How much cash do you keep?

[zkvac]

I normally come home to enough cash to buy another 733 and I spend the remainder on ATRs/ opening a new base (W140). What's the point in having money on AM if you don't spend it? You can't do anything else with it.

[RREF Matrix Air]

i used to spend it all when i was expanding, but now i earn so much cash each day/(hour), i only order about 20 atr 72-200s when i need them 24 hours in advanced

[zenmen5]

one billion saved, i cant fill up on all the hours on 100 planes so i am going to wait till some big planes come

[RREF Matrix Air]

big planes aren't profitable, you should stick to medium sized planes if you want to outgrow your competitors

[cameron1991]

It all depends on whether I'm expanding my airlines or not.
If I'm expanding, I usually wait until the end of the game month before doing a big spend up on a large order of aircraft.
If I'm not expanding, I just let the cash roll in and save it all for later, or I if I get bored I buy a whole lot of long haul aircraft. In W10, I currently have  €6,105,069,700, which I'm about to spend on 77Ws to replace my aging fleet of 772s, some of which are nearly 8 years old! 

[zenmen5]

2 billion and counting

[Dooskie III]

40b in cash right now and nothing to spend it on. 

[pp123123]

I spend it as soon as possible~
Now DOP is around 20million
and my bank balance is only 15million.

[seafly4fun]

I spend it! But rarely spend enough to where I am in the red. I am a responsible airline owner

[Thecrusader]

2 and a half billion and counting

[skywaker9]

Especially if you have an aggressive plan for spending the cash (such as increasing your route network and buying new planes), going in the red is no big deal.  One of my airlines (worth $1.5B) went very slightly in the red today for one turn.  Its no big deal because I know I'll get out of it very quickly....

[peterkirby]

Hey,

I'd suggest that having 600million cash on hand when you are only getting 6million profit from routes per hour is quite extravagant/lazy... it means not doing anything with your money for over 100 hours (more than 4 days), which makes no sense, especially because an airline with only 6million profit from routes per hour should still have ample opportunity for aggressive expansion.

I'd suggest that a more rewarding strategy would have been to do something such as:

(1) Look at bank balance of 120 million or so when you get online.
(2) Order aircraft so that you have about 1 million on hand.
(3) Look at the aircraft you have with unused hours.
(4) Rent gates at your hubs so that you can assign all of these planes to routes. (This is because you can go only slightly in the red when buying more than 1 gate at an airport.)
(5) By this time you will be negative. Continue going negative with the single "OCP" purchase of destinations and assignment of planes.
(6) By the end of this, you might be in the red for 20 or 30 million, but you will have increased your profit from routes per hour by a million or two.

That means 24-48 million more when you log on the next day to do it again (and for the indefinite future, since you now are pulling down 7-8 million instead of 6).

(Apologies for resurrecting a semi-moribund thread...)