Just for leasing an A333 you'll be fine with less then a million USD per month. The old A333's aren't going to much money, in slow times you'll have sufficient with even less then half a million USD, normal rates would be arround 800.000 USD as I remember correcty. Newer planes however can exceed a million per month. But even then it's subject to the person negociating the deal...cnc wrote:with 3.5M leasing an A333 and possible set up a new destination? you'll need 10 times that amount of money
You can be sure that the A333's from SN aren't costing to much each month, they are (nearly) the oldest ones flying arround...
I'll estimate the costs of usage somewhere arround 3 to 450.000 USD per month (crew, insurance, fuel, etc...)...
However, setting up a new route costs indeed some more money besides leasings alone.