In July, Delta will provide 233 million Available Seat Kilometers nonstop to Africa – a 21% reduction on its capacity five years ago.
These four factors might thus collectively be identified as the Hugeness components: "GDP," "GDP as a Share of World GDP," "Available Airline Seat Kilometers," and "Domestic Market Size Index". Other than Hugeness, the results for the U.S. are not at all outstanding.
In 2006, Gol's aircraft utilization rate (the time between a plane's departure from the gate and arrival at its destination) was 14.2 block hours a day the highest in South America, according to ANAC and the airline boasted the lowest cost per available-seat-kilometer.
Enginemakers estimate that the proposed plane will burn 35% more fuel per seat-kilometer than today's 767.
He figures that JALand ANA had a unit cost per available seat-kilometer this year of 9.5 cents, the highest in the world.
That beat Southwest ($4.72 of revenue per 100 seat-kilometers; $4.53 of costs).
It's growing rapidly: Revenue-seat-kilometers has risen more than 20% annually, and by 2010 it will have 100 wide-bodied jets.
Marty Bentrott, vice president of sales, marketing and in-service support for the 787, says that since 1990, the number of city pairs more than 3,000 nautical miles apart served by the world's airlines have doubled, the number of frequencies offered by the airlines have doubled, and the number of available seat-kilometers (seating capacity times miles flown) have doubled.
Based on Eq. 2, the transport work on a given line for the supply (s-km) (seat-kilometers) and demand (p-km) sides, respectively, can be calculated as follows [26]: {text{TWS}}(T) = f(T) times s times d quad {text{and}} quad {text{TWD}}(T) = f(T) times s times rho (T) times d.
