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Rent another gate OR create another base?

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on: June 17, 2009, 04:01:06 pm
As  mentioned in my topic subject, I want to find out what will be more profitable for a new airline like myself: I currently have one base airport/city at which I have 1 gate (10 slots). I now have 9 domestic flights operating from this base, which means to create more routes, I either have to rent another gate with 10 slots or create another base in another city, but not sure which one will be more profitable now. The problem is, the remaining domestic airports in the rest of the country have got really low passenger numbers (10 000 and below) which might be a bad thing if I create the routes and not make any profit. I am still fairly new and been doing well so far and would like to keep it like that if possible, so I need some advise from the experienced airlines.


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Reply #1 on: June 17, 2009, 04:08:22 pm
Rent a new gate- you don't sound ready to open a new Hub.


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Reply #2 on: June 17, 2009, 05:18:07 pm
Thanks, even though the passenger numbers are low at the rest of the airports?


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Reply #3 on: June 17, 2009, 05:38:51 pm
that depends on how many pax your hub has.


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Reply #4 on: June 17, 2009, 06:34:12 pm
About 7,800,000


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Reply #5 on: June 17, 2009, 07:14:14 pm
Rent more gates and start flying to close destinations within the 1000mi range. With the right aircraft you're for sure able to make some nice profits.


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Reply #6 on: June 17, 2009, 07:33:31 pm
Yes, rent another gate. In any world, I don't consider creating a new base till I have saturated the 1000 nm market or get a decent DOC of 6-7 million


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Reply #7 on: June 17, 2009, 08:14:06 pm
Yes ... i would rent another gate and would open a new base until my DOC is around 5,000,000 € .


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Reply #8 on: June 17, 2009, 08:57:47 pm
Ok, thanks. I just rented another gate at my current HUB.


 

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