Re:Air France 447: The ‘Coffin Corner’ and a ‘Mesoscale’ Maw
by ken on Monday June 08, 2009 @09:28PM
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You don't need to buy new jetliners to run an airline. You can go to ILFC and rent them. Even big guys like American and Continental do this for some of their aircraft.
One webpage I found suggests the lease price for a 737 is between $50,000 - $100,000 per month (which seems reasonable, or maybe a little low). Wikipedia says YouTube's bandwidth costs are estimated at $1M per day, so the hardware cost of a couple aircraft doesn't seem all that expensive.
(Disclaimer: I know almost nothing about commercial aviation.)
One webpage I found suggests the lease price for a 737 is between $50,000 - $100,000 per month (which seems reasonable, or maybe a little low). Wikipedia says YouTube's bandwidth costs are estimated at $1M per day, so the hardware cost of a couple aircraft doesn't seem all that expensive.
(Disclaimer: I know almost nothing about commercial aviation.)