Mayiko a Continental Airlines Inc. ndi American Airlines kholo AMR Corp. adatsogolera kutsika pakati pa onyamulira aku US pambuyo pa data ya February kuwonetsa mitengo ndi kutsika kwa maulendo.
Continent idatsika ndi 17 peresenti, kwambiri kuyambira Okutobala, ndipo AMR idatsika kwambiri kuyambira Epulo 2003 pomwe akatswiri akuti makampani atha kukakamizidwa kuti achepetse malo okhala chifukwa kugwa kwamitengo kungachotse phindu lotsika mtengo wamafuta.
"Kuopsa kwa kugwa kwachuma kukukhudza magawo onse aulendo," Jim Corridore, katswiri wa Standard & Poor ku New York, adatero m'makalata kwa osunga ndalama lero. Adapereka ndalama zake pa Delta Air Lines Inc., yomwe ili ku Atlanta, yomwe ndiyonyamula kwambiri padziko lonse lapansi, kuti "igule" kuchokera ku "kugula mwamphamvu."
Continental, ndege yachinayi yayikulu kwambiri ku US, idataya $ 1.60 mpaka $ 8 pa 4:01 pm ku New York Stock Exchange yamagulu amalonda, pomwe No. mpaka 2 $.
UAL Corp., kholo la No. 3 United Airlines, adatsitsa masenti 32, kapena 7.5 peresenti, mpaka $ 3.94 pa malonda a Nasdaq Stock Market. Slide ya 8.1 peresenti ya Bloomberg US Airlines Index idatsika kwambiri kuposa 1 peresenti ya Dow Jones Industrial Average ndi Standard & Poor's 500 Index.
"Msika ukuwoneka kuti ukuwona kuti bizinesi yonse ikuyandikira kulephera," adatero Jamie Baker, katswiri wa JPMorgan Chase & Co. "Sitimagwirizana kwambiri."
Mitengo Yokongola
Magawo a ndege ali pamitengo yokongola pambuyo pa kugwa kwa chaka chatha, ndipo palibe zizindikiro za kukwera kwatsopano kwa mitengo ya jet-mafuta, Baker wa ku New York analemba m'makalata. Mafuta a jet atsika ndi 72 peresenti kuyambira mbiri ya Julayi.
Continental and Southwest Airlines Co., onyamula zotsika mtengo kwambiri, onse adati dzulo dzulo kuti magalimoto adatsika mu February.
Ku Continental yochokera ku Houston, ndalama zopezeka pampando uliwonse zidatsika mtunda wa kilomita imodzi mumayendedwe ake akuluakulu a jet zidatsika mpaka 10.5 peresenti, kupitilira kutsika kwa 8 peresenti kuchokera kwa Hunter Keay, katswiri wa Stifel Nicolaus & Co., ndi 7 peresenti ya Helane Becker. Malingaliro a kampani Jesup & Lamont Securities Corp.
Kufewetsa kufunikira, makamaka pakati pa oyenda bizinesi, kwapangitsa kuti pakhale "kusamala" pazachuma chaka chino, Dallas-based Southwest idatero. Baker adati ndalama zaku Southwest pachaka pampando uliwonse zikuwonetsa kutsika pafupifupi 3 peresenti mu February.
Kumwera chakumadzulo, komwe kukuchepetsa kuchuluka kwa mipando chaka chino kwa nthawi yoyamba kuyambira 1988, kudatsika ndi masenti 29, kapena 5.3 peresenti, kufika pa $5.23, mtengo wake wotsika kwambiri kuyambira Julayi 1997.
