15 or 16 cents maybe high, but consider their average segment length vs. the long(er) haul mainline routes running A319s at the like. Matthew On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 04:43 AM, Nick Laflamme wrote: > One thing that perplexes me: > >> Atlantic's costs were about 18 cents per available seat mile in the >> first >> quarter of this year. Skeen said that should drop to 15 or 16 cents >> per >> available seat mile. > 15 or 16 cents an ASM is still expensive, isn't it? It might be less > expensive than regional carriers, but it seems expensive compared to > the > three carriers I think of as "low cost": Southwest, JetBlue, and > AirTran.