#1
Guest_M4matthew_*
Posted 18 February 2012 - 10:53 AM
- I say "5 days", although the owner of said airline has only been a member for 3 days. So let's say the airline is 3 days old.
Three real world days equates to half a game year. In 6 months he has grown his airline into a 100 plane empire. How?
I can't think of any real world airline that has grown it's fleet by 100 aircraft in 6 months.
In the end I decided to close my airline down and stop playing, not because of the competition but because I realised just how time consuming and repetitive AE is.
#2
Posted 18 February 2012 - 11:08 AM
Right now we can open 100 routes and service them all in 1 day at peak performance.
#3
Posted 18 February 2012 - 12:46 PM
#4
Guest_M4matthew_*
Posted 18 February 2012 - 01:03 PM
If this was real life, the lessee would not make any money, in fact they could even make a loss!
#5
Posted 18 February 2012 - 06:24 PM
Chris
#6
Guest_M4matthew_*
Posted 18 February 2012 - 06:32 PM
#7
Posted 19 February 2012 - 04:15 PM
#8
Guest_M4matthew_*
Posted 19 February 2012 - 05:05 PM
Also earnings from flights looks ridiculously high! Especially the short haul ones! And yeah fuel prices are constant and cheap.
I know, I was speaking to a BA engineer last week. He said they'd be lucky to see a 3% profit margin on a fully loaded flight.
#9
Posted 18 April 2012 - 02:43 AM
Maybe the answer needs to be only x number or airlines can be based in Europe at one time. Or less airlines in each world (as long as there are more worlds). Some competition is always fun, but it can get ridiculous...
#10
Posted 18 April 2012 - 03:27 PM
Surely there are some empty jets - why do they still fly them?
I call it 'spam demand' - when the airlines lower their tickets to fill the excess seats. There's probably a real life demand for 20 daily seats from Aberdeen to Bournemouth. However if BA put a 747 on the route and sold the tickets for a fiver, they would undoubtedly be filled.
#11
Posted 19 April 2012 - 06:53 AM
I call it 'spam demand' - when the airlines lower their tickets to fill the excess seats. There's probably a real life demand for 20 daily seats from Aberdeen to Bournemouth. However if BA put a 747 on the route and sold the tickets for a fiver, they would undoubtedly be filled.
In the real world, yes, so are you saying that this game takes that into account?
I have been wondering about that - whether you can 'create demand' by marketing, cheap fares etc (in game of course)
#12
Posted 19 April 2012 - 07:25 AM
#13
Posted 19 April 2012 - 09:26 AM
Ryanair does it...
Administrator of UnitedSkies alliance
and also a member of some other ones, but they're 2vip4u
#14
Posted 19 April 2012 - 05:25 PM
With scam ifs, you can profit with $1 fares on these super-short-haul routes, creating an effectively unlimited revenue source.
Ryanair does it...
Ryanair does it with their $1 fares... plus the $100 'extras'
#15
Posted 12 July 2012 - 02:23 PM
#16
Posted 12 July 2012 - 02:26 PM
#17
Posted 22 August 2012 - 08:36 PM
#18
Posted 30 August 2012 - 08:49 PM
Ticket prices are high and older used planes are cheap.
#19
Posted 06 October 2012 - 11:51 PM
This would slow down growth and be more realistic.
#20
Posted 07 October 2012 - 12:04 AM
errrm, they already are. Try operating concorde, tu-144s, Yak-42s, Il-96s, VC-10s under competition. I've tried all of them but the tu-144 and all just make losses because they have such high fuel costs. I do however support fluctuating fuel prices eg. if the middle east refused to share oil tomorrow it could be set that fro 2012/2013 fuel prices went really high until 2014. Or possibly the addition of bio engines with a higher cost but much lower fuel costs.gas guzzling aircraft become expensive to operate.
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