Airline Mogul Forum
Airline Mogul => General Chat => Topic started by: IonWorks on November 07, 2007, 07:52:10 pm
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I've only been playing for a few weeks, and just took delivery of my first Lockheed Super Constellation. I'm having a little bit of trouble figuring out how to maximize revenue for these puppies. For my first plane, I did one long-haul route, and filled-in the rest of the hours with some short-haul routes. If I take the purchase price and divide by the current DOP for the plane, I get a complete ROI after 6.6 [RL] days. Does that sound about right? It's much longer than it takes for me to recoup the purchase price of the smaller planes, so I was curious if 6.6 days is a good, medium, or bad number, in your experience.
Thanks!
David
IonWorks
AirlineID: 6654
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6.6... Thats not bad, decent. If you are only a start-up airline, I would suggest using the plane on short, and mid range routes, this way you could maximize the potential profit of the aircraft.
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Small planes are nearly always better investments in term of ROI. It is just that at a certain point you would run out of short-haul destinations.
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and you'd also have trouble because of the 100 or so routes you have to update daily... believe me, I've experienced this :oops:
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Hm, my best Lockheed is 9.5 real days (DOP 240k)! Love the Comet: 2.3 and a better DOP of 344k. Seven out of the ten best aircrafts (by DOP) are Comets and just three of them are Lockheeds.