The best way to Profit?

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Todd, you have offered some very good ideas that I support. Let me add on to what you have said from personal experience:

VIP seating. I discovered this pretty quickly I set all of the seats to VIP, charged a fair rate and checked to see how many passengers were
willing to pay. Exit the program, increase ticket prices by a small margin and try again. After several tries you will find the maximum amount you
can charge and still have a good payload. This does depend upon your reputation and how often you have flown out of that particular airport.

Fly as high as you can considering the wind. The normal rule is the jet stream is from West to East: flying towards the East, fly to your maximum
altitude. Flying to the West, you will probably be from 5000 - 10000 feet lower since winds are higher at the higher altitudes. This isn't always
true with MSFS though. I have had times where the wind speed remained constant from Fl190 - Fl350. More recently, I have set the wind manually
according to what I feel it should be and from information that I have obtained:

http://www.usairnet.com/cgi-bin/Winds/Aloft.cgi

As mentioned, reduce your throttle. I prefer 65% since I am usually reducing my speed by less than 10% but lowing my fuel burn by as much as 20% as
compaired to 90% throttle.