ROI on Super Constellations

IonWorks · **on:** November 07, 2007, 07:52:10 pm

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

pTr · **Reply #1 on:** November 07, 2007, 08:07:47 pm

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.

dktc · **Reply #2 on:** November 07, 2007, 09:10:53 pm

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.

Blue Sky Mine · **Reply #3 on:** November 11, 2007, 04:21:33 pm

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:

AirHanoverInternational · **Reply #4 on:** November 12, 2007, 11:32:04 am

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.