I’m considering getting one of those cheap tickets you see which is a direct round trip from MSP to Orlando for $60 including fees (it wasnt the date i wanted but it was cheap). How does that make economic sense for the airline? Sure the plane is making the trip anyway, but how can hauling my 200lbs of man meat 1500miles for $30 each direction not more than offset the fuel?
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Most of the fuel is used to carry the plane. A 737 weighs 92K pounds dry. The fuel weighs some but the 143 people are probably only another 25K pounds. Max takeoff weight is 172K pounds and your 200 is 0.12%. You’re not nothing, but almost nothing.
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