The Concorde

[Ilyushin]

I see there's a Concorde on the used market right now.

I was wondering if it is even possible to make a profit with it in this game.
It is a real gas guzzler, worse than the Ruskis. It carries only 108 pax.
Do the passengers in AirwaySim care enough about speed to pay for an expensive Concorde flight?

[RushmoreAir]

No.  And the fleet commonality costs are terrible.  Don't even go there.

[Ilyushin]

Alright, I guessed so. It has apparently been sold already.

[swiftus27]

The Concorde will bankrupt you. 

I asked for a feature awhile back that will allow you to have 1-3 a/c that are a part of your landmark fleet.  It is just not fair that this beauty can simply not be used effectively. 

First off, I have no idea how you could fly one in an all Y setting and make a profit.  The sim was changed due to the Magic Carpet rule so that you can not effectively put all F/C seating on your LH planes.

For instance, if your price is $500 and a non concorde is also $500 for the same flight, 100% of those customers should fly it.  That's just not the case here.

[Sami]

you can not effectively put all F/C seating on your LH planes.

You can but CI must be high enough. (over 60 or 70 at least?)

Fix concerned only startup tactic of using full C/F planes

[Ilyushin]

So there's really no method to fly the Concorde (and/or Tu-144) with a profit? Shame...

[swiftus27]

only if fuel is really cheap. 

[ArcherII]

The only purpose of the concorde when fuel price went to a spike in the 70s and beyond was marketing. And in AWS the object marketing or wow-factor is not modeled.
So if you have a big and gross route and you have an A380, people won't mind travelling on it or in an old 762.

[Daemus]

I know this isn't the features request forum so we will just call this brainstorming and not a full request, but after reading this thread I couldn't resist suggesting a passive CI or RI boost from having a Concorde in a fleet AND scheduled.

Would give some justification for those of us who really want to have one of these flying but can't push ourselves to intentionally make a bad business decision. 

[RainbowSevenNine]

I have one on order, purely for the kudos of having it, although I will be use putting used £££ in te fuel tanks and burning them instead of fuel as its more effective!