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- From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
- Subject: Re: "Dumping"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.171508.25279@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:15:08 GMT
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- In article <Bz3MAC.7nM@apollo.hp.com> nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec10.233707.26960@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >>In article <Bz2E7r.JvC@apollo.hp.com> nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
- >>>>False again. Bygones are bygones, sunk costs are sunk costs. They're
- >>>>making profits on the sale of tickets, even if they're losing money
- >>>>overall.
- >>>
- >>> Again, why is this relevant? They're still losing money.
- >>
- >>Again, so what? They're making more money than they would not selling
- >>any tickets.
- >
- > They're not *making money*. They're losing less money than they would
- > otherwise lose.
-
- The money's already lost. They're already in the hole, and this strategy
- allows them to improve their position. That's making money.
-
- >>> "Profit" has a specific meaning in a business.
- >>
- >>You're making money on every seat sold. You're just not covering
- >>fixed costs.
- >
- > Look, you don't get to make up your own definition of "profit". If
- > you can find some line with "profit" on it in the latest AMR quarterly
- > that doesn't have parenthesis around it, I'd like to see it.
-
- It costs American Airlines about $30-$50 to serve an additional passenger,
- and they're selling tickets for $90-$200. That looks like a $40-$170
- profit on each ticket sold to me.
-
- Just because they were already $1 billion down when they started selling
- tickets doesn't mean they're not profiting by selling tickets.
- --
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