But back to the numbers:
- JetBlue reported $3.39B in 2008 revenue, or ~$9.3M per day.
- JetBlue has 600 flights per day, so that's
- About $15,500 per flight.
- JetBlue flies 107 A320s with ~150 seats and 35 Embraer 190s with ~100 seats.
- Assuming 120 purchased seats per flight:
- JetBlue makes an average of ~$130 per seat purchased,
- Which is about in-line with getting a good deal on an airfare.
$15,000 sounds pretty cheap to fuel up the plane, stock it with service items, get the people on-board, fly them somewhere, land, get all the people off, and pay the salaries of the gate agents and flight-crew - to say nothing of maintenance, depreciation, and capital costs.
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Funny, I just read this now (I'm way behind on my feeds). Nice post though.
This is a fascinating post! You're like a combo of sleuth and mathematician, like the characters on MathNet (remember that show?)
It's hard for me to imagine what it was like to be a reporter prior to when SEC filings became available online. Glad to see non-journalists are also exercising their rights to dig through 10-Ks and the like. It's kinda fun, right?
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