Originally Posted by
PAXboy
There were two sectors of the 'How did he think it would work?' DebonAir!
MUC-LTN rtn.
Much of the Debonair fleet was ex-US Air from the USA, the onetime PSA fleet, which they had withdrawn and were prepared to let go cheaply. Debs actually got quite a lot of subcontract work from Lufthansa. Franco, the key owner, had previously started Discovery Airways in Hawaii, also with 146s, and used the same livery at Debonair.
There are so many aspects of aircraft costing to take into account, fuel and engine maintenance are just part of it, and so often you find that the difference even of these is not as great as whooped about by the competition. Then there's revenue. Seat mile costs are something of a fiction, just dividing overall costs by seats, because comparing a 100-seat RJ against a 150-seat Boeing, if there's not even 100 seats of demand at the best price point then the extra 50 seats are useless.