Next aircraft advice

[wind hedge]

Right now I currently operate 9 DC9-10s out of Chicago Ohare. I’m wondering which plane I should scale up to next?

[signal perch]

The boing 737-800 and mc21-400 are pretty good

[wind hedge]

I did look into the 737-800, and the routes suggested seemed to make a similar amount the current aircraft I have now.. is that alright? Or should I select my own route and get suggestions from there?

[wind hedge]

The dc910, in no way, makes similar income as the 738.

And you are also far off from being able to afford that anyways. Continue with dc910’s and then scale up around 40-50 dc910’s owned

But as Facro said, the popular option after the dc910 is usually the mc

[raven idol]

I went 20x DC910 before switching to 100x MC214. But if you want to go the 737-8 route that’s fine. You definitely make less money but if you like that plane go for it.

[wind hedge]

Are there any specific routes you’d suggest? I don’t wanna overload and run out of demand yk..so what are your suggestions?

[raven idol]

use the route bot in the bot-spam channel.

You can use the bot to find the best routes for an aircraft out of all your hubs

For example:

$routes jfk,lax,lhr b747sp none 8

$routes - the command needed
jfk,lax,lhr - the hubs I want to check
b747sp - aircraft
none - this is how you can constrain the command to certain flight times or distance. If you wanted to only see flights around 3 hours you would be 03:00 here
8 - number of flights a day

lets say you want to depart 4 times a day. your command for the DC910 would be:

$routes jfk,lax,lhr dc910 none 4

[wind hedge]

^^^

Or use the research tab. My routes won’t necessarily work for you and vice versa and it’ll be good for you to learn how to do it yourself

[wind hedge]

Okay thank you

However the routes given by the bot I already have 2 aircraft running each… and I don’t wanna drain the demand.. do you think that’s alright if I add more to those three routes?

[wind hedge]

I’m also having trouble with fuel management… I’ve run out of fuel.. my current strategy is to buy lots of fuel when it’s cheap then burn through it and then wait again… is there another way I should do??

Apologies for being so off topic

[raven idol]

You need to input the command then download the CSV file under it. That will give you a big list. Once you have that downloaded. Just go down the list and create routes in order.

DO NOT put multiple planes on a single route unless the bot specifically says multiple aircraft can fly that route