What does he want, exactly?
It's like meta-Sarkozy - there's a lot of self-importance, drama and grand-standing, but I'm not seeing any specific suggestions to deal with anything much.
Bisignani
The forecast uses a consensus oil price of US$106.5 per barrel crude (Brent). This is a swing of US$6.8 billion from the previously forecasted industry profit of US$4.5 billion that was announced in March and based on an average oil price of US$86 per barrel (Brent).
vs
For every dollar that the oil price increases, we add US$1.6 billion to costs. If we see US$135 oil for the rest of the year, losses could be US$6.1 billion,"
According to that last sentence costs should increase by more than $45 billion over the original estimate at $106.5/bl. But the new loss is $6 billion?
Is it too much to expect a CEO to produce numbers which add up without moving decimal points around for PR reasons?
I'd guess 5 million staff globally in aircraft design, manufacturing, flight operations, sky control, airports, airfreight logistics etc. The other 27 mill must be those dependent on air travel to do their job. You can't be me, I'm taken
