There&#x27;s no way it would take $700&#x2F;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.<p>Some approx numbers:<p>1,000kg for taxi &#x2F; rollout, 15,000kg to take off and get to cruising altitude, 10,000kg&#x2F;hr average at altitude, another 5,000kg for landing&#x2F;taxi..<p>You&#x27;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&#x2F;gallon. [1]<p>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.<p>Wiki confirms the approximate numbers where they list the 747-400 at 72mi&#x2F;us gallon&#x2F;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&#x2F;seat.<p>[1] - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.transtats.bts.gov&#x2F;fuel.asp" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.transtats.bts.gov&#x2F;fuel.asp</a><p>[2] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fuel_economy_in_aircraft#Long_haul" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fuel_economy_in_aircraft#Long_...</a>