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by jjmarr
40 days ago
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There's not a single major US airline that is profitable on charging passengers for tickets and flying them to destinations. United is the closest, with only a 0.04¢ loss on every seat mile.[1] the other airlines lose 1-2¢/mile. The jets are a loss leader for credit cards. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/big-airlines-lost-money-flyin... [1] There's two metrics airlines report: Cost per Available Seat Mile and Passenger Revenue per Available Seat Mile. This is the cost/revenue for flying a seat, which may or may not be occupied by a person, to a destination. If the seat is empty it gets $0 in revenue but still costs money. You can calculate the profit made from selling tickets per seat mile by PRASM - CASM. |
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