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Re:Boeing and Airbus, the new ‘super duopoly’ by maxerickson on Thursday April 26, 2018 @09:56PM (#16937881)
Ownership/leasing costs are apparently only ~20% of airline costs¹. A big chunk of that will be the cost of manufacturing the plane. So the actual fixed costs aren't that bad.

1. about 40% of direct flight costs, which are 50% of overall costs: https://www.icao.int/MID/Documents/2017/Aviation%20Data%20an...

Re:Boeing and Airbus, the new ‘super duopoly’ by dx034 on Friday April 27, 2018 @03:16AM (#16938998)
Ownership costs are so low because utilisation has been improved greatly over the past decades. Especially short-haul planes are now in the air for 14-16h or more. That over a life-time of two decades or more reduces the per-flight cost to a minimum.
Re:Boeing and Airbus, the new ‘super duopoly’ by tuna-piano on Thursday April 26, 2018 @10:30PM (#16938032)
Meh. To that same point though, Boeing's net profit margin is only around 10%. Of course, 10% is pretty typical of any company, and doesn't seem to be any kind of huge amount coming from duopoly power. Compare to Visa, which has more like a 50% profit margin.

...But even if you considered all of that 10% profit margin comes from the powers the duopoloy affords them, then that's only 2% of airline costs (10% Boeing profit * 20% of airline cost).