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Old Aug 14, 2020 | 3:51 pm
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Define "profit". If an airline made $12,000 per flight in bottom line financial statement profit, American would make somewhere around $30 Billion in profit per year. They don't.

The "cost" you provide above says it includes "flight crew wages, airport fees, maintenance and fuel". It costs a lot more to run an airline than these three items. Like airplanes at up to $300 Million each, 100,000 non-flight crew employees, etc., etc.
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