Hi everyone,
I have this question you may be able to help me with...
Take into consideration a brand new airline and lets suppose that we use the 10M AS$ to lease 5 Embraer 195's.
Suppose we're in Greece were all domestic flights are short-haul. How is it better to utilize these a/c's? Do you just assign them in 5 busy routes doing something like 35 flight per week each?
Or do you assign them to as many routes as you can visiting each destination once every week.
For e.g. I could have 1 a/c doing ATH-HER x 5 time per day = 35 flight per week
or...
the same a/c could be doing ATH-HER-ATH, then ATH-SKG-ATH, then ATH-RHO-ATH, then ATH-CHQ-ATH and finally ATH-CFU-ATH all in one day. The next day I could have 5 more destinations etc for the rest of the week. That would mean that I could have up to 35 destinations using only 1 a/c!
Having 5 a/c's is like serving 175 destinations, but each destination is served once/week.
Which one is a better practice based on your experience?
Thank you,
Costas