Originally Posted by
Icarus2001
I hear this quite a lot. By what measure "most profitable"? Do you have a source for this information?
Virgin were flying this "most profitable route" before they went bankrupt, did not seem to help.
Pre-pandemic, SYD-MEL was ranked the number two most profitable route in the world according Forbes (
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominic...h=62072006963a).
Sounds about right on a straight revenue dollar/km flown basis.
Of course, given sufficient aptitude and application, it wouldn't be difficult to stuff that up. Revenue is one thing, costs are an entirely different matter.