You raise some important points Mr.747. My question is whether there is any way to accurately know these details? I am flagging the basis for this assertion that their operating costs are superior to other carriers. A friend of mine who is a senior consultant for a company building and running an international airport, has access to some CASM/RASM and as per him Spicejet shows the lowest CASM of carriers today. He has similar figures for other carriers as well- in case of AI the figures are avail separately for AI Intl, AI Domestic and Alliance. But there are no figures for 6E except for feel good statements in the media. One of my staff did ask the question at a press conference, specifically flagging their claims of being profitable. It was the CAPA fellow who fobbed off the question by saying that 6E doesn't have to give these figures because its not a listed company.

Does anyone know about what the utilization of their planes and crew really is? We see their planes doing longer turnarounds than competition so clearly that goes out of the window! As for crew: what is the flight crew to airplane ratio currently? That would give an indication. And so on.

But the question really is: Why all the smoke and mirrors if they are really so profitable?