Operating Costs

[Dokhu]

Since the new operating costs went live, has anyone also noticed a drop off on passenger numbers, flights that used to 100% full are now sometime 0 passengers.

Maybe flying between two large airports to get the highest passengers demand in first class.

[Unknown98]

Any idea on how to get a profit from an Embraer 140/145 series?

Depends on the airports you're flying to I suppose, and the loadfactors you're getting... just bought one to test it out and between LAX-SFO it is making a profit of about $3.5k with 100% load. But those are popular airports.

You may have to raise prices. With a max load of only 50 seats it's quite limited in capacity, and with operating costs now acting almost as a fixed cost per-flight, it makes it more difficult to make up the difference in revenue. The way ticket pricing affects the demand formula can work in your favor with smaller aircraft, because while higher prices lower demand, if the demand is still more than the amount of seats you are selling, you can maintain high loadfactors despite higher prices. Larger aircraft are more affected by higher ticket prices than smaller aircraft.

[Unknown98]

A new per-flight maintenance formula was just implemented. This will lower per flight maintenance costs significantly for older aircraft. maintenance cost used to increase linearly with cycles, now it is a logarithmic function that starts off linear and then levels off starting around 35,000 cycles

A new fixed cost will be implemented soon for each aircraft family that you operate. This will be a weekly cost.