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by JumpCrisscross 1836 days ago
> How much of the cost of a flight is fuel?

Better question: what fraction of airline's margins could one explain with the variation of passengers' weights? Airlines' pre-tax margins are low [1]. Almost any factor, meaningless or meaningful, will look tiny relative to revenues or costs.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/225856/ebit-margin-of-co...