I have a question regarding costs on a particular set of my flights.
I Fly : Fort Lauderdale to LAX, using A321 2x CFM International CFM56-5B1. Fuel burn is 6680 per hour. I have ticket price exactly the same on both flights.
Flight 1 is a morning flight leaving Fort Lauderdale at 6am, and getting back on its round trip at 18:20pm.
Flight 2 is a late morning flight leaving Fort Lauderdale at 11:45, and getting back on its round trip at 00:05am.
Flight 1 has a 96.9% load factor
Flight 2 has a 99% load factor
So the question: How is it that flight 1 makes more money then flight two. I noticed the fuel costs are usually off by a $1000 dollars and the other costs by a few hundred dollars a flight.
Im just curious has to why it happens, not a complaint, just trying to understand.
Thanks
Is the 2nd flight's return trip from LAX 99% as well?
Talentz
Are they leased? Or owned?
Flight 1: the overall Load is 99%
Flight 2: the overall Load is 97.6%. This was as of the most recent flight, it is the roundtrip figure. The profit difference between them is $3,993
Both are leased planes.
Can you post a screenshot of the two route info threads? Does one flight have C seats, when the other one doesn't? Or HD seats?
Flight 1:
Route information - Fort Lauderdale to Los Angeles
Airport information
Departure: Fort Lauderdale, FLL (KFLL), United States 2031 NM
Destination: Los Angeles, LAX (KLAX), United States
Base data
11:45 - 14:35, FLL - LAX
15:35 - 00:05, LAX - FLL
MK027
MK028
Every day
New flight number:
MK A321, Airbus A318/A319/A320/A321
Assigned to: Airbus A321-100, N106MK
Seat config:
Seat information
Economy class (Y)
192x
Standard economy seat
Total: 192 seats
Max capacity: 220Y
Y192, C0, F0
Routing, Prices, Average load factor (last 7 days)
Route Ticket prices Sold seats Load factor
FLL - LAX Y: $ 369, C: $ 791, F: $ 1275
Y: 187 Y: 97.3%
LAX - FLL Y: $ 369, C: $ 791, F: $ 1275
Y: 188 Y: 97.9%
Manage all prices of route FLL - LAX or LAX - FLL.
Financial Information (average of last 7 days) (1)
Route Ticket Income Fuel Other costs Total
FLL - LAX $ 68 957 -$ 14 703 -$ 10 826 $ 43 428
LAX - FLL $ 69 372 -$ 13 267 -$ 11 212 $ 44 893
Total for Flight 1: $88,321 with a Load of 97.6%
Flight 2
Route information - Fort Lauderdale to Los Angeles
Airport information
Departure: Fort Lauderdale, FLL (KFLL), United States 2031 NM
Destination: Los Angeles, LAX (KLAX), United States
Base data
06:00 - 08:50, FLL - LAX
09:50 - 18:20, LAX - FLL
MK019
MK020
Every day
New flight number:
MK A321, Airbus A318/A319/A320/A321
Assigned to: Airbus A321-100, N105MK
Seat config:
Seat information
Economy class (Y)
192x
Standard economy seat
Total: 192 seats
Max capacity: 220Y
Y192, C0, F0
Routing, Prices, Average load factor (last 7 days)
Route Ticket prices Sold seats Load factor
FLL - LAX Y: $ 369, C: $ 791, F: $ 1275
Y: 190 Y: 99.1%
LAX - FLL Y: $ 369, C: $ 791, F: $ 1275
Y: 190 Y: 98.8%
Manage all prices of route FLL - LAX or LAX - FLL.
Financial Information (average of last 7 days) (1)
Route Ticket Income Fuel Other costs Total
FLL - LAX $ 67 837 -$ 13 851 -$ 11 012 $ 42 974
LAX - FLL $ 67 630 -$ 13 974 -$ 11 300 $ 42 356
Total for Flight 2: $85,330 with a load of 99%
The costs are all close enough to identical. Landing fees, etc within $500 on all flights, fuel a bit further apart but that could change due to wind, etc. It's the revenue that is out. MK027 has the correct revenue, MK019 has revenue that is too low for that many pax paying that much per ticket. That revenue corresponds to only $357 per ticket.
So, there are two options:
a: You've changed your prices on MK019 in the last few days, moved them up to 369.
b: There's a bug.
If you haven't touched prices, open a bug report. If you have touched prices, wait 4 RL hours, then post that same info again, and this time they should be near-equal.
Do the planes have different lease prices?
OP - the 7 day average can be a bit wonky to do direct comparisons like you're doing. I'm fairly certain there's some randomization within the fuel burn numbers to simulate the affect of winds and other things. The best way to compare numbers would be on a flight by flight basis - below the sales/revenue expenses graph, there's a link that says to "show expanded statistics". This should give you actual sales and related profits for each flight rather than the moving 7 day average.
Quote from: alexgv1 on August 21, 2012, 11:10:52 AM
Do the planes have different lease prices?
That shouldn't be impacting the variable route profit numbers.
Quote from: schro on August 21, 2012, 11:48:40 AM
That shouldn't be impacting the variable route profit numbers.
If you say so...
So I think it was the change in price. I noticed I had adjusted the flight prices a few game days earlier. Now both flights show a load factor round trip of 98.2%. The profit difference is now down to $608 dollars. I'm still puzzled by the difference but less concerned now that it's under $1000 dollars. When I break down the figures the largest dollar difference is in the fuel cost from FLL to LAX. Thank you for all the answers
Average wind calculation for the time of day perhaps.
So one last update on this. The profit is now within $6 dollars of each other. However a funny thing appeared now, the Yield /RPM is $15.79 for each, but the ASM is $15.39 on one flight and $15.41 on the other. Strange!!