06-05-2019, 02:31 PM
To those who struggle:
Pick an HQ with 20mil PAX or above (10-15mil is also possible, but a little harder)
Pick destinations for your planes which means they fly daily to that destination.
Make sure each plane makes between 1 and 4 legs a day and routes that are as close to 24 or 48 hours as possible. The more your plane is in the air the better.
Raise prices by 10 to 25% (You can increase your prices more aggressively early on) each time you hit a 100% load factor.
Plane configuration wise, Business class -> Prem Econ -> First -> Econ in that order of importance
Routes up to 4 hours can be done with basic seats and maxed IFE & IFS while maintaining 100% rep, between 4 & 12 hours can be done with regular seats, 12+ with premium seats.
These are just a few core points and with those you should be able to be profitable within 2 to 3 days even with maxed out marketing. Of course this does depend on the plane you pick, expensive inefficient planes will not help.
It is really not hard to get going, my restart airline is 10 days old I started with 5 A220-300 leased and 1 777-200 brought and I just brought a second 777-200.
Pick an HQ with 20mil PAX or above (10-15mil is also possible, but a little harder)
Pick destinations for your planes which means they fly daily to that destination.
Make sure each plane makes between 1 and 4 legs a day and routes that are as close to 24 or 48 hours as possible. The more your plane is in the air the better.
Raise prices by 10 to 25% (You can increase your prices more aggressively early on) each time you hit a 100% load factor.
Plane configuration wise, Business class -> Prem Econ -> First -> Econ in that order of importance
Routes up to 4 hours can be done with basic seats and maxed IFE & IFS while maintaining 100% rep, between 4 & 12 hours can be done with regular seats, 12+ with premium seats.
These are just a few core points and with those you should be able to be profitable within 2 to 3 days even with maxed out marketing. Of course this does depend on the plane you pick, expensive inefficient planes will not help.
It is really not hard to get going, my restart airline is 10 days old I started with 5 A220-300 leased and 1 777-200 brought and I just brought a second 777-200.