system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How is it that Air Force One can cost well over $200000 an hour to operate (as is claimed), when commercial airlines must obviously operate 747s at a small fraction of this cost?
gpt
Because the articles that say that are being intentionally misleading. It costs $200,000 an hour to operate air force one because they are dividing the entire cost of the air plane, the crew, and service by the number of hours it will be in use.

Air Force One is a very expense air plane that gets used very infrequently. It if was used more often, it would cost *less* based on that calculation.