CRJ 100/200 Test Airline

[type45]

it seems that unless sami can make something like what's the regional airlines doing now (code share with bigger airlines and use their CI), an airline with only RJ is not possible to live for  a long time

I've try to think about this and how can it be done......but this may lead to competition of slots in the same base airport?

[RushmoreAir]

Day 706 from Founding

Since last time, I made enough money to order 3 brand-new CRJ-200s.  Two of these have arrived, both going on the OMA-ORD sector with 4x daily + a 6x weekly on each.  They both make $200k per week.  The weekly profit is because of ORD slot costs, normally it is now $250k, as opposed to the $200k I was earning last time.

I have been doing this long enough to make a few conclusions about running a CRJ-only airline.  More conclusions will come later.

1)  Regional Aircraft are only marginally profitable, even in the best case scenario.  No matter how you cut it, each aircraft is only marginally profitable.  

2)  Pack the schedule!!!  The only way to make it even break-even with overhead is to make the schedule look like a barcode.  This has been said before, but my SLC plane (3x daily SLC) only makes $75k/week while my MDW plane (5x daily MDW) makes 220k per week.  Even putting it on 100 mile sectors with a 50% load factor is better than using it to the full extent of its range.

3)  Slots are expensive.  I never truly realized this before, but slots are extremely expensive for regional aircraft.  Scheduling the O'Hare routes, I spent $250k per route for a week's worth of slots.  And ORD had ~25 slots left when I wanted to get mine.  That's really expensive for an airline only making $250k/week.


STATS:

Cash - $165,264
Wk Profit - $1,399,180
CI - 30
Routes - STL, FSD, ORD, MDW, DEN, PIR, DSM, MCI, SLC, MSP, DTW
Load Factor - 80.1%
Current Aircraft - 8
Aircraft on Order - 1
Fuel - $234

[Bolier Dweller]

What ever happen to this test?

[RushmoreAir]

What ever happen to this test?

To be honest, I didn't spend the time scheduling a new batch of CRJs.  I still have three to schedule.

The airline is just limping along, breaking even, but I didn't feel that it was a fair assessment of the experiment if I hadn't scheduled the planes.  So I didn't bother posting.   

As soon as I get the planes scheduled, I can post some new info.