The company's $5 billion, 2,500-mile-long West-East Gas Pipeline opened last year after the project was shunned by foreign partners on worries that the government would set unprofitable price levels and demand wouldn't absorb output.
Fuel surcharges, airport taxes, excess-baggage fees and the ever-popular miscellaneous charges help make up for the seemingly unprofitable ticket prices.
Because the company is unprofitable, the price-to-earnings ratio is of no use here.
Airlines are retiring these planes because they are unprofitable as oil prices climb.
In addition to the direct effect on fuel costs, the I.A.T.A. said, the airline industry is at risk of becoming unprofitable if oil prices rise enough to hurt the global economy.
Burned in the past by price spikes that proved ephemeral, the oil industry has become extremely reluctant to invest in wells that would be unprofitable at low prices, so it has none to reopen now.
China, a one-time oil exporter that now must import half its oil to lubricate its booming economy, is facing politically troublesome shortages of fuel from Shenzhen to Beijing, as Chinese refining companies refuse to supply diesel at unprofitable state-regulated prices.
At the start of this week, Malcolm Webb, chief executive of Oil and Gas UK, said "a significant amount" of UK oil and gas production was becoming unprofitable at current prices.
At a $90 per barrel oil price, this technology could be unprofitable for a modest price of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions because of its substantially higher carbon intensity.
