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General Chat / Airlines Ordering Small Aircraft

« on: February 27, 2008, 04:32:23 am »

Run the #'s

Money sitting in your bank account isn't earning anything.  By the time you saved up for a larger a/c w/o using smaller a/c, the smaller a/c would have earned its acquisition cost back, and then some, plus your resale/lease

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General Chat / Load and profit: does the algorithm make any sense?

« on: February 27, 2008, 04:17:24 am »

Something should be done about long haul routes, it isn't very realistic.  International routes are the most profitable for airlines (in the real world), here they aren't so much.  I just looked up a ticket from O'Hare to Narita... around $1,500 for economy class, $12,000 first class round trip on a B777.

I tried running a B747 on the same route and my average price was ~e600 (cant remember exactly), one way.

Edit- just looked up O'Hare -d-> Hong Kong... $27,000