Viennair: not playing a fair game
Rawrmaster:
think of it this way, there are 120 pax spread between 12 hours of the day.
the 1pm pax don't want to wake up at 6am to fly, the 6am pax don't have time to wait until 1pm to fly... by increasing frequency, the sum of your pax will be greater but your aircraft will be less full. To compensate, you fly a smaller aircraft. It's a much better idea than to force someone to fly 12 hours earlier because it's eaiser to fly a bigger plane.
Curse:
And if you go bankrupt because your small jet aircrafts aren't earning some money, then pax can't fly at any time :)
But you're right, with current fuel prices there is no problem for small jets, but with fuel prices >$250 they have problems (I saw this e.g. at IbizAir).
coatedmoney:
Quote from: Curse on April 21, 2010, 10:07:01 PM
And if you go bankrupt because your small jet aircrafts aren't earning some money, then pax can't fly at any time :)
But you're right, with current fuel prices there is no problem for small jets, but with fuel prices >$250 they have problems (I saw this e.g. at IbizAir).
I dont fully agree there are many other factors to consider than just fuel.
eg C checks on a CRJ are 200K an ATR 500K - 300K is alot of money
you have the speed of more routes so can return more. usually a good wait time in production and a all round great fleet (cant wait for the 900 to come) my fleet of CRJ's are highly profitable, and i use them most of the time in game worlds and none have ever sent me bankrupt.
fuel is a important factor but there are many others that you should consider! you should give them a try sometime curse
Curse:
You're right, but let me explain what I mean.
I think the small CRJ are like 737-600 or A318.
You use them, because you have the commonality with bigger planes. But for their own they are not very efficient (compare fuel/maintenance per pax at 737-600 and 737-800/-900), especially on routes with enough demand for bigger planes.
This must not mean they are getting you in trouble. However, at the end a good mixed fleet might be the best (noticed this as some of my Airbus lost market share because of pax prefer smaller aircraft. Adding some Fokker50 has fixed the problem).
But, yeah, I'll give them a try at my "regional" airline in MT#2.
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