Continental Airlines Aircraft Operating Statistics- Cost Per Block Hour (Unadjusted)
Continental Airlines
		1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
	Small Narrowbodies	$1,843	$1,936	$1,971	$2,030	$2,001	$2,482	$2,589	$2,550	$2,748	$2,766	$3,012	$3,088	$3,165	$3,989
	(Ex Fuel)	$1,360	$1,409	$1,419	$1,616	$1,631	$1,805	$1,954	$2,003	$2,064	$1,907	$1,737	$1,652	$1,660	$1,743
	Pilots	$393	$405	$452	$587	$570	$570	$599	$502	$666	$612	$550	$497	$500	$515
	Salaries and Wages	$325	$332	$374	$504	$492	$492	$514	$424	$416	$414	$377	$350	$373	$387
	Pilot Training	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$7	$19
	Benefits and Payroll Taxes	$46	$46	$45	$45	$41	$45	$50	$48	$225	$170	$145	$117	$88	$76
	Per Diem/ Personnel	$22	$26	$32	$39	$37	$32	$35	$30	$25	$28	$28	$30	$32	$33
	Purchased Goods	$517	$581	$601	$457	$406	$712	$678	$600	$743	$917	$1,332	$1,496	$1,565	$2,312
	Fuel/Oil	$483	$527	$551	$414	$370	$677	$635	$547	$684	$859	$1,276	$1,437	$1,505	$2,246
	Insurance	$9	$8	$6	$4	$2	$2	$10	$21	$25	$26	$23	$28	$27	$32
	Other (inc. Tax)	$25	$46	$44	$39	$33	$34	$33	$32	$34	$32	$33	$31	$32	$34
	Maintenance	$466	$489	$487	$517	$533	$648	$676	$676	$628	$629	$578	$569	$586	$587
	Labor	$70	$76	$83	$86	$96	$104	$94	$59	$57	$98	$78	$47	$46	$57
	Materials	$43	$45	$44	$45	$48	$66	$68	$65	$54	$56	$50	$57	$66	$72
	Third Party	$302	$236	$243	$237	$248	$293	$279	$257	$270	$267	$273	$287	$305	$291
	Total Direct	$415	$350	$364	$366	$387	$463	$440	$375	$378	$411	$390	$389	$405	$416
	Burden	$52	$139	$123	$151	$146	$184	$236	$300	$250	$218	$188	$179	$181	$171
	Aircraft Ownership	$461	$450	$426	$461	$501	$543	$624	$757	$693	$593	$546	$521	$506	$565
	Rentals	$372	$372	$372	$401	$412	$438	$515	$593	$557	$478	$441	$415	$394	$442
	Depreciation and Amortization	$88	$77	$54	$60	$89	$104	$109	$165	$136	$115	$105	$105	$111	$123
	Other	$5	$11	$5	$8	-$9	$10	$12	$15	$18	$15	$7	$6	$8	$10
	Indicies
	Aircraft In Fleet	267	262	265	274	279	248	222	193	180	163	149	147	147	129
	Seats Per Departure	129	126	125	125	128	125	122	121	120	118	119	120	120	120
	Average Stage Length	731	783	822	859	905	903	901	884	910	944	985	967	965	965
	Gallons of Fuel Per Block Hour	906	896	904	899	870	872	819	799	797	768	742	718	713	706
	Load Factor	63.4%	67.3%	71.0%	71.6%	71.8%	71.5%	69.4%	69.2%	71.7%	72.0%	76.1%	79.4%	79.8%	79.3%
	Daily Utilization per Aircraft
	Block Hours	9.24	9.70	9.90	9.97	10.00	9.80	9.40	8.38	8.02	8.34	9.08	9.57	10.07	9.39
	Airborne Hours	7.64	8.05	8.25	8.24	8.27	8.10	7.78	6.93	6.64	6.82	7.46	7.80	8.20	7.69
	Departures	4.46	4.39	4.31	4.16	4.00	3.90	3.74	3.40	3.17	3.15	3.30	3.47	3.65	3.41
	Large Narrowbodies	$2,215	$2,269	$2,331	$2,364	$3,311	$2,790	$2,498	$2,427	$2,915	$3,093	$3,534	$3,667	$3,791	$4,812
	(Ex Fuel)	$1,622	$1,594	$1,606	$1,815	$2,550	$1,798	$1,737	$1,758	$2,079	$2,008	$1,910	$1,806	$1,843	$1,885
	Pilots	$396	$438	$518	$572	$871	$723	$648	$549	$726	$664	$593	$537	$540	$560
	Salaries and Wages	$328	$361	$433	$493	$754	$625	$554	$463	$454	$450	$407	$379	$403	$420
	Pilot Training	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$7	$20
	Benefits and Payroll Taxes	$46	$49	$52	$44	$62	$57	$55	$53	$245	$185	$156	$126	$95	$85
	Per Diem/ Personnel	$21	$27	$33	$36	$55	$41	$38	$33	$27	$30	$30	$32	$35	$35
	Purchased Goods	$646	$750	$795	$610	$830	$1,046	$817	$730	$887	$1,132	$1,671	$1,907	$1,994	$2,975
	Fuel/Oil	$593	$674	$726	$549	$760	$992	$761	$668	$836	$1,085	$1,624	$1,861	$1,948	$2,927
	Insurance	$20	$16	$11	$8	$6	$4	$16	$23	$10	$7	$5	$5	$4	$3
	Other (inc. Tax)	$32	$59	$58	$52	$64	$50	$40	$39	$42	$40	$41	$41	$42	$44
	Maintenance	$72	$163	$130	$228	$506	$251	$317	$421	$565	$593	$583	$558	$616	$635
	Labor	$24	$39	$39	$41	$76	$64	$56	$55	$90	$110	$94	$75	$73	$92
	Materials	$12	$38	$19	$38	$54	$22	$26	$35	$45	$49	$50	$45	$56	$58
	Third Party	$20	$45	$42	$90	$251	$98	$129	$148	$207	$231	$254	$265	$299	$299
	Total Direct	$57	$120	$94	$154	$366	$179	$207	$232	$340	$387	$393	$382	$426	$448
	Burden	$15	$43	$36	$73	$139	$72	$110	$188	$225	$206	$190	$176	$190	$187
	Aircraft Ownership	$1,111	$916	$886	$950	$1,099	$766	$712	$729	$732	$699	$683	$663	$636	$635
	Rentals	$1,075	$892	$853	$856	$941	$634	$585	$580	$578	$542	$536	$519	$487	$465
	Depreciation and Amortization	$36	$24	$33	$95	$158	$132	$127	$149	$154	$158	$147	$143	$149	$170
	Other	-$10	$2	$2	$4	$5	$4	$4	-$2	$5	$4	$4	$3	$6	$7
	Indicies
	Aircraft In Fleet	14	16	20	27	34	72	97	120	119	138	147	161	165	184
	Seats Per Departure	182	182	181	180	179	169	166	165	165	167	166	167	168	168
	Average Stage Length	2,033	2,140	2,274	2,147	1,860	1,500	1,432	1,375	1,373	1,342	1,395	1,507	1,550	1,533
	Gallons of Fuel Per Block Hour	1,083	1,117	1,143	1,149	1,165	921	973	926	920	947	951	924	925	915
	Load Factor	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
	Daily Utilization per Aircraft
	Block Hours	13	13	13	12	12	12	11	11	11	10	11	12	12	11
	Airborne Hours	11	12	12	11	11	10	10	9	9	9	9	10	11	10
	Departures	3	3	3	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
	Widebodies	$4,437	$5,063	$5,325	$5,137	$4,992	$5,910	$4,881	$3,760	$4,360	$4,671	$5,667	$6,472	$6,632	$9,019
	(Ex Fuel)	$3,038	$3,346	$3,585	$3,833	$3,722	$3,738	$3,226	$2,418	$2,783	$2,498	$2,452	$2,644	$2,597	$2,795
	Pilots	$483	$548	$623	$737	$878	$938	$902	$728	$901	$872	$765	$681	$681	$749
	Salaries and Wages	$401	$462	$539	$645	$762	$813	$774	$615	$563	$590	$525	$480	$508	$562
	Pilot Training	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$9	$28
	Benefits and Payroll Taxes	$58	$62	$63	$57	$61	$71	$75	$69	$304	$242	$202	$160	$120	$113
	Per Diem/ Personnel	$24	$24	$21	$35	$56	$53	$52	$43	$34	$39	$39	$41	$44	$47
	Purchased Goods	$1,493	$1,886	$1,889	$1,434	$1,390	$2,293	$1,764	$1,460	$1,674	$2,265	$3,307	$3,922	$4,130	$6,325
	Fuel/Oil	$1,399	$1,717	$1,740	$1,304	$1,270	$2,171	$1,655	$1,342	$1,577	$2,173	$3,215	$3,828	$4,036	$6,225
	Insurance	$25	$18	$11	$5	$5	$8	$23	$40	$19	$12	$10	$10	$9	$7
	Other (inc. Tax)	$68	$151	$138	$125	$116	$113	$86	$78	$79	$80	$82	$84	$86	$94
	Maintenance	$1,582	$1,704	$1,989	$1,954	$1,417	$1,297	$848	$641	$865	$709	$806	$1,074	$1,025	$1,114
	Labor	$131	$217	$307	$244	$89	$89	$88	$88	$149	$64	$88	$138	$133	$165
	Materials	$189	$261	$247	$185	$176	$161	$97	$61	$62	$44	$57	$108	$105	$96
	Third Party	$1,107	$924	$1,186	$1,059	$782	$686	$395	$223	$313	$362	$402	$498	$480	$527
	Total Direct	$1,427	$1,217	$1,451	$1,344	$1,029	$931	$558	$356	$520	$463	$544	$735	$707	$785
	Burden	$156	$539	$565	$610	$388	$367	$290	$285	$345	$246	$263	$339	$318	$329
	Aircraft Ownership	$809	$939	$866	$1,093	$1,291	$1,340	$1,425	$976	$911	$817	$827	$834	$833	$832
	Rentals	$643	$728	$539	$655	$760	$802	$778	$544	$501	$445	$463	$464	$447	$427
	Depreciation and Amortization	$166	$211	$327	$437	$531	$539	$646	$433	$410	$373	$364	$370	$386	$405
	Other	$70	-$13	-$42	-$81	$15	$41	-$58	-$45	$9	$8	-$39	-$38	-$37	-$1
	Indicies
	Aircraft In Fleet	19	16	28	36	42	39	38	39	40	42	41	42	42	45
	Seats Per Departure	265	253	249	249	258	264	253	243	242	244	245	247	247	248
	Average Stage Length	2,428	3,429	3,379	3,328	3,698	3,966	3,618	3,712	3,537	3,711	3,989	4,266	4,315	4,589
	Gallons of Fuel Per Block Hour	2,526	2,744	2,759	2,745	2,602	2,457	2,071	1,886	1,880	1,880	1,870	1,894	1,889	1,901
	Load Factor	74.9%	76.2%	76.1%	74.1%	74.4%	76.0%	72.4%	76.7%	75.9%	80.3%	79.3%	79.5%	80.7%	78.5%
	Daily Utilization per Aircraft
	Block Hours	10.05	10.32	9.27	10.38	11.11	12.04	12.58	12.54	13.32	14.18	14.68	14.22	14.88	14.03
	Airborne Hours	9.05	9.46	8.46	9.43	10.14	11.03	11.53	11.60	12.29	13.09	13.56	13.18	13.77	13.49
	Departures	1.87	1.43	1.30	1.48	1.44	1.46	1.65	1.62	1.79	1.83	1.77	1.60	1.65	1.49
	Total Fleet	$2,042	$2,138	$2,281	$2,404	$2,526	$2,983	$2,857	$2,681	$3,078	$3,238	$3,695	$3,888	$3,998	$5,235
	(Ex Fuel)	$1,490	$1,533	$1,616	$1,879	$1,999	$2,046	$2,053	$1,972	$2,188	$2,053	$1,935	$1,879	$1,892	$1,987
	Pilots	$400	$415	$472	$602	$642	$651	$653	$552	$728	$680	$606	$544	$547	$577
	Salaries and Wages	$330	$342	$393	$518	$555	$563	$560	$467	$455	$460	$415	$384	$408	$433
	Pilot Training	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$7	$21
	Benefits and Payroll Taxes	$47	$48	$47	$46	$46	$51	$55	$53	$246	$189	$159	$128	$97	$87
	Per Diem/ Personnel	$22	$26	$31	$38	$41	$37	$38	$33	$27	$31	$31	$32	$35	$36
	Purchased Goods	$592	$667	$725	$579	$578	$987	$860	$774	$952	$1,244	$1,818	$2,067	$2,164	$3,309
	Fuel/Oil	$552	$606	$665	$525	$527	$937	$804	$709	$890	$1,185	$1,760	$2,009	$2,106	$3,248
	Insurance	$11	$9	$7	$4	$3	$3	$14	$24	$18	$15	$13	$14	$13	$13
	Other (inc. Tax)	$29	$53	$53	$50	$47	$47	$42	$41	$44	$44	$45	$44	$45	$49
	Maintenance	$518	$534	$583	$647	$642	$638	$590	$575	$642	$628	$619	$641	$668	$697
	Labor	$71	$81	$98	$99	$93	$93	$82	$62	$85	$97	$87	$74	$73	$93
	Materials	$51	$57	$59	$60	$65	$68	$59	$53	$52	$51	$51	$59	$67	$68
	Third Party	$340	$261	$305	$313	$316	$298	$249	$212	$253	$268	$286	$308	$329	$333
	Total Direct	$462	$383	$433	$453	$467	$457	$386	$319	$386	$410	$417	$439	$461	$492
	Burden	$56	$154	$153	$194	$176	$182	$205	$256	$256	$218	$202	$202	$206	$205
	Aircraft Ownership	$524	$512	$501	$578	$668	$694	$754	$779	$744	$678	$655	$637	$619	$646
	Rentals	$434	$431	$426	$473	$515	$529	$570	$581	$556	$499	$487	$473	$447	$452
	Depreciation and Amortization	$90	$81	$75	$105	$153	$165	$184	$198	$188	$178	$168	$164	$172	$194
	Other	$9	$9	$1	-$2	-$4	$12	$1	$0	$11	$9	-$2	-$2	$0	$7
	Indicies
	Aircraft In Fleet	300	294	313	338	355	360	357	352	339	343	336	349	353	358
	Seats Per Departure	144	140	144	148	155	157	157	159	162	166	166	167	167	171
	Average Stage Length	817	882	959	1,034	1,107	1,154	1,178	1,216	1,266	1,320	1,381	1,423	1,443	1,492
	Gallons of Fuel Per Block Hour	1,027	1,017	1,079	1,126	1,123	1,082	1,027	1,005	1,023	1,039	1,027	998	995	1,009
	Load Factor	65.9%	68.3%	71.5%	72.2%	73.1%	74.4%	72.4%	74.2%	75.7%	77.8%	79.8%	81.5%	82.1%	81.2%
	Daily Utilization per Aircraft
	Block Hours	9.45	9.93	10.06	10.19	10.33	10.48	10.26	9.59	9.59	9.91	10.58	11.12	11.65	11.04
	Airborne Hours	7.91	8.34	8.50	8.58	8.71	8.88	8.74	8.10	8.04	8.45	9.06	9.51	9.96	9.62
	Departures	4.21	4.13	3.93	3.73	3.58	3.51	3.38	3.10	3.00	2.97	3.05	3.09	3.19	2.98