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Old Jun 5, 2022 | 9:05 pm
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Originally Posted by jsloan
Oops, sorry, my numbers are a little out of date. Using 2019 data, they made about $3BB in net income on about 1.8MM flights, so about $1,600 per flight. The $500 / flight number came from a few years earlier. (Of course, since the start of COVID, all airlines have been hemorrhaging money, but UA thinks they've turned the corner).....
Other view is about $20/passenger, very marginal profit per passenger and shifting that a bit can have a huge impact -- that's RM job.
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