Meanwhile, back to the data:

Monday Oct 7th……Porter had 7hrs 31 mins avg utilization with an asl of 1,348 miles. An average of 2.6 sectors per each of the 42 tails currently registered.

In 2010, Allegiant ended the year with 49 tails. They ran those tails about 5.5 airborne hours a day, 2.7 departures a day with an ASL of 874 miles.

Allegiant paid a total of $1,721,000 in aircraft lease rentals that year. That’s about 7 months lease payments on one Porter E2.

Allegiant reported a 15.7% operating margin that year.

I wonder Porter’s E2 operating margin is?