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What Are Current Per Seat Per Mile Costs?

Alexinwa From United States of America, joined Sep 2000, 1107 posts, RR: 0
Posted (9 years 3 months 2 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 3585 times:

I'm not sure if I'm saying that right. But the average cost per seat per mile for the airlines is what I am looking for. Thanks!

I read WN was somewhere around .07 cents per mile. Should right?

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B747-437B From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 1, posted (9 years 3 months 2 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 3577 times:

The CASM for every airline can be found in their last earnings report. You can get accurate info for each of them there.

Delta-flyer From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 2676 posts, RR: 7
Reply 2, posted (9 years 3 months 2 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 3507 times:

Look on the airline's web site, under Investor Relations, then find their latest annual report or SEC filing.

Pete

Mariner From New Zealand, joined Nov 2001, 22698 posts, RR: 88
Reply 3, posted (9 years 3 months 2 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 3485 times:

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Alexinwa:

You are correct. WN's CASM is around 7 cents. Jetblue is slightly less, the other LCC's are slightly more.

The legacy carriers generally have higher CASM's. UAL's last reported was just under 10 cents. US Airways is just over 10 cents.

But then you have to work out if that CASM includes or excludes fuel. Because fuel prices are a changing variable, airlines will often quote CASM - ex fuel - and then give the figure including fuel.

Frontier's last report gave their CASM was just under 7 cents - ex fuel - but if you include fuel at its present high prics, then their CASM was just over 8.

cheers

mariner

aeternum nauta

QANTAS747-438 From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 1800 posts, RR: 2
Reply 4, posted (9 years 3 months 2 weeks 4 hours ago) and read 3446 times:

I'm not sure if I understand this right... If an airline has a per seat/per mile cost of $.07 per mile, and if flight A is 1000 miles long, it would cost the airline $70 to fly one passenger?

My posts/replies are strictly my opinion and not that of any company, organization, or Southwest Airlines.

Artsyman From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 4741 posts, RR: 43
Reply 5, posted (9 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 3434 times:

If an airline has a per seat/per mile cost of $.07 per mile, and if flight A is 1000 miles long, it would cost the airline $70 to fly one passenger?
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That's correct, but these days people are complaining about spending $70 dollars to fly transatlantic in first class.

QANTAS747-438 From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 1800 posts, RR: 2
Reply 6, posted (9 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 3393 times:

Wow, thanks Artsyman. So if a 1000 mi journey costs around $220 such as LAX-SEA, then it really would cost $70 for a profit of $150! That's almost as bad as CD's costing $.02 to make and selling for $15!

My posts/replies are strictly my opinion and not that of any company, organization, or Southwest Airlines.

Artsyman From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 4741 posts, RR: 43
Reply 7, posted (9 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 3390 times:

Except that you are missing quite a few factors.:

The $220 is return, therefore the journey is 2000 miles, and $140 dollars. Then the government takes about 50% of the $220 in taxes, then they take a further $2.50 per segment for security fees, and then the airports take departure taxes, and so on and so on....

J

TriStar500 From Germany, joined Nov 1999, 4685 posts, RR: 48
Reply 8, posted (9 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 3382 times:

...only that you also have to factor in that the airline won't sell every seat on a plane, so with a seat load factor of e.g. 75% and a CASM of $0.07 per mile, a seat actually "costs" $93.33 .

Sorry if there should be any mathematical mistakes in my calculation, I just wanted to bring my point across. Smile

Homer: Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!

TriStar500 From Germany, joined Nov 1999, 4685 posts, RR: 48
Reply 9, posted (9 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 3375 times:

To be more precise, the $93.33 applies to the breakeven revenue each passenger has to generate on said oneway flight.

Homer: Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!

Elal106 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 975 posts, RR: 5
Reply 10, posted (9 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 3377 times:

So is jetblue braking even on LGB-JFK for $79 each way?

AASTEW From Dominican Republic, joined Oct 2001, 443 posts, RR: 1
Reply 11, posted (9 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 3302 times:

So out of the Big Airlines, who as the lowest CASM's.. Where can I get those figures. Thanks!

Mariner From New Zealand, joined Nov 2001, 22698 posts, RR: 88
Reply 12, posted (9 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 3275 times:

AASTEW:

I think - repeat think - that the major with the lowest CASM is either AMR or CAL. From memory both are about 9.5 cents.

The information is easily available, but it takes a bit of digging. It is rported in their SEC filings available under Investor Information (or similar) on each airline web site. It's a fairly long document.

Also, in the press release of their quarterly performance, the airlines will usually report their CASM

http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/n/airlin.htm

This site collects all the airline press releases, or you can find the press releases on the airline website.

Thye don't always report CASM in their monthly performance releases, though. They tend to save it for the quarterly.

cheers

mariner

aeternum nauta

TomFoolery From Austria, joined Jan 2004, 492 posts, RR: 2
Reply 13, posted (9 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 3260 times:

Very interesting thread! Not necessarily something I routinely ponder, but interesting none the less.

Thanks,

TF

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Alexinwa From United States of America, joined Sep 2000, 1107 posts, RR: 0
Reply 14, posted (9 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 3213 times:

It was my understanding the the taxes, airport landing/takeoff fees, etc werent counted in the per seat per mile? Since these are not going to the airline why count them?

Artsyman From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 4741 posts, RR: 43
Reply 15, posted (9 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 3196 times:

It was my understanding the the taxes, airport landing/takeoff fees, etc werent counted in the per seat per mile? Since these are not going to the airline why count them?
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The reason why I added them in is that one of the above posters in reply#6 was implying that it was easy to make a profit on the current CASM, so I dropped a little reality into the equation.

J

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