[citation][nom]diellur[/nom]jacekring,Your calc assumes 200 pounds of weight for your ticket, but you don't account for the proportion of weight of the aircraft you're also paying for. That weight includes structure, avionics, interior, fuel and (amongst a lot of other things) the flight manuals. You need to think of the total cost to in tickets to fill the plane versus the cost to operate it for that flight, then work out what proportion of the cost is allocated to the manuals.American Airlines in 1987 removed 1 olive from every meal in first-class for every flight. So that's about 50 olives per flight and that saved them approximately $40,000 that year. 1 olive = 0.004 lbs50 olives = 0.22 lbsAssume 100 flights a year (in reality it's more but this is just to see how it scales up):100 flights * 0.22 lbs removed = 22 lbs removed Removing 22 lbs over 100 flights saves $40k. Over 100 flights, this is $1,818/lb/flight.Flight manuals = 20 lbsIf we removed flight manuals, weight saved over 100 flights is 2,000 lbs.Savings by removing flight manuals / cost of carrying flight manuals over 100 flights = 2,000 lbs * $1,818/lb/flight = $3.64M.It's not hard to see how removing 20lbs of payload from the aircraft per flight can save $1M/year in a real-world scenario.[/citation]
Illogical, he's right, you're wrong. You're completely obfuscating everything with your made up numbers, and fluff.
Plain reality, the planes aren't going to change their structure because of 20 pounds of manuals. Everything will remain the same, except for the manuals. To save a million dollars a year, let's assume even 500 flights, you'd have save $2000 per flight on 20 pounds of paper.
Sorry, you're wrong. Not only that, you're very wrong. They'd be charging people by the pound if that were the case. They'd also have treadmills as part of the basic equipment in the cockpit instead of iPads.
Try all your fancy footwork instead of admitting you're wrong. It's only going to fool fools. Hell, I could argue the 20 pound manuals save money because they burn calories while they move them, and if you add up all those calories over the lifetime of a pilot, it adds up to more than 20 pounds of calories. It's not hard to be confusing and make up stupid stuff. But, it's not helpful.
Illogical, he's right, you're wrong. You're completely obfuscating everything with your made up numbers, and fluff.
Plain reality, the planes aren't going to change their structure because of 20 pounds of manuals. Everything will remain the same, except for the manuals. To save a million dollars a year, let's assume even 500 flights, you'd have save $2000 per flight on 20 pounds of paper.
Sorry, you're wrong. Not only that, you're very wrong. They'd be charging people by the pound if that were the case. They'd also have treadmills as part of the basic equipment in the cockpit instead of iPads.
Try all your fancy footwork instead of admitting you're wrong. It's only going to fool fools. Hell, I could argue the 20 pound manuals save money because they burn calories while they move them, and if you add up all those calories over the lifetime of a pilot, it adds up to more than 20 pounds of calories. It's not hard to be confusing and make up stupid stuff. But, it's not helpful.
/web.mit.edu/airlines/analysis/analysis_airline_industry.html
er aircraft. Not for a whole fleet.As for the numbers, they're from this excerpt : "US airlines reported over $160 billion in total revenues, with approximately 545,000 employees and over 8,000 aircraft operating 31,000 flights per day"31,000 for 8,000 aircrafts averages 3,875/flights a day per aircraft.3,875 flights/day x 365 days = 1414,375 flights a year per aircraft.$1,000,000 in savings divided by 1414,375 flights a year equals to $707.03 in savings per flight.[/citation]
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