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Airline Mogul => General Chat => Topic started by: mashimaro_1 on November 15, 2008, 10:05:56 am

Title: Flight Leg Costs
Post by: mashimaro_1 on November 15, 2008, 10:05:56 am

I've been playing for a while and haven't paid much notice to this box when viewing a route. But now I look at it I'm not sure how to read it?

Flight Leg Costs   
Trip Cost   €21,809.00
Hourly Cost   €1,831.15
Aircraft-Mile Cost   €52.63
Seat-mile Cost   €0.44
Revenue-mile Cost   €0.44

What does it all mean?!

Title: Re: Flight Leg Costs
Post by: StephenM on November 15, 2008, 10:49:54 am

From what I remember:

Trip Cost	The cost to operate the route.
Hourly Cost	The trip cost, bit it should be broken down to an hourly rate.
Aircraft-Mile Cost	how much does it cost to operate this route per mile.
Seat-mile Cost	On this route how much does it cost to offer 1 seat for 1 mile.
Revenue-mile Cost	Similar to Seat mile cost, I cannot remember the difference, but in AM is marginal.

I'll re-check my info and update if I have any mistakes.

Title: Re: Flight Leg Costs
Post by: dktc on November 15, 2008, 04:06:49 pm

Seat-mile should be the total seat, while revenue-mile should be the "Seated-mile". If you have 100% LF on the route, they should be the same.

If your plane is not full, you have more seat, but less passenger sitting in them. That is, you have less revenue for that flight, and therefore less revenue mile (revenue mile = seated seats * route distance). Thus, in this case, your seat-mile cost should be the same as the above case, but the revenue-mile cost would be higher.

(I am not completely sure if this is how the formula in AM works, but theoretically, that is the difference.)

Title: Re: Flight Leg Costs
Post by: StephenM on November 15, 2008, 04:45:47 pm

Yep, I think Daniel has it in one! :)