Be glad you (likely) work in technology. I spent a few minutes tonight poking around JetBlue's 2008 10-K filing. I was interested in distilling down a revenue-per-user (RPU) number for the airline. I have mentioned JetBlue unwittingly helping a domainer before. And while the new T5 at JFK is a giant step up in overall quality, execution, usability and plain old logic & reason compared to anything else at JFK, I whole-heartedly agree with Patrick Smith's T5 assessment on AskThePilot.
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.
