[victorology]

Is this taking account full occupancy? If the flight is only 70% booked, wouldn't the fuel surcharge per passenger by higher?

[johansch]

The passenger load factor has generally been going up since 2008. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways#Business_trend...

[notahacker]

Still a valid point when the gallons per passenger calculation is likely based on a full load, and his flight was more likely to have had an 80% load than a full load.

[himynamesdave]

Analysis does assume flight are operating at 100% capacity, which is likely to be improbable. But here's a thought; would airlines charge higher fuel surcharges p/pax for routes with lower ave. pax:capacity?