600 x $60 in extra fuel burn = $36000 a day x 365 days = $13,140,000 a year in extra fuel burn
Now it depends on if you are paying the bill or flying the aircraft how that affects you
Why stop there? Why not say $131,400,000 over 10 years!
This is just the accountants way of making it sound so bad that they can apply pressure on us to take less fuel.
But do the math the other way.
Let's say those 600 flights carry an average of 180 passengers.
The additional $60 in extra fuel burn, divided by 180 passengers equates to only 33 cents extra per passenger.
That has to be the cheapest insurance in the world!!!
And on top of that, how about the bean counters actually calculate how much money was saved by those pilots who carried a little extra fuel and avoided the necessity to divert early, and all the associated costs that were avoided by using a little common sense (meals & accommodation, additional crew due to flight time limitations, additional fuel to actually get to the original destination.....)