Aviation Intelligence · Network economics

Network cost calculator

Build an aircraft’s flying day, leg by leg, and see what it costs, what it earns and where it breaks even. Each leg is priced with the same engine as the Route Cost Calculator: fuel, carbon, en-route and terminal charges, and the published tariff at every airport, with ground time charged once at each stop.

Rotation = one aircraft’s dayFlown up to 7 days a weekSeveral rotations = a networkPublic data Your input

01Aircraft & airline

One aircraft type for the whole network. Operator costs start from typical figures for the airline type; type your own to replace them.

Aircraft type Airline typeSets typical operator costs from published airline accounts. Planned load factor (%)Used on every leg unless you set one per leg. MTOW (tonnes) Seats Season (weeks)IATA summer is about 31 weeks, winter about 21.

02Rotations

A rotation is one aircraft’s day: where it starts, each leg it flies and how long it stays on the ground at each stop. Set how many days a week it flies. Add rotations for more aircraft.

03Operator costs

Applied to every leg. Block-hour costs scale with each leg’s block time.

04Assumptions

Same defaults as the Route Cost Calculator. Fuel price follows each departure airport’s region; SAF follows each departure country’s mandate.

05Leg by leg

Each leg’s time, cost and result, with block times, arrivals and departures rounded to the nearest 5 minutes. Add an average fare on every leg of a rotation to see its profit and breakeven load factor.

06Network map

Follow each rotation across a country map with clear coastlines and national borders. Arrows show flight direction; double-ring markers identify bases. Select a rotation below to focus on it.

Lower unit rateHigher unit rateOutside EUROCONTROLEUR per service unit

Country outlines and labels: Natural Earth. Enable airspace rates to overlay charging regions. Routes follow modelled great-circle tracks.

Airport names

How the network is priced

Each leg is priced on its own by the shared route engine with the same inputs as a single flight in the Route Cost Calculator. A stop is one airport visit: the tariff options you set for it apply to both the arriving and the departing flight, and quotes and your own figures are entered per movement. Ground time is charged once, as stand time on the arriving leg, so a turnaround is never counted twice. The last leg’s night stop is charged the same way if you enter one.

Block times are rounded to the nearest 5 minutes, and block-hour costs use that rounded duration. First departures and ground times are also rounded to the nearest 5 minutes, keeping every arrival and departure on a 5-minute interval. The schedule starts at the first departure and adds each leg’s rounded block time and ground time. Weekly figures multiply each rotation’s day by the days it flies; season figures multiply by the weeks in the season. The breakeven load factor uses each leg’s cost at 0% and 100% load (fuel burn and passenger charges change with load) and keeps the fares fixed.