08-30-2018, 08:23 AM
My ideas actually makes it tougher a challenge 
see it like this:
Aeroflot/fantasy airline has Tupolev and Ilyushin aircraft.
These aircraft are very uneconomic to operate, no problem if there is no competition, but in this case, Air France/KLM/Lufthansa/Whatever start competing with you.
With much more efficient aircraft.
You want to get rid of these aircraft and buy more competitive models.
But you can't. They're worth next to nothing due to their age, and selling them doesn't allow you to buy enough new airliners to maintain the obligatory domestic routes (which also might not turn a profit).
On top of that, you have nearly no starting cash and a massive outstanding loan.
So yes, in my suggested scenario you do have a starting fleet.
But I wouldn't consider that a gift really. There is no way they can beat competing airlines and they don't turn a good profit on other routes.
It's a bit more out of the box then the usual scenarios we have at the moment: start up an airline, here is your cash (enough to buy 1 or 2 airliners) and get big soon.
Looks like you're correct on Aeroflot already being massive in 1992. (even though they lost 95% of their fleet with the fall of the Soviet Union)
Perhaps start as Rossiya? And have it compete with Aeroflot, to make it even harder?
see it like this:
Aeroflot/fantasy airline has Tupolev and Ilyushin aircraft.
These aircraft are very uneconomic to operate, no problem if there is no competition, but in this case, Air France/KLM/Lufthansa/Whatever start competing with you.
With much more efficient aircraft.
You want to get rid of these aircraft and buy more competitive models.
But you can't. They're worth next to nothing due to their age, and selling them doesn't allow you to buy enough new airliners to maintain the obligatory domestic routes (which also might not turn a profit).
On top of that, you have nearly no starting cash and a massive outstanding loan.
So yes, in my suggested scenario you do have a starting fleet.
But I wouldn't consider that a gift really. There is no way they can beat competing airlines and they don't turn a good profit on other routes.
It's a bit more out of the box then the usual scenarios we have at the moment: start up an airline, here is your cash (enough to buy 1 or 2 airliners) and get big soon.
Looks like you're correct on Aeroflot already being massive in 1992. (even though they lost 95% of their fleet with the fall of the Soviet Union)
Perhaps start as Rossiya? And have it compete with Aeroflot, to make it even harder?