Thanks for the feed back. I know it is a best guess. I have the sim on the 11th in ATL. Hopefully it will go well.
Back to days off how many are the URL guys averaging or is mngmt filling the lines so everybody gets 14 off a month.
Thx

 

From prune:

A difference of 24 J Class tickets @ AED 33400 return. One sector AED 16700 X 24 = AED 400,800.00.
60 Tonne difference is 48 000 liters. (SG of 0.8)
Surely Jet A1 doesn't cost AED 8.35 per liter.

Now there's a difference of 2 First Class seats granted they are probably not used, but all the same that's another AED 45430.00

Oh yes,then the cattle in the lower deck. That would be an extra 92 @ AED 6570.00 return. Thats a cool AED 302,220.00 one way.

All tolled up this is Aed 748,450.00. I'm very glad that some of my very well informed colleagues are not running this airline, as they would have you believe that we should not spend an extra 60 tonnes of gas to make that money. This weeks IATA average fuel price is $1015.50/metric tonne which would be $48,744.00 (AED179,037.70). FBO prices at $2.00/ltr would be $96000.00. (AED352 609.93)

At IATA prices (excluding hedging) the 380 makes about AED 568000.00 more money.
At FBO prices, this is reduced to AED395,000.00.

Today's flight from JFK incidentally took 8/75/377.
No difference first class.
22 Difference Bussiness (excluding 1 staff) = AED367,400.00
70 Difference economy = AED 229,950.00

TOTAL AED 597350.00

My figures are straight off the Emirates web site, I'm sure they are probably out by a bit. I'm willing to bet though that the 380 is not the money wasting beast it is made out to be.

 

Ahh, but how much freight did that A380 full of passengers and their baggage carry?

The answer is probably less than 5 tonnes, while the similar B777 could carry 20 tonnes. 15 tonnes more freight revenue is also a lot of money. At 10 dirhams a kilo that would be 150,000 dirhams, at 20 dirhams a kilo it would be 300,000 dirhams. Not sure what EK charges for freight, but I bet 20 dirhams per kilo would be on the low side. This while burning much less fuel.



Typhoonpilot

 

TP I finished the sim in ATL Michele said see you in the sand box. I am assuming that is a good thing. Can you tell me if URL guys are flying 12 days a month or is mngmnt filling there line in with turns two bring them up to 16 work days a month.
thx

 

Turtle, Can you tell me if everybody is 14 days off. I have heard mngmnt is filling lines with turns to bring them to 14 days off a month. even the url guys.?
thx

 

Congrats on getting through the sim.

What's URL?

Do you mean ULR ( ultra long haul )? There really isn't such a thing as a ULR guy. One can only get 2 ULR trips per month from the bid which means they will fly some other trips, often turn arounds, to fill the month.

There is no way anybody can ever give you a look at a normal roster. They just don't exist. You might look at some top bid month lines and see some really nice rosters. Four months later you look at the same guys bottom bid month roster and it's pretty poor.


Typhoonpilot

 

Hey Carolinajet.... I'm going over there Oct4/5 when or are you going over?

 

Hey Machspeed, I'm heading over there 4th/5th as well. Where are you flying out of?

 

Johng723, SFO. Is there a way to PM here? If not, do you have a ************* account?

 

Machspeed, I do have an account over there, same username