777s bleeding cash
LemonButt:
Anyone else have this problem? I have nine 777 and they are bleeding cash at these fuel prices (over $1000). Even at default prices and 90% load factors I'm running 200-300k in the red. The leases are ~$3 million and I know that's what's doing it, but wow this is bad.
ICEcold:
that's your problem-you shouldn't be flying the wide-bodies that guzzle fuel at those prices. In ATB1, I had a small airline in Taiwan flying MD-90-30ERs and Avro RJ85s around Taiwan, when I got news that my "parent airline" (it was a partner deal with blumage-he would be Asian Connection and I would be his regional airline-Asian CityJet) had to cut a lot of route because of extreme fuel prices. I was shocked, as I was actually making MORE from the higher fuel prices because I could lower my prices a lot on competitive routes and still lower prices on non-competitive routes, while the other airline (the only airline I was competing against was Kaohsiung Connect) had to raise prices on his route because he had bigger, wide-bodied aircraft to tend to. By the time the game ended (which was only 3 years later game-time), I had actually bought more planes during that time (physically bought, as in paying 43m each) than any other time during the game, and finished with only 6 planes to buy-and I forgot to buy them all as I had enough to buy them. that's what you should do: cut the WBs and stick with the NBs. that'll get you through the fuel prices. ;)
Cheers,
ICEcold
Unbornio:
Quote from: LemonButt on January 14, 2010, 12:02:49 AM
Anyone else have this problem? I have nine 777 and they are bleeding cash at these fuel prices (over $1000). Even at default prices and 90% load factors I'm running 200-300k in the red. The leases are ~$3 million and I know that's what's doing it, but wow this is bad.
No. Last time I saw your airline (I quit Rise of Modern Airliners yesterday), you had 3 or 4 types of aircraft and like 5 of each..? Maintenance is killing you. If you have 2+ fleet types = double maintenance costs.
LemonButt:
I'm paying $12.5 million/month for 54 aircraft which comes out to ~$231k per aircraft per month, which I didn't think was too terrible all things considered. I've got 4 fleets--747,757,777,Dash-8 and ten 777 are only $4 million/month for maintenance, which is ~400k per plane or $100k/week.
ukatlantic:
777 fleet is a nightmare currently - I have owned ones and they are at 90% load factor and all routes are profitable but fuel price is killing nay profit - my leased ones are running huge losses - possibly cheaper to cut the routes and ground them no fuel or engineering costs to worry about then :-\
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