Originally Posted by
Australopithecus
I see how you did the math, but a SYD-MEL flight chews up 3,600 kgs, 1185 gallons. At $3.50 per, thats 41 passengers tickets for fuel. Even poorly paid crew would cost Rex another 9 passenger tickets.
The 1.4 hour block time SYD-MEL means about 10 tickets for leasing. Your quoted rate seems very low though.
We are in furious agreement about their cash bleed, but I am less optimistic.
Okey doke, thanks for that. I was using 2,275 kg for SYD-MEL; I can't recall where I got that figure. For future reference, what would you use for an average fuel burn per hour for an -800.
And yes, I have used an absolute bare bones number for leasing. I can recall Sharpie spruiking something like $100K a month at some point early in proceedings so I just padded that marginally.