Originally Posted by Anglo Large Clawed Otter (Post 11753836)

Whoda thunkit? Africa is wide-open. Lots of tin-pot dictatorships to choose from with higher passenger traffic. If you like, I can reset your airline and TARP you enough to purchase a Potez 842 & Shorts 360-100 (your current fleet), and 12 gates (your present total). That way, you can set up shop at a Third-World :rolleyes: airport with more pax traffic.

Originally Posted by Anglo Large Clawed Otter (Post 11753870)

I still have a year left. I'm just done for the summer (which is reason enough to celebrate).

Originally Posted by ssullivan (Post 11753916)

more profitable uses for that plane.

Originally Posted by ssullivan (Post 11753916)

Cuba ain't great either for demand, but I'm still making decent cash with my single AN-24V. About ready to order my second plane — could do it right now, actually, but trying to finalize my decision on what to buy. Anyone have experience with the AIDC XC-2? I'd never heard of the thing. According to Wikipedia, it's some Chinese prototype airliner that never saw actual production in the real world, but Airline Mogul has it for sale. It's slightly larger and faster than the Shorts 360 that several Third World airlines have, but also has longer range, and a couple more seats. The turn time is just slightly longer, but that's probably more than made up for by the faster speed. I'm thinking about it for some of the shorter routes I had my Antonov on, but dropped, not because they weren't profitable, but because there were more profitable uses for that plane. I'm looking for something a little cheaper, with less range, and a little smaller capacity, to put on some of my short-haul, medium-demand routes out of HAV. And the Shorts, while it's ugly as hell, just isn't quite as exotic as late 1970s/early 1980s communist China technology.

Originally Posted by Anglo Large Clawed Otter (Post 11753964)

I'm operating the XC-2. One is outperforming my Shorts 360 by about 12K EUR, and one makes slightly less (though is plying less lucrative routes)

Originally Posted by belynch (Post 11753951)

Hostel?

Originally Posted by ssullivan (Post 11753986)

LOL. It's doing quite well on HAV-MEX/MIA/PTY/SJU.

Is it just me, or does it drive the rest of you nuts that in most cases Airline Mogul refers to airports only by their official name, not by the city they're located in, or the airport code?

Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 11754020)

In other news, I'm listening to Upgrd - am I the only one that wants to have drinks with Hunter? He's a lunatic. ^

Originally Posted by Anglo Large Clawed Otter (Post 11753964)

I'm operating the XC-2. One is outperforming my Shorts 360 by about 12K EUR, and one makes slightly less (though is plying less lucrative routes)

Originally Posted by sdm1130 (Post 11754029)

IMO, he has kind of dragged down the quality of the podcast... :(

Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 11754223)

I don't think so. The attitude and the back and forth between him and Ben is hilarious, to me anyway.

Originally Posted by mnmag (Post 11754235)

Just got the best news -- I passed my CFP exam (certified financial planner)!! It's been a long 6 wks waiting for the results! Yay!