Reserved for Cascade Airways (Always wanted to try a revival of that brand; only for this challenge; not canonical or tied to Rainier Air or Rainier Aviation Group)
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JohnnyBoythePilot
JohnnyBoythePilot
Member Since 10 Sep 2018Offline Last Active Nov 12 2023 07:46 PM
About Me
I'm an aspiring pilot and aviation has been my passion my whole life. Along with flying (both real-world and in FSX), I also love designing my own airplanes, and I run a fictional aviation empire known as "Rainier Aviation Group", which includes multiple subsidiaries that specialize in their respective sub-fields of the aviation industry.
Update on Rainier Air Scheduled Operations Restart
Rainier Air is planning on restarting scheduled operations by summer of 2021, focusing on the pacific northwest, southwest, and rocky mountain region markets with an all-premium economy service. Due to circumstances in passenger demand and the used aircraft market caused by the pandemic, Rainier Air will fly with a renewed focus on secondary airports & routes flying more with regional aircraft. The MD-80 series will still be flown as originally planned but not to the same extent that was planned before the pandemic and temporary shutdown in early 2020. Because of the pandemic and airlines retiring older aircraft earlier, Rainier Air will be able to acquire and use the Boeing 717-200 as the backbone of fleet operations, operating primarily on medium-demand routes. The MD-80 series will be reserved for high-demand & longer-ranged flights. After exhaustive comparison and research for the best regional aircraft under 100 seats for low-demand thin routes, where the Embraer ERJ and De Havilland Dash-8 families of aircraft were under series consideration, it has been decided that both aircraft will be utilized by Rainier Air. Both aircraft have their strong points and work better on certain routes where the other might not do as well, so both will be utilized. Original plans to operate Fokker F70 and F100 jets have been completely abandoned. Dash-8's will operate on shorter routes while ERJ's while work the longer routes that are too thin for the 717. The Boeing 757 is still under consideration for future ETOPS flights to and from Hawaii, and for possible long-distance Alaska flights that are too long for the MD-80.
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In Topic: 2020 less than 50 seats Design Challenge
18 April 2020 - 01:15 AM
In Topic: Advice for logo design and Liveries?
11 March 2020 - 04:17 PM
Just my 2 cents but try to make your liveries more bold and unique, and don't make them too messy or crowded. Use a good stylish yet readable font as well. For logos, I can't offer much as that's an area I'm still working on too.
In Topic: PC12 - C406?
03 March 2020 - 07:47 PM
I’ve found the 20 and 30 seat aircraft can be quite useful for serving some of the smaller destinations that have demands in the range of less than 10 per day. The Do-228 is especially efficient, but I’ve also done this with EMB-120s and tried it with Caravans. That said every time I try to set up routes with smaller aircraft such as Islanders or Bonanzas, but they always cost more to operate than they make. This has left me asking a similar question as to how people use the 15 seat and less aircraft efficiently...
I tried Bonanzas, King Airs, and PC-12's but they NEVER made any profit on any route I put them, no matter the seating or how long the route was. Although I've had success with earning profits via Cessna Caravans configured with 10 seats and Beech 1900C/D's configured with 15 seats. The profit isn't crazy but at least they're turning something on majority of the routes they fly.
In Topic: How to deal with these Spam Airlines?
03 March 2020 - 07:44 PM
Yea the spamliners are really frigging annoying. One just moved into my market specifically and is creating hubs out of ALL the airports in my area I serve, and spamming them with dozens and dozens of flights with large regional jets even though the demand is WAAAY below the amount of planes this spamliner is putting on these routes, and I can't compete at all or make any money on those routes, and I don't have the financial resources yet to "out-spam" this airline. I think this will probably be my last playthrough of AE and just resort to uploading my liveries on the AE gallery and keeping my airline in FSX only.
In Topic: Can't get any profit out of my airline, about to go bankrupt, and don...
01 August 2019 - 02:56 PM
Yep, my rebooted airline is doing MUCH better! I'm now at $8 million with a positive profit margin.
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