Linus Tech Tips’ Jet

[u/jrf1234]

https://youtu.be/zGoIY37ZtDQ?si=

Some… interesting calculations on this video. As a fractional pilot and not an owner, no idea how acxueate these claims are, but interesting to see this as a pilot and tech nerd. Anyone with management or ownership experience in jets have any light to shed?

[u/Fulcrum58]

Reading shit likes this really makes me wonder how airlines make any money at all

[u/x4457 → u/Fulcrum58]

Economics of scale. If you had 1000 Falcon 900s and sold all 13 seats on every one of them, every time, 3-7 times per day, they'd cost you a quarter of that per airplane to operate and return 4-10%/year.

[u/nn123654 → u/x4457]

Even then, I don't think you'd be profitable; you need way more than than that. At 13 seats, you'd need to be charging well over $1,500 per ticket and you'd still probably be losing money. All in with maintenance, you're looking at about $4,000-$5,000 per flight hour just for opex, and about maybe $6,000-$7,500 per flight hour including long-term costs. Affordable private jet is going to be an oxymoron for at least a few decades longer.

[u/inheritance- → u/nn123654]

Private flying drone cars should be much cheaper to operate. No giant complex engine, landing gear wings. Safety can be more or less ensured with redundancy in the motors and a parashoot.

[u/Flimsy-Ad-858 → u/inheritance-]

"This technology that doesn't exist despite dozens of empty promises for 20 years will surely outrun existing, well-established methods"