I don,t know why you think it surprising that aviation industry journals should tell the truth about peak oil. Civil aviation has already see twice what higher fuel costs can do and, now, many of us expect that the lessons of permanently higher fuel costs will be disastrous, especially for US carriers where the majority are in Chapter 11 bankrupcy.
 I used to work for the Heathrow Flying Circus as a planning manager and later Commercial Economist. The European airlines were generally united in seeing the problem of peak oil - which is why there was no airline objections to state aid for High Speed Rail developments in Europe. We saw rail as the future for short haul travel, with whatever fuel is left devoted to Inter-continental routes which have no alternatives.
Today, the European Parliament approved a paper that called for special taxes on airlines to reduce their contribution to global warming. The EU Parliament does not make laws but it does influence the Commission which does. And the Commission will now react.
The people who will be worst affected are the discount carriers. Because their wages are low and there marketing cots are negligible, fuel represents a higher percentage of total costs. Yet Ryanair, Europes biggest discounter, ordered 10 more Boeings yesterday to bring it's total orders to 249 aircraft. They and Boeing are going to learn a very hard lesson.