maintenance and pilot surcharges
OK, if I was CE(O) I would have the following surcharges.
Fuel surcharge...cause it is so goddamned expensive and no other industry has fuel costs.
Maintenance surcharge...cause it is so goddamned expensive and no other industry has maintenance costs.
Pilot/cabin crew/ground staff surcharge...cause it is so goddamned expensive and no other industry has staff costs.
Route operating costs surcharge....cause it is so goddamned expensive and no other industry has operating costs.
Inflight catering....cause it is so goddamned expensive and no other industry has service costs.
Advertising surcharge....cause it is so goddamned expensive and no other industry has advertising costs.
With all these surcharges I would be happy to announce that I would no longer charge anything for staff travel...ID00!!! But of course you would have to pay these surcharges...so cost of HKG-SYD-HKG(in EY) would be about $6,000HKD!
On a less sarcastic note, it costs about $25US for an Oz return flight in additional fuel burn. In flt meal....hmmm...not much. It costs around $125US in FUEL SURCHARGE on the return trip...so not counting ID90component, the fuel surcharge has already paid for fuel, the meal and any taxes! The rest (which includes the ID90 payment and the airport taxes) is profit.
Which non number cruncher decided that I pay 100% of parts of the cost of doing business and ID90 for the rest? Airport taxes and fuel are just components of the cost of running an airline as are staff/maintenance/route operating expenses.
About 2 years ago they made it illegal in oz to separate the various costs of ticket prices...wish that would happen in HKG! DT said a few years back that 3% of all pax are staff....seats that would have been empty, subject to payload...huge profit source!