Continental Airline Tickets

how much is the fuel bill for a typical airline flight?!?!?!?

for ex. SAN-JFK ....on any airline ...American, United, Delta, Continental, ETC.

Public Comments

1. A plane like a Boeing 747 uses approximately 1 gallon of fuel (about 4 liters) every second. Over the course of a 10-hour flight, it might burn 36,000 gallons (150,000 liters). According to Boeing's Web site, the 747 burns approximately 5 gallons of fuel per mile (12 liters per kilometer).
2. the question,though valid , is a little too general. Fuel burn on aircraft, especially commercial ones is typically messured in pounds per hour or pounds per minute consumed. Also it needs to be understood that a jet engine on take-off running at +/- 110% power consumes much more fuel than when it cruising at 40%-50% at 20,000 t0 30,000 ft. Some thirty years ago I would typically load 30.000 to 60.000 lbs. onto a DC-9 for the typical 500 to 1,000 mile flight.
3. SAN-JFK is about 2500 miles. This is approximately an 5-hour flight. A Boeing 737 burns about 1000 gallons in a hour, so it would need about 5000 gallons (33500 ponds) of fuel. A gallon of jet fuel costs about 200 cents, so the fuel bill is approximately 1000 dollars. A Boeing 777 burns about 3000 gallons per hour, so it would need 3 times as much fuel.