channy_thegreat

Hello, GMI members:

Shuttle America is seeking acceptance into the GMI Alliance in world Rδ. DOP: $12M

http://ae31.airline-...e3rd&player=207

SH has hubs in the following cities

JFK: 255 Daily Departures (40 Gates) *Completed* ATR-400

ATL: 169 Daily Departures (25 Gates) *Will increase to JFK since once I have enough money to buy a terminal*  Q300

ORD: 253 Daily Departures (37 Gates) *Completed* CRJ100

LAX: 130 Daily Departures (19 Gates) *Will be around 40-50 Gates once I have enough money to buy a terminal* ATR-400

ANC: 65 Daily Departures (5 Gates) *Completed* ATC

Future Hubs: DFW(CRJ100), DEN(Q300), SFO, SEA, STL/MCI

Route Structure: I am a regional airline operating in the US. I have it set up so that my hubs all operate to every airport that can support at least 1x daily 50 seat plane in all states within 2 of the respective hub. 

I have picked my hubs so that they are three states apart(with some exceptions) and thus they will overlap on the middle state. A good example of this is JFK and ORD. They are both two states away from Ohio and as such both serve Ohio. ATL-JFK and North Carolina are also going to be the same way. 

Once I have completed the regional route network (Planned for year 1993) I will begin working in Canada with 100 seat planes and fly from each city to all my respective hubs. 

Eventually, I plan to attack the Caribbean, Latin America and South America. 

I envision eventually following the same model to Europe and Asia but that is a long way off. 

Shuttle America is pulling really good Profit Margins. Last month we had a margin of nearly 40%. 

Thank You. 

I have been trying to create a regional airline. I have a hub at JFK and another at ATL. 

Both airports have 50 seater planes and fly very short regional routes, basically only to neighboring states. 

JFK: ~175 daily departures

ATL: ~125 daily departures

In the last month, I pulled in a net income of only $7 million on $110 million revenue. Roughly 6%. Whereas it is normally about a 30-40% margin for my last airlines, using mainline a/c. 

Now I realize using smaller airplanes means more flights and more gates; I am also aware JFK and ATL are expensive gates. However, the need to use those airports for my model exists because I need to demand to the secondary airports I serve. 

To help regional airlines, I think changing the landing fees and potentially gate leasing fees to a variable system based on seat count would be ideal. Landing/airports fees at least are indeed done like this in the real world. 

For instance: 

0-80 seats: 30%

80-150 seats: 50%

150-275: seats: 75%

275+ seats: 100% landing and gate fee costs

It would allow airlines like myself to actually work. There is no way under the current AE that a regional airline can work. 

As is, I pay all my employees $7/hr, 0% staff extras and a scam IFS and IFE that is bringing in 45m of my 110m. Without those scam programs, I am running in the red by 40m/month, probably -50/55m if I paid my employees a real wage. 

I am not one who enters worlds to scam the leasing system, horde planes to try and finish first. I simply pick a cool thing to do and try and build it. The idea that I basically have to cheat the system with the IFE/IFS in order to survive is insane. 

Something needs to be done to help the regional airline model in AE.