Alderney flight costs
I keep reading comments elsewhere that Aurigny's flights to Alderney are expensive (they vary between £46 and £61 for a one way journey), and started to wonder whether this really was the case or whether the prices that the large lccs manage to charge, presumably with subsidies, just make it seem that the prices are way too high. I have no inside information to help me with this, but managed to find some of the costs that the airline will have to pay when running the service on the internet.
Assuming 12 passengers per flight GCI/ACI:
ACI short haul landing / taking off £6 per tonne or part thereof .... £42 .... per passenger £3.50
ACI per passenger £2.30.
ACI per passenger security £2.19
ACI parking £27.67 .... per passenger ... £2.30
GCI short haul landing / taking off £5.16 per tonne or part thereof .... £36.12 .... per passenger £3.01
GCI per passenger £0.90.
GCI per passenger security £2.5
GCI parking £28.16 .... per passenger ... £2.34
Pilots: Assume 4 pilots per Dornier @£55k p.a., and 10 flights per day .... £60 per flight ... £5 per passenger (a guess)
Similar amount for ground handling .... £5 per passenger (a guess)
Insurance - £40,000 pa ... £1 per person / flight
Fuel .... £22.50 ... £1.87 per passenger
Total so far .... £31.01 per passenger per flight.
Maintenance ????
Depreciation of aircraft ????
Ticketing, office costs, etc ????
Any thoughts and/or additions to my rough figures?