Bear in mind a interesting fact I heard yesterday from an industry person - on the average RJ flight, 65% of pax are business fliers. Many leisure people prefer to drive rather than pay the price for <500 mile flights....no wonder these planes are popular. Perhaps a carrier could pick up these F100s cheap as overgrown RJs? -----Original Message----- From: The Airline List [mailto:AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU]On Behalf Of boblochry Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 10:07 AM To: AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU Subject: Re: Fokker 100s costs Mike, The article did not specify the cost basis used, but it seems that when ever people in the airline industry talk about "direct operating costs" they are referring to "cost per seat mile". Obviously, more seats give a larger airplane an advantage by spreading the flights costs over a larger number of seats. Cost per seat mile does not address other concerns such as profitability. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Gammon" <jmgammon@sympatico.ca> To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 7:57 AM Subject: Re: Fokker 100s costs > Are we talking per hour, per seat mile, per flight? > > Mike Gammon > > > > > From: boblochry <boblochry@msn.com> > > Date: 2002/08/21 Wed PM 10:18:57 EDT > > To: AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU > > Subject: Fokker 100s costs > > > > Direct operating costs of the Fokker 100s owned by American and US > > Airways are 50% higher than those of Boeing 737s operated by those > > carriers, said Mort Beyer of Morten Beyer and Agnew. Operating costs > > of 50-seat regional jets are 100% higher than those of the 737s. > > >