Originally Posted by
nuball5
Other majors have the same risk going in and out of LGA for instance. Plenty of airports with short runways that is operated by mainline. Europe gets plenty of storms where you can find some interesting YouTube videos of planes landing…..didn’t see Southwest.
The point isn't that the other majors don't ever fly a garbage schedul, into snow on a short runway, or late/early hours. It's that due to the fact that we operate a significant margin of flights more per year, re inherently take on more risk than our peers at other airlines. We fly more people on more flights.
The revenue side is harder to figure out because 4 fights with 175 for 2 hours each with 2 pilots doesn't necessarily equate to the revenue/cost balance dictated by 1 flight with 300 people for 8 hours with 3 pilots. Harder because we may fly more people, but fewer premium passengers, but we also touch more people which gives more opportunity for ancillary revenue such as credit cards, early boarding, etc.