Cusaeng From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2006, 143 posts, RR: 0 Posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 1257 times:
from ba intranet
"During the period August 10-17 the airline cancelled some 1,280 flights which affected some 80,000 customers. The airline estimates that the financial impact for the month of August was around £40 million. This includes lost revenue and increased costs of hotel accommodation, catering and baggage repatriation."
Steve6666 From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2003, 356 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 1248 times:
Quoting Cusaeng (Thread starter): how can one put a price on the number of peoples lives that could have been waisted by terrorists.
It's irrelevant to this calculation, as BA are stating the losses/increased costs or opportunity costs of unused capacity arising on them, not society as a whole.
The government is responsible for deciding the social costs of lost lives etc and responding accordingly. It's an area of economics called cost-benefit analysis. Either the government thought the potential costs of loss of life etc outweighed the potential benefits of maintaining capacity, or they thought that maintaining a general level of hysteria would benefit the current regime in keeping the masses in check. Make your own mind up.
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Wrighbrothers From United Kingdom, joined Jul 2005, 1875 posts, RR: 10 Reply 3, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 1160 times:
Quoting Cusaeng (Thread starter): how can one put a price on the number of peoples lives that could have been waisted by terrorists.
We can't, but the whole point is, BA is a business, and when businessses lose money it's bad news ,for them atleast, and while BA aren't arguing about the risk to travelers, I doubt they are too pleased withthe amount of money they lost.
Quoting Cusaeng (Thread starter): The airline estimates that the financial impact for the month of August was around £40 million.
If I remember correctly, that was the same amount of money that BA lost during the Gate Gourmet strike.
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David L From United Kingdom, joined May 1999, 9212 posts, RR: 42 Reply 4, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 1152 times:
Quoting Cusaeng (Thread starter): how can one put a price on the number of peoples lives that could have been waisted by terrorists.
Should they just tell their shareholders "you don't need to know - don't worry about it"?
As Steve6666 says, they're not "putting a price on the number of peoples lives that could have been waisted by terrorists". They're putting a price on how much the cancelled flights and extra expenses cost. It's relatively simple arithmetic.
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