Originally Posted by
povertyeagle
The A220 averages a burn of 1,400lbs less per hour than a 320NEO. At JB utilization levels it burns about 3,000 gallons less per plane, per day.
Carrying 50% fewer passengers.
At a nominal $3 per gallon you are carrying 50% more passengers on every trip for an incremental cost of $9000 per day.
Given the fixed costs of a second fleet in training, sims, parts and maintenance logistics, I’m not sure a $9000 a day fuel savings actually justifies the second type and outside of one FA, there are really no personnel savings. Well, a couple bucks an hour on the A220 vs A320 pilot rate I guess. I suppose you could make the case for ONLY flying the A220, but any airline having a fleet of 300 or so of those is well in the future whereas NK and B6 both have an order book of 320 variants lined up and a sunk investment in existing spares and training.