Negative Revenue

[freshJet]

Here is my Balance Sheet for the last 3 months:

2011-04 58 £ 234,606.32 (£ -18,240.02) £ 0.00 (£ -2,327,067.31) (£ -2,110,701.01)

2011-05 49 £ 229,714.39 (£ -17,853.00) £ 0.00 (£ -1,527,839.41) (£ -1,315,978.02)

2011-06 22 £ 473,548.51 (£ -16,493.33) £ 0.00 (£ -1,083,944.81) (£ -626,889.63)

2011-07 5 £ 33,708.90 (£ -2,396.28) (£ -22,138.60) (£ -216,411.76) (£ -207,237.74)

Total: (£ -4,260,806.40)

And Breakdown:

What the hell is going on? Is it a fuel price problem?

[Jeff]

I have yet been able to figure out how it is even possible to get the Finances to work alongside the fuel prices. I have the fuel price set under $1.00 (USD) as I use the exact ticket price the REAL Airline uses for each passenger, and with no expenses, the fuel consumption rips a new hole in my wallet after every flight (always in the negative). So it had to be changed so it is getting at least some profit. I think I have it set to $0.33

[TAV1702]

At my test airline, we are going through the same exact issue. Unless the fuel is set way low like you guys are talking about, it will always be an issue.

I believe why this is happening is because, in real airlines, they have overhead they need to pay for such as pilots, co pilots, baggage workers, flight attendants, etc, etc. Last year American Airlines was profiting only $250 per flight on the average across the board once all fuel, landing fees, taxes, misc expenses, and salaries were paid.

The way the system is set up to work now, we do not have the luxury of fine tuning finances. All we can do is try our best and set the fuel prices unrealistically low. I do have some real world numbers here somewhere that I have been researching and my apologies for chiming in and not having the information at hand.

I think down the road, a nice feature for the software would be the possibility to add expenses per flight. That would surely even out the situation. For example, adding an expense in the system for flight attendants. This expense is added to any and all flights. Not very real to have flight attendants on a cargo flight eh? Or a small Cessna charter.

I feel for us all going through the fuel crunch right now. I have faith that in the end, it will all work outwith us all giving input and Nabeel executing great code as he normally does.

Ray

P.S. My apologies for going off topic guys.

[freshJet]

Well I was thinking about purchasing items on board, but even then, each flight is costly.