Originally Posted by
Australopithecus
They aren’t clearing $9/pax because there’s still the other $10,000/hr expenses to cover. So a Mel-Syd has something like a $14,640 loss. So they are probably planning to lose a tonne of money on every flight and make it up with frequency. Oh wait...
Their leases are 25k per month for each aircraft. Is that quite cheap? Understandably that is only one cost of many.