Break-Even Sales and Sales Mix for a Service Company

Zero Turbulence Airline provides air transportation services between Los Angeles, California, and Kona, Hawaii. A single Los Angeles to Kona round-trip flight has the following operating statistics:

Fuel	$13,160
Flight crew salaries	10,080
Airplane depreciation	4,760
Variable cost per passengerbusiness class	65
Variable cost per passengereconomy class	50
Round-trip ticket pricebusiness class	545
Round-trip ticket priceeconomy class	280

It is assumed that the fuel, crew salaries, and airplane depreciation are fixed, regardless of the number of seats sold for the round-trip flight.

a. Compute the break-even number of seats sold on a single round-trip flight for the overall enterprise product, E. Assume that the overall product mix is 20% business class and 80% economy class tickets.

Break-Even Sales and Sales Mix for a Service Company Zero Turbulence Airline provides air transportation services between Los Angeles, California, and Kona, Hawaii. A single Los Angeles to Kona round-trip flight has the following operating statistics: Fuel $13,160 Flight crew salaries 10,080 4,760 Airplane depreciation Variable cost per passenger-business class 65 50 Variable cost per passenger-economy class Round-trip ticket price-business class 545 Round-trip ticket price-economy class 280 It is assumed that the fuel, crew salaries, and airplane depreciation are fixed, regardless of the number of seats sold for the round-trip flight. a. Compute the break-even number of seats sold on a single round-trip flight for the overall enterprise product, E. Assume that the overall product mix is 20% business class and 80% economy class tickets. Total number of seats at break-even seats b. How many business class and economy class seats would be sold at the break-even point? Business class seats at break-even seats Economy class seats at break-even seats