Originally Posted by
CalVol
Best I can tell from the stories I've read indicates roughly half the schedule was cancelled. What will the total economic impact of this event be? Do those costs come anywhere near the costs associated with the kind of redundancies that would have prevented it?
Gee whiz numbers. Most of their flights go through ATL daily. With annual revenue of $39.6 billion, DL has a revenue of $108 million per day. Half of that is $54 million. Less the mega fuel savings for Flights Not Flown.