Your $69 might have been on Ifly, I'can't find a ticket that cheap in Delta!
Just searched JFK-TPA, one way, and the date that was already on by default... Dec. 19, on www.delta.com
$67.70
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Your $69 might have been on Ifly, I'can't find a ticket that cheap in Delta!
BigPappa said:Back to basics! Too many financial analysts are trying to reinvent the wheel in the aviation industry. The fact remains that it’s still just a matter of simple arithmetic. Let’s compare a CRJ 200 in this example: The Total operating cost of this RJ is approx. $2400.00 per hour. You can figure that the average ticket costs approx. $350.00 per person (call it a round trip). At our company the average CRJ flight is approx. 1.3 hr. Load factor most of the time is 23 or better. In this case (3120/175=17.8) the load to required to break even is 18 pax. With this in mind you can say that we are making money most of time for our big Mother!
DirkkDiggler said:I think "Ben Dover" hit this one, but it probably went over most everybody's heads. The RJ's don't have to make a profit on a leg by leg basis. They provide feed to a mainline hub, where those passengers board other mainline flights all over the world. That's why US Air flies into Erie, PA 6-8 times a day with flights leaving an average of half full (on a good day). They are trying to lure everyone who flies out of Erie into Philly or Pitt so they can carry on to anywhere else US Airways flies. The RJ isn't required to make a profit from Erie to Pitt in order for it to be considered a success by mainline. It just has to snag those Erie passengers and funnel them into the US Airways system.