Feds: Obesity Raising Airline Fuel Costs
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ATLANTA - Heavy suitcases aren't the only things weighing down airplanes and requiring them to burn more fuel, pushing up the cost of flights. A new government study reveals that airlines increasingly have to worry more about the weight of their passengers.
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Qantas Airways has raised its fuel surcharge on domestic and international tickets by $4 and $7, respectively, because of the high price of oil.
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As airlines look for new sources of revenue to offset rising fuel costs, more carriers are turning planes into marketing vehicles.
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UAL Corp  said on Friday its United Airlines unit doubled its fuel surcharge on most domestic U.S. flights to $10 from $5, to counter a recent rise in oil prices.
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Blaming a computer software error, the government Wednesday admitted overstating the nation's weight problem in a widely reported study last year that said obesity was about to overtake smoking as the No. 1 cause of death in the United States.
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UAL Corp. UALAQ.OB , the parent of  United Airlines, said on Friday it would raise its existing $10  each-way fuel surcharge by an additional $5 due to soaring fuel  costs.
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British Airways is to increase its fuel surcharge as a result of the continuing rise in the price of oil. The airline said its longhaul surcharge on all UK bookings will rise from Â£6 ($10.
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A widely reported study released earlier this year overstated the increase in obesity-related U.S. deaths by about 35,000, a U.S. government health agency said on Tuesday in admitting the miscalculation.
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British Airways is to raise its fuel surcharge as a result of the continuing increase in the price of oil.
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A study shows how an increase in soft drink consumption may be linked with obesity and type 2 diabetes. In recent years, both diabetes and obesity have increased dramatically in the USA.
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Fuel costs for international and domestic flights have soared $560 million above last year, the national carrier said yesterday. Hedging, the means by which airlines insure against rising fuel costs, had fallen
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The growing number of obese Americans and the rising cost of caring for them is responsible for 27 percent of the increase in health-care costs since 1987, according to a study in the journal Health Affairs.
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Major U.S. airlines on Tuesday rolled back a fuel surcharge increase aimed at offsetting soaring oil prices as consumers balk at higher ticket prices and worries over the health of the economy grow.
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A fare hike that raises tickets by $5  each way announced by American Airlines earlier this week to  offset record high jet fuel appears to be sticking among other  U.S. airlines, an industry source said on Friday.
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American Airlines, United Airlines and US Airways  doubled their fuel surcharges to $40 from $20 on domestic roundtrip tickets over the weekend, matching a move by Continental Airlines  last week.
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INDIANAPOLIS - Insurance companies should fund programs to help people lose weight with exercise programs and diet counseling to try to curb increasing health costs related to obesity, a doctor said.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- US airlines, hammered by soaring oil prices, will spend a staggering $5 billion more on fuel this year than they did in 2003 or even a greater sum, draining already thin cash reserves.