Product Costing and Decision Analysis for a Service Company
Blue Star Airline provides passenger airline service, using
small jets. The airline connects four major cities: Charlotte,
Pittsburgh, Detroit, and San Francisco. The company expects to fly
170,000 miles during a month. The following costs are budgeted for
a month:
Fuel | $2,120,000 |
Ground personnel | 788,500 |
Crew salaries | 850,000 |
Depreciation | 430,000 |
Total costs | $4,188,500 |
Blue Star management wishes to assign these costs to individual
flights in order to gauge the profitability of its service
offerings. The following activity bases were identified with the
budgeted costs:
Airline Cost | Activity Base |
Fuel, crew, and depreciation costs | Number of miles flown |
Ground personnel | Number of arrivals and departures at an airport |
The size of the company's ground operation in each city is
determined by the size of the workforce. The following monthly data
are available from corporate records for each terminal
operation:
Terminal City | Ground Personnel Cost | Number of Arrivals/Departures | |||||||
Charlotte | $256,000 | 320 | |||||||
Pittsburgh | 97,500 | 130 | |||||||
Detroit | 129,000 | 150 | |||||||
San Francisco | 306,000 | 340 | |||||||
Total | $788,500 | 940 |
Three recent representative flights have been selected for the
profitability study. Their characteristics are as
follows:
Description | Miles Flown | Number of Passengers | Ticket Price per Passenger | ||||
Flight 101 | Charlotte to San Francisco | 2,000 | 80 | $695.00 | |||
Flight 102 | Detroit to Charlotte | 800 | 50 | 441.50 | |||
Flight 103 | Charlotte to Pittsburgh | 400 | 20 | 382.00 |
Required:
1. Determine the fuel, crew, and depreciation
cost per mile flown.
$ per mile
2. Determine the cost per arrival or departure by terminal city.
Charlotte | $ |
Pittsburgh | $ |
Detroit | $ |
San Francisco | $ |
3. Use the information in (1) and (2) to construct a profitability report for the three flights. Each flight has a single arrival and departure to its origin and destination city pairs. Enter all amounts as positive numbers, except for a negative income from operations.
Blue Star Airline | |||
Flight Profitability Report | |||
For Three Representative Flights | |||
Flight 101 | Flight 102 | Flight 103 | |
Passenger revenue | $ | $ | $ |
Fuel, crew, and depreciation costs | $ | $ | $ |
Ground personnel | |||
$ | $ | $ | |
Flight income from operations | $ | $ | $ |
4. Evaluate flight profitability by determining the break-even number of passengers required for each flight assuming all the costs of a flight are fixed. Round to the nearest whole number.
Flight | Approximate Break-Even in Number of Passengers | |
101 | passengers | |
102 | passengers | |
103 | passengers |
Solution:-
1. Determine the fuel, crew, and depreciation cost per mile flown.
per mile
total cost = $850,000 +$2,120,000 +$430,000
=$3,400,000/170,000
=$20 per mile
2)
2. Determine the cost per arrival or departure by terminal city.
Terminal city | Ground personnel cost | No of arrival/departures | Cost per arrive |
Charlotte | $256,000 | 320 | $800 |
Pittusburgh | 97,500 | 130 | $750 |
Detroit | 129,000 | 150 | $860 |
San Francisco | 306,000 | 340 | $900 |
3)
Flight 101 | Flight 102 | flight 103 | |
Sales | $55,600 | $22,075 | $7640 |
Less: Expense | |||
Fuel & crew and dep @20 | (40,000) | (16,000) | (8000) |
Ground personnel cost | (1700) | (1660) | (1550) |
tota cost | ($41,700) | ($17,660) | ($9550) |
income | $13,900 | $4,415 | (1910) |
4) Break even = Fixed cost
Let number of passengers be X
flight101 41,700/695 = 60 passengers
Flight 102 17,660/441.50 = 40 passengers
Flight 103 9550/382 = 25 passengers
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