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[DeltaA350]

What are the worst planes in AE in your opinion?

 

I dislike the Tu-104. On a route, I got 20,000 profit. But when I replaced the Tu-104 with DC-7s, I got 180,000

[sargester]

Any plane below 30 seats

[jordec1124]

The helicopters

[Jezza.]

Any plane below 30 seats

I beg to differ...

[Airboss777]

Let's not forget the Concorde's fuel flow figure....

[hayhaa]

Let's not forget the Concorde's fuel flow figure....

yes, however, tupolev tu-144 is worse

[Jarkii]

TU-104 has 100 seats and a 40000 fuel flow... you can't even make a quarter with that

[vistaraR1]

yes, however, tupolev tu-144 is worse

Tu 114?

[vistaraR1]

Jarkii what will you do with 8 Concordes?
I just sold 2 of them. They suck!

[Jarkii]

i know, they are just sitting idle

[Tesla]

Just run the concordes on the longest route they can fly to wring a slight profit.

[Tesla]

I'd like to put forward the Ilyushin IL-96. Horrific fuel flow and botch job cabin quality. I learnt my lesson the first time I used it

[konj1]

 

What are the worst planes in AE in your opinion?

 

I dislike the Tu-104. On a route, I got 20,000 profit. But when I replaced the Tu-104 with DC-7s, I got 180,000

Tu-104 is a jet age pioneer, the first jet available in AE, what do you expect from jets of that era? Its only competition Comet is not much better either (let alone early models of Comet that should be first available, but IRW also had catastrophic structural failures and were pulled out soon), and other small early jets like Caravelle are still far from perfect.

 

Early jets should also be a bit more economical in AE than they are now until the min-70's fuel crisis.

But to cut long story short, yes, it's a time where props like DC-7 still make more economic sense than Tu-104, but also prop Tu-114 is even better than 707, and big jets are only ones that make serious money until late 60s.

[konj1]

I'd like to put forward the Ilyushin IL-96. Horrific fuel flow and botch job cabin quality. I learnt my lesson the first time I used it

Not really, only Il-96-300 has comparatively bad fuel economy, but Il-96-400 is about as efficient as 777-200ER... Since it has shorter range, its better comparison is A330-300, and in use on most routes it makes only slightly less money than the super-efficient A330-300.

[konj1]

By the way, Il-96-300 has the same problem as A340-500 and 747-8, AE allows total of seats only based on maximum certified number ignoring real space available even if you put a 3-class configuration with less than nominal max seat number.

 

Its real cabin length and width should mean that there should be place for 2- or 3-class configs similar to A340-200, rather than being more similar to much smaller 757-300.

 

They say it will be different in AE4... Having fun waiting.

[vistaraR1]

Sold all Concordes!

[DeltaA350]

The helicopters

A helicopter with scam IFE made me 80 thousand

[DusanGB]

Concorde is very bad,but i dislike most A340s

[DeltaA350]

Concorde is very bad,but i dislike most A340s

It is worst, not most disliked. The A340s are very profitable

[zipp]

Boeing 737-800