What governs airlines’ economics ?

• Capital and resource intensive industry

• Seasonality - year round, week round, day round and hour round

• Management efficiency - complex type of environment both internal and external

• Yield management

• Function of load factor vs. break even load factor

• Management of trip cost and per mile cost economics

• High load factors does not mean profits - need to strongly relate per unit cost with per unit revenues
  

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