Originally Posted by
flyingpuma1
Well to start with we still have a lot of planes parked and it cost money to have them parked somewhere. Also depends on how much they are charging for tickets. If they are only charging $20 even if it’s full that’s not enough to cover gas. Don’t forget we don’t own most our planes so there are payments for those as well. Honestly I’m surprised we aren’t losing more money.
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$20x 150 is $3000. $27 ( half our average ancillary revenue per pax) is $4050. My less than super fuel efficient A321 burned something like 2300 gallons on a pretty average leg today. At $2/ gallon, and it isn’t anything like that, that would be $4600 against $7050. Even spotting really low ticket prices and half our average ancillary revenue we handily covered the cost of grossly exaggerated fuel costs.
But the reality is that we had closer to 180 pax onboard that leg today, and even with some reduced ancillary revenue we probably grossed $10-11000 on the flight. $12000+ if we managed average ancillary revenues.
All that to say that some basic math will put to rest some fears about us covering costs to operate many of our flights.