Airline Mogul => General Chat => Topic started by: AustraliaConnect on April 27, 2008, 01:24:11 am
Title: What would you buy with 100 mil?
Post by: AustraliaConnect on April 27, 2008, 01:24:11 am
If you had 100 mil. What planes would you buy...or what plane would you save up for???
Title: What would you buy with 100 mil?
Post by: Pacific on April 27, 2008, 01:58:39 am
Depends on your mission profile.
New focus city invasion = 9x HS748Es. Jet service to small airports = 4x Fokker F28-1000. Mainline jet service to medium-large cities: 3x Caravelle 10Bs.
Title: What would you buy with 100 mil?
Post by: zkvac on April 27, 2008, 02:17:43 am
Routes from Europe or USA large base to other large cities? Airbus A320-200 :D
Title: What would you buy with 100 mil?
Post by: AustraliaConnect on April 27, 2008, 02:19:23 am
In World 3...
Title: What would you buy with 100 mil?
Post by: yourefired on April 27, 2008, 02:19:49 am
Unfortunately the A320 isn't available in the 80's.... :cry:
Oh well, at least the 757 comes on in 1983.
Title: What would you buy with 100 mil?
Post by: Fleur-de-Lis on April 27, 2008, 03:17:54 am
Depends entirely on the mission objective.
Pacific, gave a good answer above.
Or; you could buy all of my Aérospatiale N 262's. That could very well turn into 160 destinations, carrying a total of 4,640 passengers - 16 gates filled right there. You can even fly above the competition on clogged routes with large aircraft and still turn a decent profit with that type of plane.
Title: What would you buy with 100 mil?
Post by: Steeler83 on April 27, 2008, 03:42:27 am
Let's see...
In World 3...
Well, I recently did have 100 mill, and I spent it on 2 737-100s and some F27-500s to prepare for a new focus city. 8)
Title: What would you buy with 100 mil?
Post by: yourefired on April 27, 2008, 03:45:43 am
I logged in for the first time in a day and a half, and I had about 300 million cash sitting around so I picked up 4 DC9-50s and 2 Caravelle 12s. Just opened up a new hub very close to one of my hubs.....so now my gate use is much more, um, efficient.
Biggest shopping spree.....ever.
Title: What would you buy with 100 mil?
Post by: SATA on April 27, 2008, 03:50:06 am
Id go with Pacific's post and its the planes you need for the job.
So it really depends.
Title: What would you buy with 100 mil?
Post by: yourefired on April 27, 2008, 04:01:35 am
Next on the agenda: finding a suitable 30-50 seat replacement for the Gulfstream G3 (hopefully a jet replacement), saving up for the 757, finding an international hub, and a domestic hub that isn't already saturated. Too bad the A320 isn't available in my world yet (out in 1988). Grr.
Title: What would you buy with 100 mil?
Post by: Steeler83 on April 27, 2008, 04:10:42 am
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I logged in for the first time in a day and a half, and I had about 300 million cash sitting around so I picked up 4 DC9-50s and 2 Caravelle 12s. Just opened up a new hub very close to one of my hubs.....so now my gate use is much more, um, efficient.
Biggest shopping spree.....ever.
I had something like that in either the 1990s or the 2000s round last year. I think I bought a boat load of 777s. I raked in like 1.5 billion bucks after sitting idle for a couple of days!!!
Title: What would you buy with 100 mil?
Post by: yourefired on April 27, 2008, 04:24:48 am
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I logged in for the first time in a day and a half, and I had about 300 million cash sitting around so I picked up 4 DC9-50s and 2 Caravelle 12s. Just opened up a new hub very close to one of my hubs.....so now my gate use is much more, um, efficient.
Biggest shopping spree.....ever.
I had something like that in either the 1990s or the 2000s round last year. I think I bought a boat load of 777s. I raked in like 1.5 billion bucks after sitting idle for a couple of days!!!
Given my penchant to choose Airbus over Boeing, I would have bought a boatload of A340-300s and A330-300LRs (by the way when we're talking airplanes, it's 1 or 2 planes/boat lol)! anyway, it was really cool to be able to order so many planes at once. I suspect the same thing's gonna happen again after exams when I won't have logged in for like, a week. And then I'll just pick up a boatload of 757s (as the new-gen airbuses aren't out here yet :cry:)
Oh, and then they changed the seating capacity for the DC9-40 from 90 to 125 so I had to go back and go on a route-editing spree after my little shopping spree.
Title: What would you buy with 100 mil?
Post by: CHR on April 27, 2008, 04:27:59 am
I came back after a few days away and had heaps of money, so I bought 9 MD-81s (€511,753,347)and an A300 (€139,377,122). Total: €651,130,469. In one spree I spent more than a third of my total spending on aircraft.
Title: What would you buy with 100 mil?
Post by: zkvac on April 27, 2008, 07:24:15 am
In the old 1950's round last year they gave us all $1.5bn, I bought a heap of Lockheed Starliners. Good times :D
Oop, drifting off topic :P
Title: What would you buy with 100 mil?
Post by: yourefired on April 27, 2008, 07:47:18 am
Did you buy comets too?
Title: What would you buy with 100 mil?
Post by: zkvac on April 27, 2008, 08:10:31 am
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Did you buy comets too?
Nope, I had no idea what I was doing, it was my first round.
Title: What would you buy with 100 mil?
Post by: Steeler83 on April 27, 2008, 04:24:00 pm
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Quote from: "yourefired"
I logged in for the first time in a day and a half, and I had about 300 million cash sitting around so I picked up 4 DC9-50s and 2 Caravelle 12s. Just opened up a new hub very close to one of my hubs.....so now my gate use is much more, um, efficient.
Biggest shopping spree.....ever.
I had something like that in either the 1990s or the 2000s round last year. I think I bought a boat load of 777s. I raked in like 1.5 billion bucks after sitting idle for a couple of days!!!
Given my penchant to choose Airbus over Boeing, I would have bought a boatload of A340-300s and A330-300LRs (by the way when we're talking airplanes, it's 1 or 2 planes/boat lol)! anyway, it was really cool to be able to order so many planes at once. I suspect the same thing's gonna happen again after exams when I won't have logged in for like, a week. And then I'll just pick up a boatload of 757s (as the new-gen airbuses aren't out here yet :cry:)
Oh, and then they changed the seating capacity for the DC9-40 from 90 to 125 so I had to go back and go on a route-editing spree after my little shopping spree.
By boat load of aircraft, I believe I meant a little more than 1 or 2, like at least 5 or 6 777s ;-) Like I said, I had over 1.5 billion Euros at my disposal.
Right now, I don't have nearly as much cash to burn. I had 155 million to burn, and I had already taken delivery of my first 727 and 737-200s. I bumped my DOP up to 6 million, and then I ordered 3 737-100s, and 7 Fokker F27s. Then after waiting for a little bit, I ordered another 737-100, and another F27-500. Now I have 4x 737-100s, 4x F27-100s, and 4x F27-500s. You think I'm ready to launch an arsenalt of new flights from a new focus city out of IAD? ;-)
Title: What would you buy with 100 mil?
Post by: yourefired on April 27, 2008, 10:31:10 pm
I know....I'm kidding.
And I think you're ready. But hurry before it runs out of gates. Heathrow's already out of gates in my world.
Ordered another 3 caravelles. I now officially have more planes than I know what to do with.
Title: What would you buy with 100 mil?
Post by: yourefired on April 28, 2008, 01:42:41 pm
Anyway I ordered like 12 planes and I don't konw what I'm going to do with them....I've started phasing out my smaller planes already so that should keep me busy for a while.
Title: Re: What would you buy with 100 mil?
Post by: Dan380 on April 28, 2008, 06:55:14 pm
Quote from: "AustraliaConnect"
If you had 100 mil. What planes would you buy...or what plane would you save up for???
In World 4, 100mil won't buy you much. 105mil will get you a 757. I would add it to the 100mil or so I already have in my account and buy my 2nd 767-300ER. That would leave about 35mil which would be spent on a 735 after my next payday.
Title: What would you buy with 100 mil?
Post by: Steeler83 on April 28, 2008, 07:25:17 pm
Quote from: "yourefired"
I know....I'm kidding.
And I think you're ready. But hurry before it runs out of gates. Heathrow's already out of gates in my world.
Ordered another 3 caravelles. I now officially have more planes than I know what to do with.
Well, I don't need anymore gates at LHR. I sure hope that there are enough at AMS, CDG, and FRA tho...
Title: What would you buy with 100 mil?
Post by: yourefired on April 28, 2008, 08:31:36 pm
I'd add it to the 13 million I have now (130 million in maintenance costs) and keep saving up for a 757, which is 126 million with the longer range engines.
Title: What would you buy with 100 mil?
Post by: zkvac on April 29, 2008, 10:20:13 pm
Well I had 550 million sitting there, so I bought 3 767-300ER's with GE engines meaning a range of something like 7000nm! Thinking about it, I don't really need that for Trans-Atlantic.. :?