From: "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: AGA Advisory Committee <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
To: AGA Advisory Committee <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
CC: Ivo Bushko <busko@stsci.edu>
Subject: Re: [AGA-mcm] Latest numbers
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:30:09 -0700 (PDT)
The tricky part with the rentals is that crossing over from
n number of vehicles to n+1 can turn the event from net
profit to net loss unless you get enough folks to make the
additional vehicle pay for itself.
It's too hard to say how many vehicles will be needed
until we have a better idea how many FTs we're likely to
get.
But at any time, given the cost of vehicles, one can
calculate the total net revenue/loss for any number of FTs.
That will let us know when we need to cut off the FTs.
Complicating that calculation is whether the drivers will
be paid FTs or comped volunteers -- last year, iirc, we
had drivers that didn't attend the convention except to
pitch in as drivers and we didn't charge them for an FT but
they took up a seat ;-) Simplifying the whole thing is the
fact that, above a certain number of FTs, adding an
additinal vehicle won't turn the FTs from net plus to net
negative :-)
sh
--- Ghazanfar Ghori <ghazanfarghori@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Oh - almost forgot to mention. We're probably not going
> to be
> doing vans. I'm looking into chartering a 55 passenger
> bus - getting
> rates and starting negotiations. Depending on the final
> number,
> we'll suppliment the transportation arrangement with an
> appropriate
> solution.
>
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