Originally Posted by
2StgTurbine
Go back and read the posts. When someone changes the cost index and you see it’s going to add 400 lbs more of fuel, do you express that in pounds or dollars? Do you know the price of fuel your airline was charged for at that airport? Do you know if your airline singed a fuel contract at a fixed price for that airport? Do you know if your airline gets a rebate at the end of the year? I just find it hard to believe that a pilot on here actually knows when another pilot made a $500 mistake. The price of fuel is too opaque to measure such a small amount.
Company used to publish the average fuel price. Either monthly or quarterly. Never saw it below $0.30/lbs, don't recall seeing it above $0.40/lbs but it might have been. It's pretty easy math if you SWAG the price at $0.33/lbs, every 100 lbs is $33 and 300 lbs is $100. No one's running to get a calculator to see if the $33 savings/cost is really $30 or if it's $40. Go-around burned 3000 lbs? That's $1000. Yeah, I've done that math because it's simple math. Every minute that you start down early, prior to the optimum profile, is roughly $100 in a w/b. Maybe cut that in half for a n/b.