Originally Posted by
hirohito888
If such data was readily available, I would assume people here would be comparing AC 7M7 performance with WS or WN 7M7.
What do you mean "if"? FlightAware exists and the information you're talking about is available for free.
Originally Posted by
hirohito888
There are investors, travel agencies, cargo planners, logistics operators, regular or frequent travelers that need some simple metric to assess an airline's operation and make an assessment..
Investors don't care about OTP. You will see no correlation whatsoever between Delta's stock and Delta's OTP, for instance.
Frequent flyers aren't making purchasing decisions based on OTP. They're making decisions based on cost, loyalty programs, routes served, alliances, lounges, J cabin layouts, food, and so on.
Cargo shiipers don't look at top-line OTP either. They'll look at specific route data for the destinations they're interested in, not the entire airline.
Originally Posted by
hirohito888
Same goes for calculating RASM or CASM. One could argue about discrepancies on currency, purchasing power, high vs. low cost markets, airport slots/gates, etc. But it's still a metric that allows some standard comparison.
And again -- what's the real and actual purpose of comparing highly reductionist numbers other than as fodder for Internet arguments?