Originally Posted by
Hawaii808
with $39 fares, that probably doesn’t even pay for the crews wages. Add 2-4k pounds of fuel and there’s no way that’s accurate.
As the only competitor interisland it makes sense to compare load factors regardless of seat capacity. The 737 max is definitely not the right aircraft for the market.
Most of the time when I operate a flight from the mainland, we land somewhere with enough fuel to operate two or three legs without fueling. I literally did this last week. Flew in with one inter-island leg on the back side. Came into work the next day, and to my surprise, it was the same plane with the same fuel we landed with for another inter island flight and enough for another after that. I’m not arguing it’s the best plane for the market, but somehow AW is making it work.