That $195/sector cost translates into around $7m/year. Cut that wastage out and save a fortune. Moreover, it nicely illustrates the essential nature of doing everything possible to really reduce fuel consumption and to thus reduce your fuel cost – not just when fuel’s bloody expensive, but at all times. If you seek to maximise operational efficiency – which is evidently a fundamental requirement – actively tackling your fuel comsumption and thus fuel cost must obviously always be of major importance.
While we’re on the topic of cost reduction, perhaps FR pilots will receive a pay cut ( 
): with the present state of the industry, the demand for pilots will reduce with every capacity reduction so FR will be in a stronger negotiation
position. Not that FR pilots, particularly captains and training captains, earn much ( 
): http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/about.php?page=Jobs&sec=careers&ref=app_benefits
Last edited by JulietNovemberPapa; 4th Jun 2008 at 17:52.