Rare mahdnc Posted July 6, 2018 #1 Share Posted July 6, 2018 This interesting article was published today in Forbes: World's Most Profitable Flights: This Airline Route Makes $1 Billion Annually There are other interesting financial metrics mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zach1213 Posted July 6, 2018 #2 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Amazing that BA can put 16-18 segments per day between LHR and JFK, all widebody, and still make over $1b per year with all that competition. Wow. I wonder how the BA + AA JV works in to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishywood Posted July 7, 2018 #3 Share Posted July 7, 2018 The article is titled "World's Most Profitable Flights" but the only figures given appear to be for gross revenue, not net profit (or even gross income). The author is a travel blogger (click on his bio) who sold an article to Forbes on a topic he clearly has no skills in: finance or accounting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare FlyerTalker Posted July 7, 2018 #4 Share Posted July 7, 2018 It's also disingenuous because few would really use revenue per hour as a metric. Revenue per Available Seat Mile (RASM) is far more common as a metric, along with Cost per Available Seat Mile (CASM). Revenue per Passenger Seat Mile (RPSM) is another standardized metric. None of those numbers made the article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Globaliser Posted July 9, 2018 #5 Share Posted July 9, 2018 And who knows whether or not those revenue figures are reliable anyway? There are at least two issues I can think of: I'm not sure that airlines are generally happy to publish these. In any case, how reliable is the attribution of revenue to any specific sector? Emirates has a spot high on the list with LHR-DXB, but a very high proportion of its traffic simply hubs in DXB. You can only get a proper view of the revenue earned on LHR-DXB by properly apportioning every fare paid by every passenger between that attributable to LHR-DXB and that attributable to the onward sector. Has that been done? Accurately? Reliably? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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