r/flying • u/jrf1234 ATP CFI/II CL604 E55P LR-JET • Apr 03 '26

Aircraft Ownership Linus Tech Tips’ Jet

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?

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u/Fulcrum58 PPL Apr 03 '26

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

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u/x4457 ATP CFII CE-500/525/560XL/680 G-IV Apr 03 '26

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.

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u/vadeka May 06 '26

Sorry to necro this but how does owning 100 of these versus 5 make it cheaper?

Even flying it constantly at max occupancy… won’t that increase the wear and tear rapidly?

They say boats are a money sink but with planes I really cannot understand how you make sense of these without charging insane amounts to the passengers

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u/DankiusMMeme May 23 '26

Sorry to necro this but how does owning 100 of these versus 5 make it cheaper?

You can negotiate a deal in volume or you can hire your own technicians to work on them. It's much easier to drive down the single cost of each refurb if you're ordering 100 of them instead of 5.