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Old 07-12-2020 | 03:01 PM
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Im not saying we aren’t losing money, but the $4 million I believe is DEFINITELY outdated. They can’t disclose any financial info to us until they disclose it to the investors, so until the next investor conference call (what have you) we won’t know for sure, but there is almost no way we are still losing $4 million a day.

My understanding was the $4 million a day number was back when we had our whole fleet Parked and flying 56 flts a day. Obviously things have improved drastically from those early dark days.

Last trip I was averaging 35 bags a leg. I don’t know what our checked bag fee is (maybe the price changes on those depending on when you buy them as well), but let’s assume $35. That is $1225. Maybe that is part of the $27 per pax that was factored in above scenario. Either way some flights bag money is nearly covering fuel.

I was in LAX a couple days ago. There were 5 NK birds there and one guy waiting for a gate behind us. T5 packed. Great to see.

Finally, I know there is talk of supposedly mass cancellations of bookings. Not really sure what to believe. ORD sold something like 1,000 seats 24 hours (yesterday - Saturday) for today’s flights.

I start a 3 day tomorrow. I’ll keep track of LF, bags and our fuel costs and see how we did.
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