what percent of my plane ticket cost goes to what?

[dpopiz]

Speak if you know something about how the cost of a plane ticket is broken down these days:

 

[sash1]

5.56% to those ticket people who are slow as hell
4.44% for everyone else who works in an airport
6.892% to the pilot
4.71849% to the co-pilot
7.442% to the flight attendents
6.7% to the free alcohol for first class
50% for fuel
11.598% to the security guards
1% for their damn wands
1.34951% for those peanuts

 

[zoiks]

Originally posted by: sash1
10% to fuel
6.892% to the pilot
4.71849% to the co-pilot
7.442% to the flight attendents
6.7% to the free alcohol for first class
50% for fuel
11.598% to the security guards
1% for their damn wands
rest% for those peanuts

and the rest of the airline employees live on donations?

 

[sash1]

Originally posted by: zoiks

Originally posted by: sash1
10% to fuel
6.892% to the pilot
4.71849% to the co-pilot
7.442% to the flight attendents
6.7% to the free alcohol for first class
50% for fuel
11.598% to the security guards
1% for their damn wands
rest% for those peanuts

and the rest of the airline employees live on donations?

hmm, well seeing as I have 10% and 50% for fuel, I must have made an error, I guess they can have a small portion

 

[dpopiz]

cookie

 

[her209]

50% goes into the pocket of the CEO and higher ups

 

[jupiter57]

Originally posted by: her209
50% goes into the pocket of the CEO and higher ups

More true than one would think, what with bonuses, stock options, and overly generous retirement plans.
Then, the remainder: 40% to fuel, 10% to the employees who actually do the real work, that makes 100%. Then add 2-3% for misc. and VOILA, Airline can then file a loss!
Sorta like the year that Chrysler paid it's Executives around $3.5 Billion in bonuses, then claimed a $2 billion+ loss and ask the Federal Government to bail them out!

 

[Zolty]

Almost nothing to the pilot .

 

[dpopiz]

interesting....
I was wondering if the airport figures high into the total cost, since airports these days are so ungodly messy and inefficient, but I guess they probably make most of the cost up by having all those stinkin shops inside.

btw anecdote: when I was at frankfurt main airport last summer, they had a sex shop inside the airport complete with little booths you could go into to "watch a movie" on this interactive VOD machine. I think they charged more than 1 Euro per minute.

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: Zolty
Almost nothing to the pilot .

Is that a joke? Commercial airline pilots get paid great money, especially when you consider their schedule isn't exactly overwelming.

 

[XZeroII]

100% goes to the F'ed in the A fund.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: sash1
5.56% to those ticket people who are slow as hell
4.44% for everyone else who works in an airport
6.892% to the pilot
4.71849% to the co-pilot
7.442% to the flight attendents
6.7% to the free alcohol for first class
50% for fuel
11.598% to the security guards
1% for their damn wands
1.34951% for those peanuts

:laugh:

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: Zolty
Almost nothing to the pilot .

Is that a joke? Commercial airline pilots get paid great money, especially when you consider their schedule isn't exactly overwelming.

As a national mortgage company employee...they often 'work' a little less than a 40 hour work week over the course of a year. Add that in to time away from home though and it's not so cool.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: jupiter57

Originally posted by: her209
50% goes into the pocket of the CEO and higher ups

More true than one would think, what with bonuses, stock options, and overly generous retirement plans.
Then, the remainder: 40% to fuel, 10% to the employees who actually do the real work, that makes 100%. Then add 2-3% for misc. and VOILA, Airline can then file a loss!
Sorta like the year that Chrysler paid it's Executives around $3.5 Billion in bonuses, then claimed a $2 billion+ loss and ask the Federal Government to bail them out!

oh boy, do you class envy people bug me to no end.

Hey, want to have the kinds of decisions these guys have to make and how they have to constantly improve the company? why don't you go out and be a CEO.

Good executives are hard to find.

 

[crab]

All that and an average transcon profits only around $500.