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[lfc]

Anywhere with low demand, underserved/unserved airports, no competition and a big airport within 200 miles. Regional is slow building, slow money, slow moving overall but I prefer it to crazy massive airlines that crisscross the globe. 

[Viero]

I like small airports, remote airports, and airports with decent domestic connections. They don't usually go hand-in-hand, of course.

 

Stuff like:

Australia/NZ (SYD/MEL/AKL/etc.)

Hong Kong (HKG)

Japan (HND/FUK/KIX/etc.)

Ljubljana, Slovenia (LJU)

Papatee, French Polynesia (PPT)

Just to name a few.

[konj1]

I like small airports, remote airports, and airports with decent domestic connections. They don't usually go hand-in-hand, of course.

 

Hong Kong (HKG)

Japan (HND/FUK/KIX/etc.)

Ljubljana, Slovenia (LJU)

I just don't get the list, how are these three remote when they are in the middle of most densely populated landmasses of the world, what's small about HK and Tokyo, and what are other decent domestic connections in Hong Kong and Slovenia (if we don't count Greater China and EU as domestic, but as a HK airline you don't get to operate outside of HK)?

 

 

Anyway, there are a lot of places where I liked or would like to start an airline in AE, but Australia and often NZ are at the bottom of the list, from my experience, simply too crowded, always a lot of other players and huge competition for a small, remote market with very limited international options (it would be better with stop-over flights in AE, but now waiting for ULR planes (tankers) that don't make profit while guzzling loads of fuel doesn't seem like a lot of fun).

 

 

 

 

When it comes to connecting a bunch of small, remote airports, with decent loads and a lot of diverse domestic connections, Canada and Russia are great places to choose. 

 

But for real real, if you're going for the top 3 valuation, usually only USA and China and sometimes EU count... So, some big airport there, avoid the most crowded ones if you don't want too much competition if it's a big world, but sometimes you can get lucky with the biggest ones as well.

I won't tell my absolute favorites, just because, I'm jealous. 

[Domster]

LHR, CDG, JFK, MNL because MNL is my local airport.

[Viero]

I just don't get the list, how are these three remote when they are in the middle of most densely populated landmasses of the world, what's small about HK and Tokyo, and what are other decent domestic connections in Hong Kong and Slovenia (if we don't count Greater China and EU as domestic, but as a HK airline you don't get to operate outside of HK)?

That's why I mentioned they don't go hand-in-hand. None of those places meet all three of those, but for the most part they do meet at least one.

 

Hong Kong could be considered small in the sense that there's only one airport,

Japan has great domestic connections and it's isolated in the sense it's an island,

and LJU is really tiny. ~1.5 mil passengers.

[Lord Corner]

As few others said, I also like to take  airports off from mainstream, most of my airlines recently started in africa.. home airport HAM, had one in MST (lived near in Germany for a long time), Réunion, Rwanda, Morocco (which is today also crowded) PPT.. currently have one in DR Kongo (R0) and works right.. Currently also try Greenland and Cap Verde in R1... 

 

Yeh, I also like those more like real life airlines, not those monstrous, spaming, 2000+ AC Airlines.. Delta and US already mergered? what would they have together? nearly 1500? What does united currently have?

[Coco X]

Judging by how many I've had based there its either San Diego or Orlando since both are busy but aren't swamped with competition.

 

And since AirCal and Chalk's Ocean Airways have been at those 2 and been my most successful on my own........

 

Coco x

[AJ787-9]

I like STL. Medium to Large-sized airport, big enough market to operate intercontinental flights and close enough to the center of the US for me to operate my large domestic network with two to three RJ types.

[konj1]

Yeah, US Midwest mid-sized airports are usually not too crowded.

[KawaiiBert]

EIN  cuz Einhoven is the best city of The Kingdom of The Netherlands, and if youve there 8 gates without terminal competion form non european airlines is impossible

[konj1]

Hm, I don't know, there's not much room for really great routes outside EU at EID, maybe if you count Moscow, Istanbul, and Cairo that can be reached with 737s and a few other destinations that could fill a 757, but otherwise it's pretty week to reach America and East Asia and to fill real wide-body intercontinental planes with that passenger number (you can spam with connecting pax but it's not very profitable at the beginning when your company is small).

 

If you want a small company with no competition it might be a good thing, but I usually see a lot of ambitious airlines in the Netherlands.

[dazwalsh]

DUB, but it needs a runway extension, cant get a345/6's or 772LR/773 out of there. Stuck with a333 until the A350's come out.

[DeltaA350]

787s?

[konj1]

You can get a 747 or A380, lol... Too bad for 773 and A346, but I don't know why would an airline based in Ireland really need something bigger than (with attention to right engines) DC-10 or A333/A343/772 or later A359/789.

 

And A345 and 772LR are a waste of money anyway. Going ULR sucks. I use those if they get to used market to fill my need for more spam on more rational routes from big countries, I don't ever order them new and don't use them at all when I'm in some smaller country.

[Jarkii]

Mumbai. Good demand, Little competition

[Med.]

I'm starting to like Bahrain. Good for big jets on long haul.

 

It really depends on purpose though. I still think USA is a lucrative country when you're operating a regional airline on secondary airports. Primary airports are overcrowded though so I avoid them.