Originally Posted by
B737-800W
Hi folks,
except Conklin & deDecker anyone out there knows an accurate source for calculating the operating costs of biz jets?
cheers
You're mistaking what these types of products offer. Not your fault, as they don't often accurately portray themselves either.
C&dD and ACC provide a baseline for comparing one aircraft with another by trying to standardise the data. They really don't give you an accurate assessment of what your operational costs are going to be. What they do is show what the differences and nature of the differences are likely to be on a selection between different aircraft. To accurately then convert that data to a realistic prediction of your own costs would need a detailed review of the baseline assumptions used by the specific model and then appropriate adjustments to that data, but at least you'd have a framework to do such work.
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