Originally Posted by Jetjok

If you think that the bean counters (or crew schedulers for that matter) will loose one minutes sleep over how much it "cost" to operate that trip, you've got another think coming. The salaries paid to operate a full (of freight) jet is almost nothing at all. It almost doesn't even factor into the net profit for the trip because it's such a small amount. So 3 times (almost) nothing is still about nothing. It's sad but true.