Why do people own a large fleet of airplanes?

As the topic title says why do people own a large fleet of airplanes? Why ? 

Mainly, just because they can. Secondly because some see their goal to expand the quickest, and to keep expanding constantly. This goal to keep the expansion going fuels the need for more and more aircraft

For the No.1 prize and to keep them busy. I have suggested a spam world. S5 Aircraft prices are halved, A380 production is brought to 2000 and it goes 2000-2050 with Cl-44s as well. Let them fight it out, with funny consequences.

For the No.1 prize and to keep them busy. I have suggested a spam world. S5 Aircraft prices are halved, A380 production is brought to 2000 and it goes 2000-2050 with Cl-44s as well. Let them fight it out, with funny consequences.

As the topic title says why do people own a large fleet of airplanes? Why ?

Is it possible to win a sandbox game?

An important definition is to ask how large is large?

 

1000 planes, maybe even 1500 planes can be realistic on a US mainline airline. It's the realm of 2000, 3000, 4000, 10000 that is ludicrous.

Comparied to the real world, even 1000 for multiple airlines is pretty silly. 

Delta is currently the largest airline in the world and only has about 750 aircraft. 

Southwest carries the most mainline domestic traffic in the US and has a fleet of 570 boing 737s.

Finally, arrording to this report there are only ~7000 total registered comercial aircraft in the US with only a total of ~3800 being in the service of mainline carriers.

An important definition is to ask how large is large?

 

1000 planes, maybe even 1500 planes can be realistic on a US mainline airline. It's the realm of 2000, 3000, 4000, 10000 that is ludicrous.

Well, I class it more on DOP and Valuation. The biggest airline I had was 12-13th biggest in O2 and it had 650 planes with $125m DOP. Most of my valuation were assets. So, I could class that as a big airline. Big meaning to me = I could barely keep up with deliveries because I don't spend more than 2 hours per day on AE.

Is it possible to win a sandbox game?

It is when the game has a leaderboard that ranks by valuation.

knowing him he's just being thick about it

why oh why.. whyy..?

why oh why.. whyy..?

You're as bad as me! D:

Yeah. You have an airline with 4,500 planes with 7 different manufacturers. And that's just 1...

7 different manufacturers. And that's just 1...

In the 90s, I would imagine one brand name with Airbus, Boeing, Douglas, Lockeed, Embraer/Avro/Folker, Bombardier, and ATR not too unusual.

I have availed of over 25 manufacturers with the one airline before. Yuxi had some screenshots of the airline so he may be able to show it

This is the only screenshot I have, but that's still relevant to this topic.

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This is the only screenshot I have, but that's still relevant to this topic.

 

bigairline.png

That's about right although the fleet did reach 46,000 (credit to Atnt71eb) but I had it mega spammed before that D:

This is the only screenshot I have, but that's still relevant to this topic.

 

bigairline.png

This is the only screenshot I have, but that's still relevant to this topic.

bigairline.png

An ATR 72-200 making almost as much as its value per month