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[bvt1151]

Oh believe me I understand what one time fees are. It's all part of being an independent carrier. When was the last time ASA/CMR had a one time fee put on their useless DOT numbers? DAL has used them extensively to post losses. Yet despite these one time fees, our CASM is about 10.32, including a onetime fee of $1.65B as opposed to Indy's 22cents and we were opertaionally profitable last quarter. I guess paying these one time fees is the responsibility of the mainline at DAL. We wouldn't want to burden ASA/CMR with the actual costs of doing business. As the former DAL CFO said, CMR only pays for their operational costs, DAL pays everything else.

Actually Delta did not include the one-time fee into their casm calculations like Indy did. With Q2 operating costs of $4.202 billion and ASM's of 38.620 billion, Delta operated with a system-wide casm of 10.88 cents. When you include the one-time payment of $1.534 billion, Delta's casm suddenly becomes 14.85 cents. Now see the difference?

 

[737 Pylt]

Why does the RJ become immediately unprofitable the moment a mainline pilots flies it? Are RJs very profitable or not?

Because it makes a nice spin, rjdc style! Besides, didn't you know mainline pilots are the antichrist?!? We are the problem with the industry.
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