Yeah I saw that after I posted (I misread it as revenue because that is what makes sense), I assume that's (revenue is) what the GP meant, and am realizing now that maybe the 1-2 orders magnitude comment was about the disparity between revenue and profit.

The airline business is notoriously unprofitable, so yeah, the amount of revenue required to make a billion dollars profit would be something absurd, possibly more than the entire industry on many years