Look at my airline in R5 i've only got 15 planes at the moment and i'm in 45th place... i've been playing since monday you just have to know your airports.
Aegean Turkish Airlines
edit: also know your planes very well and know what you need for a route for example at the time in the game right the 767 300 and 200 are practically cheat codes... in 2015 the airplanes are aging death sentences.
What are you talking about ........the 767 is a cheat code ?
It is pretty good on longer distance routes during it's era but it definitely is not the best overall money maker when it was being built.
In the game world were both in ( and I'm #1 ) the 767-300ER was the last model I took on, the first was the lowly 737-400 which often makes as much profit as the 767 at half the cost.
And shortly after the 767-200 came out the A300-600 came out which was a more profitable aircraft to fly on larger routes up to 4,300 miles.