big airlines now lose money.near 1 billion each . (BA, AF, JAL, Qantas,AA...)
Damn, I must have missed that loss during the British Airways quarterly report as the accountants were too busy talking about the profit the company made!
How stupid of them!
BA hit a 10% operating margin this quarter with revenues up across the board. IAG dipped to 5.8% over all with the losses from Iberia.
Please don't post 'throw away' figures that aren't true.
As to the Aircraft manufactures 'predictions' they don't take into account aircraft downtime, maintenance, crewing levels, rosters etc. etc. etc. They place a crewing figure per hull and an annual utilisation rate per hull and then multiply that by the predicited number of hull sales per annum.
Most certainly not scientific and almost certainly way over optimistic.