There's no way it would take $700/passenger for fuel to fly from LAX to Northern Europe.. Even if you do assume a 747-400.. Add an hour for a flight from LAX

There's no way it would take $700/passenger for fuel to fly from LAX to Northern Europe.. Even if you do assume a 747-400.. Add an hour for a flight from LAX to London and you get ~12hrs flight time to get to Sweden or Denmark. Some approx numbers: 1,000kg for taxi / rollout, 15,000kg to take off and get to cruising altitude, 10,000kg/hr average at altitude, another 5,000kg for landing/taxi.. You'd be looking at roughly 125,000kg of fuel burned for a flight of that distance. A gallon of Jet A weighs ~3.1kg which would correspond to roughly 40,000 gallons of fuel per flight. The average cost of Jet-A as paid by commercial airlines in 2015 is $2/gallon. [1] In summary, it would cost about $80,000 in fuel for that flight, if you had a 90% full airliner of 600 people, the per-ticket fuel cost is only $133. Wiki confirms the approximate numbers where they list the 747-400 at 72mi/us gallon/seat (only showing 415 seats on the airplane). A 5,500-mile flight from LAX to Sweden would then take 31,000 gallons of fuel, which again at $2 would cost $62,000 or $150/seat. [1] - http://www.transtats.bts.gov/fuel.asp http://www.transtats.bts.gov/fuel.asp [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft#Long_haul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft#Long_...