LONDON , England ( CNN ) -- This month , CNN Business Traveller takes an in-depth look at how the aviation industry is faring as global fuel prices continue to rise . End of the line : the commercial airline graveyard in the Mojave Desert outside Los Angeles . Job losses , losing weight off aircraft , increasing fuel surcharges and retiring old aircraft are options being considered and implemented . Host Richard Quest opens the program in the Mojave Desert , just outside Los Angeles , known as the aircraft graveyard , where retired airliners end up . Old vintage planes like Pan Am and DC-9s , as well as 747s and 737s are all gathered here , and the aircraft are dismantled before their parts are sold . Quest reports on how one particular airline is weathering the storm - Richard Branson 's Virgin Group , and he also looks at the low cost sector . Watch the show . » . The World Low Cost Carriers Conference in London provides him with the opportunity to meet key CEOs including Tony Davis from Tiger Airways , Brett Godfrey from Virgin Blue and Tony Fernandes from Air Asia . It 's not just the aviation industry that is feeling the grip of the credit crunch , however : the hotels are beginning to feel the impact too . Demand is down and subsequently rates are lower . Quest asks Andy Cosslett , CEO of the Intercontinental Group , how his hotels are having to adapt in order to remain profitable .
This month 's show examines how airlines are faring as global fuel prices rise . The show is presented from the Mojave desert , the commercial airline graveyard . ]] And we find out how hotels are reacting to the global credit crunch .