Serious overcrowding of a route!!!

I checked to see why my AMS-LHR route capacity plummeted to 20%, and it seems Braidhaugh is flying 22 aircraft on this route. I find it a bit much. He's flying:

10 ATR 72-500
4 Q400
3 787-8
2 A330-300
1 777-200ER
1 737-900
1 A319

All this on one route, i think is really stupid and ruins the game for all of us.

Now that is a bit to much

He's also got 26 planes on LHR-EDI.

11 ATR-72-500
1 A320-200
15 Q400
5 A319-100
1 787-8

I'm sure there are others.

What is happening is he drives down the profit so airlines jump off the route then when they leave he gets control of that route. This is a very common practice. I know a couple of people on AE that have done that ummmmmmm wont say names but I am as guilty as other

This is kinda like a price war in real airlines except in the real world you just drop the price but in game you have to saturate the route with A/C to drop the price and LF.

What is happening is he drives down the profit so airlines jump off the route then when they leave he gets control of that route. This is a very common practice. I know a couple of people on AE that have done that ummmmmmm wont say names but I am as guilty as other

This is kinda like a price war in real airlines except in the real world you just drop the price but in game you have to saturate the route with A/C to drop the price and LF.

Wouldn't it be better to limit airlines to one A/C per route, and if they want to have a price war, lower the price themselves? I mean, throwing 22 A/C on a route that's barely an hours flight is just over the top, just takes the fun out for the guys trying to build up an airline and do not wish to do anything just to get their name at the top spot

just my thought

If the LF was better and a round trip flight with frequency worked better then I would answer yes to 1-2 A/C per route. But in this game flying 1way makes more money than a RT so to make more money you need more A/C on the route. While I agree 22 A/C is too many, I also know that it is very hard to get a late start in this game.

This game has always been highly competitive, and these techniques are nothing new. There's a reason big airlines dominate the most competitive routes in real life. I disagree with implementing hard restrictions (like 1 A/C per route), severely restricting large airlines in the name of protecting little ones. I feel if someone has built up enough resources to take over a route this way and sustain price wars for long periods of time, there's no reason they shouldn't be allowed to. And I've always enjoyed the fact that AE is an open world without a lot of regulatory nonsense limiting where you can fly. Imagine if you are really good at the game and make it into the top 10, would you want to be told "you can only fly here and here and no more than 1 or 2 aircraft on this route"?

Now I know the LF system leaves something to be desired in the realism department, and it gives the developers a headache too but we simply don't have time to code a new one at the moment. Maybe this summer.

As for everyone jumping on one route, hopefully that will get better over time as more people diversify their networks fly to smaller cities. I don't want to sound like I don't care about the majority of players who can't throw 20 planes at a route to dominate it. The goal of increasing in-game demand of medium-sized and smaller cities is so people can make a lot of profit flying to many medium/small cities, not just ORD and LHR.

Then once people start leaving the bestmore desirable and crowded routes, guess who's going to move in and fill that void?