Originally Posted by jsled

mostly just threw them out there. BUT. If you agree that it costs 100 lbs of gas to carry an extra 1000 lbs of gas, and everybody threw on 1000 lbs for the wife and kids, that's 100 lbs per flight x 3000 flights per day x 365 days per year: 109.5M lbs of gas. Divide by 6.7 lbs per gallon. 16.3M gallons. x $3 per gallon is $49M. Just a wag.

$9000 (average) per divert seems reasonable to me (fuel, misconnects, overtime). 1300 diverts last year x $9000 is $11.7M.