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[jakelewisf1]

Hi all got an idea here,, in the UK we have a lot of charter airlines, i think that we should have the option to choose our business model for example a dedicated charter airline, a dedicated scheduled airline or a bit of both where most of your seats are charter pax but you can sell the remaining seats to non charter pax like Thomson Airways do, also with this idea i think we will need holiday companies like Thomson or Thomas Cook,, and we choose which one we fly for or sign a contract with,, also with the charter flights we should have different route pax figures as were flying for a package operator which means the the seats will be sold to a point anyway.

[highland]

i don't get that at all. so i'll sit here and figure it out.

* an option to chose a business model.
if this has anything to do with what another thread that had mentioned about choosing an airline that either flies passengers or just cargo.
then yes, i get the option bit idea. but that clearly is not what your talking about here is it.

* a dedicated scheduled airline. clearly i miss the point on this cause the way i understand it. that kind of thing is to say, already here.
"for instance"
say i was to open a route between toledo and detroit. and then claim that route to be a chartered route. " flight-route, whats the difference ".
ok now,
say i was to open a route from toledo to detroit the way it is already done in the game right now. so, i see no difference.

but, i willing to learn. so i grabbed my dictionary to find out what the heck is a chartered flight?

wait a minute, i do know what a chartered flight is. ya, that's right. mccarren to area 51. that's a chartered flight-route.
ok, i get it now, i see what a chartered flight is, and how it works.

now, how would that fit into this game?

is the game going to give each player " say " 10,000 passengers to spread out over " say " 50 routes to make sure that
those flights are covered as to not run in the red ?

where would all these charter passengers come from ? what would the percentage be between game passengers and game charter passengers ?

ok, now i'm lost again.

* sign contracts ? seasonal airline companies ?

ok,ok. let me try to play out one game year in my head to see how any or all of this would work.

dang, how would that work?

ok, scenario number one.

at the start of the game i'm given a choice of running a regular airline or a charter airline.
* i'll choose charter.
ok, what's next ? " haa haa haa haa " i'll get my one plane to start off with.
now what ? oh ya'. my airport. i'll start out in toledo.
ok, now. where will my first charter flight go ? toledo to where ??
i'll go from toledo to detroit, then spend my seven credits on leasing two more
airplanes so i can open up two more charter flights from toledo to " say " cleveland, and toledo to
columbus.
* do charter companies still have to buy gates? and airports and the other things just like normal
game airlines ?? forget that, let's just move on.

ok, now i have three charter routes-flights going. and that is assuming i was able to either find some
other airline company to sign contracts with.

gawd. forget this. i don't think i like the charter idea.

[Viking Air]

For charter airlines instead of passenger we should have somebody else who buy the capacity of the aircraft, tipically Tour Operators.
The tour operator buy the full capacity of the plane or part of it.

I would say that this doesn't make much sense here as we do not have an articulated fare system for our routes (i.e. for Y class we have 1 fare) and the system permits us to maximyse profit with 100% of load factor...... 1 fare, 100% load factor.... so whee is the difference with a tour operator buying the full capacity?

[jakelewisf1]

in the USA charter airlines are different to the uk i guess, what i mean is that the tour operator is flying its customer on a partner airline or an airline it owns, for example Thomson Holidays in the UK own Thomson Airways, Thomson Airways fly the customers of Thomson and First Choice Holidays,, then the airline will choose its routes and what time of year they fly, for example LGW - ALC would be a round year flight, but LGW - IBZ would be a summer only flight, and LGW - INN would be a winter only flight,, its quite simple really