They were already taking enormous heat for previous fuel price increases.
Among populations with high poverty, fuel price increases threaten to cause civil unrest.
The effect was reduced by $150 million through hedges, contracts intended to offset fuel price increases, the airline said.
In December, Bolivia had to rescind fuel price increases less than a week after announcing them, after violent protests.
The most recent uprising, led by monks in 2007, began as small protests over fuel price increases.
During the September 2013 protests in Sudan over fuel price increases, during which as many as 200 protesters were killed, a Sudanese government website was defaced.
Pierre-Henri Gourgeon, finance director of the company, said that it could not pass the full cost of fuel price increases to its customers.
In reasonably prosperous Malaysia, the ruling coalition was nearly ousted by voters who cited food and fuel price increases as their main concerns.
Governments frequently fall when they allow food prices to rise, for example, and we have seen in the UK the powerful reaction to fuel price increases.
Those most vulnerable to fuel price increases are people on fixed incomes, like retirees, and the working poor, most of whom receive little or no state assistance.
It combined regular interviews with a study of the impact on each household of benefit changes, pension reforms, social care cuts and fuel price increases.
