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Old Jul 9, 2007, 7:03 pm
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This article reports that airlines average 49 revenue-passenger-miles per gallon of jet fuel. That's about 20 gallons per 1K miles/pax. Jet juel is about $2.10/gallon recently, so $42/pax/1K miles.

If the average pax + bags weighs 200 lbs, that's 21 cents per pound/1K miles.

Not sure how cargo fits into that equation.

And of course, that's not the marginal cost - the empty plane itself is heavy and that cost is buried here. But it's a ballpark starting point.
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