Originally Posted by
Boomer
I don't buy the "too many people burns too much fuel" argument. We have 162 seats on a 320 and we're charging $200 a seat. Frontier has another 30 seats on the same aircraft and they're charging $80 a seat.
If we're losing money putting 162 souls on that plane, Frontier must be losing money so much faster than we are. Is Frontier blocking 50 or 60 seats on their flights? Don't think so.
I agree with you, but you don’t even have to look at other airlines. If B6 sells 151 seats and that’s enough to pay for the aircraft lease and labor and fuel and everything else (turn a profit), why would the next 11 seats sold not be enough to cover just the additional fuel to carry them? It just doesn’t make sense to me.