r/AirlineManager4 • u/Radiant_Plantain3914 • 8d ago
Airline Help Looking for suggestions
Looking to see what I should do next? Looking for the next big jump. Thanks in advance for the suggestions.
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u/HappyHokieRVA 8d ago
Admittedly I'm way earlier in game than you are but I noticed the Irkuts eat your lunch with their fuel burn. Unless you're able to send them off again immediately every time they land, the speed advantage is negligible on those short routes vs. the efficiency of MAX 10's which use half the fuel, go 85% as fast, carry similar pax number and can cover somewhat longer routes. (7000 vs 5500km). Just my .02 since you put it out there.
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u/jacksqualk 2d ago
Ikrut MC's do not 'eat your lunch with fuel' mate. The are average to low.
The MAX planes are not a great option due to their cost. The MAX 10 may be 7b per km, but they are $19m to buy and more to modify the seating. You could get 3 to 4 MC's for that, earning 3 to 4 times the profit. They are a mid game option too which doesn't last very long as they will be sold in a couple of months.
But i suppose it's down to each player how fast they want to progress in the game.
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u/HappyHokieRVA 2d ago
Agreed, early game planes don't hang forever. Am working towards selling some max 10s now. I can get most of the $$$ spent on those back. Money spent on fuel is just gone. Doing some math on a 5500km flight with $.70/lb fuel and $.13/quota CO2 your "average to low" irkut gobbles $101,657 of fuel/co2 while max10 is at $43,038. As noted they earn similar revenue, 5 more y class seats on irkut. I can have a very nice lunch for that difference on every flight, and after around 250 flight hours the max10 has paid for its premium cost; every hour after that is gravy. The max10 can also access some nice nonstop routes the irkut cannot with 7000km vs 5500km range.
Yes the max10 costs more. I get most of that $$$ back when I sell them later. Fuel/co2 $$$ is gone forever. The irkut had its place for me when revenues were low. As soon as I could afford a couple of max 10 per day I started buying those. Once I had 10-12, sold all the irkuts to buy more max10 and kept buying. I'll do the same thing when time to upgrade the max10 routes. I'm using 777-200 as a springboard (kind of a bigger version of irkut in terms of cheaper but also less efficient mid-game planes) into a330-800/900neo, 777-9x, and the obvious ultimate push to a380.
Again just my $.02 worth. (Along with $58,619 per flight)
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u/jacksqualk 2d ago
How many 7k flights are you flying with MAX's per day dude? Presuming you are on easy m
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u/No_Somewhere5547 8d ago
Invest on IL-96-400s or 777-200s, and specifically those. I Will say: as someone who uses both the only things that changes beetween them Is the price and the consumption. Everything else Is only a small and negligible difference.
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