Originally Posted by
docbert
I'm going to guess the "50 seats" number is actually for both SFO-PVG and PVG-SFO, so it's really 25 return seats/day.
If you presume that route is 100% business for Apple, then...
$35 million in revenue, divided by 365 days, gives $100k/day.
$100k/day, divided by 50 seats gives $2k/seat
If that's really 50 seats in each direction then that's $1k/passenger/flight.
Whilst I'm sure Apple gets good discounts, I can't see them paying $1k for a 6000 mile business class flight...
However with 25 passengers in each direction that comes out to $2k/passenger/flight, or $4k/round trip.
(If they do have non-business class travelers on that route then the $ numbers are even lower)
At the very bottom of the posters it says "fly California's global airline", so my guess would be CA revenue only.
Only Apple travel desk know how much the tickets really is.
Apple buys tons of ticket on UA. But majority of employees (current/ex- including me) hates UA. So a beginning of the year travel desk doesn’t really enforce the UA policy. But around August time frame- travel desk will force us to suffer UA. During those time period, even though UA fare may look much higher than for example SQ to HKG. Travel desk will say that is not true price paid and I will be stuck on HKG.
857/869/871/837...... chances are 1/4 of J cabin are occupied by my colleagues. But give how silo Apple is internally chances are even you are working on same product- you won’t know what other guys is doing. You get to see more as you advance in career.
Originally Posted by
rufflesinc
is apple really getting a deal, i see fares in J for SFO-PVG rt less than $3.7k for most of the year
I was told the actual cost paid was significantly less- in ball park around $2k once by travel desk- because I had wanted to take SQ1/2
Originally Posted by
sfo3388
Surprised to see TPE is
#3 on Apple's list. What is Apple doing in Taiwan? They don't make iPhone there.
And this must be the reason why United puts 77W on TPE route, although people keep saying TPE is a low-yield market.
Apple CM are HQ in taiwan. Why would this be surprising???
Originally Posted by
UAflyer93
They’re getting a huge deal. More important than price is the flexibility that these corporate deals entail (e.g., discounts or flat rates on last seat availability.)
A lot of travel, especially in the manufacturing space, is booked at the last minute. Heck, I know people who were in meetings, a problem came up, and their boss asked them to get on the next flight (in a couple hours) to go visit a manufacturer. Being guaranteed a seat on an airline with an international route network as extensive as UA’s is not something that can be discounted.
I always have a suit case in my trunk. 7 pairs of socks, 7 underwear, 7 to shirts, 3 khakis, one pair of tennis shoe. You just never know when u will leave.
I have done same day turn around in SFO. Litterally landed and got my bagge then went upstairs and checked back in.
I also had UA pull another passenger off HND to SFO for me as my NRT-SFO flight was cancelled.
Corporare contract and being GS does have its merit and benefit.
Originally Posted by
John Aldeborgh
UA is about to get a lot of very angry letters and maybe about to lose a few large customers. If I were Tim Cook, I would be wild and making a change to the Apple travel policy, today.
I am sure a lot of people will be happy that travel policy changes.
Originally Posted by
oopl
Well now we know which 10 ex-SFO routes will stick around for awhile.
...as long as those corporate contracts stay.
CTU- for example
