Depending on where airlines are based, fuel can account for 10-30% of operating costs.
The board's annual price index of operating costs to be released today shows a hefty 7.8percentt increase.
Probably the most significant are the Price Index of Operating Costs and the Income and Affordability Study.
Tight security is also a must and can take up 7percentto10percentcent of operating costs.
Income from fees now covers 53percentt of operating costs, up from 32percentthree years agogo, Mr. Ezeiza said.
Saint Phalle often had only enough for another month of operating costs, but she never told the workers.
The industry estimates that the share of operating costs devoted to fuel has doubled in six years.
Six months earlier, Bard had had monthly liquidity of $7.1 million — equal to just two weeks' worth of operating costs.
At the peak of the economic cycle, plans were launched to take £1 billion ($1.7 billion) out of operating costs.
(The state paid for the new building and covers a third of operating costs; the city and the school district pick up the rest).
Labor accounts for 40percentt of operating costs at most airlines, and United has some of the highest such expenses of any of its peers.
