Your total pilot cost calculations are a bit off. You have to add back into the numbers the amount of times a pilot gets paid and is not generating revenue. This includes credit hours, canceled flights and trips, sick time, vacation, reroutes to lower time rotations, Weather and other cancellations ect. Then you have to add in the total cost to provide reserve coverage for each flight. Then the costs for pilots on disability and retirement expenses. Your cost projections then go up quite a bit. The actual number you should use is the percent of pilot costs verses overall cost to fly a passenger from A to B. Its currently about 8 percent at Delta. So if a passenger is paying 100 dollars for a leg then 8 of its goes to the pilots.