Originally Posted by
flyingpuma1
Good point I should have done the math so in this case for a flight like the above ($20 x150=3000) the company made $1600 dollars after paying for fuel (4600). But then you have to pay for landing fee/pilots/fa's/and whatever we pay for outsourced gate agents. So *maybe* the company would break even on that flight which is great, but then we still have planes parked that we are paying for. Compared with what a lot of airlines are losing a day 4 million isn't bad, but it's also not great.
That $1600 assumes halved ancillary revenues and exaggerated fuel prices. Payroll is made for the crews, and we don’t pay our contracted gate agents or crews much. But let’s assume that we only made $500 for the flight after all costs. X3 flights per plane x 120 operating planes. That’s $180,000 a day to pay for 20-30 parked planes.
Does it cost $6000 a day to park a plane? I don’t know, but if it were really a problem we’d have already parked the paid for 319’s and started running the planes with payments.
Again. That’s with grossly exaggerated costs versus revenue and assumes minimal ticket prices for every seat. Realistically that 321 leg I flew probably made $5-6000. For one leg. At rock bottom ticket prices with nearly 50 empty seats. Clearly things aren’t great, and I won’t try to pump that sunshine. I’ve flown sever 20-40 pax flights too as well as some sold out birds. But some basic math will tell you that many of our flights are handily breaking even. Particularly with payroll being taken care of by Uncle Sam.