Go Vis!!
Have you looked at the past 5 or 6 years of Comair?
The company had 3 x Basic's; 2x Adv 732's and 1x "Confuser" (ZS-NLN now V5-ANA) a near basic with JTAD-17's on! And a few 727's that was it. The pilots totaled 52 and OPS was on the "wrong side " the airport.
Five years later Comair (sadly) operates no more 727's BUT....
**Still the basic's at present - making good money and paid for!
**10 x 732 adv a/c from ZS-NNG to ZS-SIN
**3 x 734's and the first 733 is in RSA NOW !!
New OPS bulidings are in operation and so is the simulator centre ( previously the training all had to be done in the UK)
** Pilots now total about 130!
If u look at the facts and expantion over this time ..... do you expect Comair to make money too?? Hell yes....We ARE!!
Just thinking out loud!! But I believe the facts speak for ... Comair!