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To My Calculations of a few planes with a lease cost of under $60K, the plane with the Lowest Fuel Flow per Pax was the Cessna-Remis F406 (176 Fuel Flow/12 Seats Max = 14.6666666667 FF/Pax)
Can anyone Possibly find a better, more fuel efficient plane?
Too Old For All This Jazz
Cost Average Seat Mile would be a better equation than straight FF per pax.
A340-300, gets my unscientific vote for best CASM is AE. If it was that good in reality Boeing would be bankrupt.
Too Old For All This Jazz
the ATR-42-200 was probably the best plane in AE history.It used to have <1k fuel flow, I want to say about 250 ff to 50 pax, IIRC.(This was updated so it's now 2.5k, but a possibly interesting note nonetheless.)
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well it's kind of out of the $60K budget but you gotta go big, A380, B747-8i, B777-300, A330-300, A340-200/300, that's it
or you can do good with A320-200 and A321-100
The CL-44 Yukon and Tu-114 are phenomenal mid-sized planes with good range and excellent fuel efficiency. The Tu-114 is a little runway-hungry for a plane of that size but that's really the only downside. I actually don't use these planes anymore because it feels like I'm cheating.
Too Old For All This Jazz
Like a spamline, basically? 60 year old CL-44s flying into London City from Transatlantic flights isn't very realistic. Especially since LCY didn't open until 1985 or so.
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Bombardier Q400 NextGen is the answer.
Excellent fuel efficiency for it's size with best speed in class. Add to this the nice range, reasonable runway requirements and good turn time and you have a win-win aircraft.
The ATRs 72-series are very economical planes too and considering you have an option of smaller plane within the same family and that you can play them for a good part of the game, they're must-have in most airlines.
Best jet-powered plane is the A319NEO, while the B777-300 wins in the wide-body.
And for small aircrafts (45 pax or lower), if only fuel efficiency is considered, than I agree with Lord Letto and the Cessna-Remis F406 wins. However it's maintenance is expensive and unless you have at least 2 of them, in the end of the month you turn red. With this in mind, I'd consider the Cessna C208 Grand Caravan the winner.
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Agree with kaarlowe regarding the <60k monthly lease C208 being the better aircraft with grimsleeper's suggestion to evaluate aircraft based on Cost per Available Seat Mile (CASM). With that in mind, if you really want the aircraft that consumes less fuel in the <60k monthly lease range, I'd suggest not operating the F406 beyond 399 miles. You'll get a decent return on your investment if you don't push the 406 beyond that. Actually, I'd suggest you not push any of the aircraft in that <60k monthly lease range beyond 399 miles. Btw...if you want to be somewhat realistic, I believe scheduled air carriers (at least in the U.S.) are required to have at least two pilots onboard, which eliminates the C208 from fleet consideration. By the numbers, the Dornier 228 would be the most efficient aircraft, CASM-wise, under 60k monthly lease, with two pilots...then the Beriev 32 (again, based on CASM). By AE numbers, if you factor out a 45-minute fuel reserve, and configure the D0-228 and Be-32 at max seating, their respective max operating ranges would be 351 and 326 miles, anyway.
Angry Irishman
Q400 used to be the plane to get back in the day. You just couldn't compete with it with any other aircraft. Not sure these days though.
Too Old For All This Jazz
Conor, the Q400 NextGen has 25% lower fuel flow.
Conor, the Q400 NextGen has 25% lower fuel flow.
Well he said "used to", obviously the NextGen version have lower fuel consumption, it just you gotta wait for long time before it's available 
and there are more fuel efficient airplane compared to the NextGen when it's available to order
Too Old For All This Jazz
I am aware of that. I was just informing him that there are better planes available since he went inactive.Well he said "used to", obviously the NextGen version have lower fuel consumption, it just you gotta wait for long time before it's available
AE's resident Yooper.
I would say probably an early prop-plane. if you want to get technical, I went from JFK to Paris on 10 flights and the profit was -$500,000. I used Scam IFS and I got about -$370,000. Typical in the first jets.
The O.G. Savage
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I have found the best worker for me to be the Bombardier CSeries when it comes along.
It is down to more than just fuel efficiency. You have to consider whether you'd make more money by having a faster aircraft that is able to carry out more tasks.
AE Know It All
Just one question is the fuel flow of an airplane in AE for all the planes engines or just one of them? Just asking as the a330 fuel flow is higher then the a340, even though it the a330 should be more fuel efficient.
Just one of them, AE fuel consumption rate is not based on real life fuel consumption, it based on Magic
I factored all of the airplanes at fuel/passenger/475mph average speed. the c406 is the most fuel efficient per passenger but the landing feex/rtaxes kill you. so if we eliminate all planes under 50 pax because of fees and taxes, you are left with the dhc-7 as the most fuel efficient per passenger a .072lbs/passenger/mile
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