Flying too much?

[squaregatescrub]

I currently operate two Viscounts with 3 destinations each.  Out of the 3 destinations, 1 will be always flown at the wee hours of the morning (one at 00:25 and the other at 01:45)  Should I get a THIRD a/c and fly these routes during the "right" hours? (around 5:00 - 6:00 in the morning?) 

That will decrease the profit of my first 2 a/c but is it worth it due to more passengers choosing my airline because of the favorable scehdule?  (the 3rd a/c will red my numbers too)

[Sanabas]

St Petersburg is ok, Kiev you maybe shouldn't be flying at all, if you do it should be daytime. Same for Samara. Even though they may have good load factors, they only have them because you've manually restricted the seats for sale. 15 seats sold on a 50 seat plane isn't good. You could make one of the night flights to Sochi, instead.

Actually, you're probably better off restarting. You have a grand total of 3 available routes bigger than 25 daily pax and under 1500 NM. It'll be very tough to make any sort of profit, there's only enough demand for maybe 3 medium planes.

Nothing wrong with flying to places at night, but try to only do it on routes big enough that you also fly during the day.

[squaregatescrub]

Now that you mentioned it, do you think it's a good idea to jump in on the other  Moscow airport with the bigger airlines?  Sure there will be more passengers but the competition is something I'm really concerned with.

As for why choosing the Soviet Union, it's just my preference.

[Sanabas]

Domodedovo opens in March 64, according to wiki. Not sure if it's actually been announcedin game yet, but it must be close. You could experiment until then, maybe try 17 seat Herons on the smaller routes and see how they go, and then switch when it opens. *edit* Didn't look closely enough. First service in March 64, but official opening not until May 65. So a little under 2 game years away. */edit*

If your airline is efficient, comp isn't such a big issue. And SVO can probably support 300+ planes, whereas Vnukovo can currently support about 3. Soviet Union is somewhat tough this early. Because it's very spread out, everywhere except SVO is practically 100% domestic, and there aren't many big routes. So you need planes with both ok range and the ability to fly 30-50 pax routes while still being profitable. CV-240s might be a decent plane to start, and then try and switch over to something like NAMC.

[squaregatescrub]

I guess I'll try the risk and move to SVO and try to milk some cash off of the international routes.  Thanks for the advice good sir!