airline Economics. “The first thing the CEO of an airline does every morning is to monitor the global fuel price.” In the interview, Gebremariam also bemoans the impact speculators have on the global oil price, a topic also close to the heart of Tom Hendricks, vice-president of operations and safety at lobbying group Air Transport Association of America (ATA). At the Aviation Week MRO Americas show in Miami, Hendricks called

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