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[typlane]

Hi

I love the game when I was making huge airlines and starting from a different country everytime but I grew bored of it and I`m tring something else. Starting a small airline flying point to point in northern canada, there are other regions this applies to as well. But I was sorry to find out it`s absolutely pointless as the passenger figures are absolutely off. For one example Inuvik to Yellowknife a fairly popular route for Canadian North and First Air flying 2x 737-200 a day charging outrageous amounts of money as well up between 1,000 to 2,000 dollars can`t even support 8 passengers in Airline Empires.
I appreciate the game and love it believe me but I feel like the developers have taken the build the biggest airline thing to far and you put in so much time into inputting hundreds if not thousands of small airports which in some cases have no duty at all being in the game aka fort mcpherson NWT, having 0 passengers on it`s yellowknife route the only possible route that should support at least a small DH-6 daily.

Thanks Typlane
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[SWMcCaig]

I'm still pretty new, but I've thought the same thing. It would be nice to see more support for smaller operations, I just don't know how hard it would be to implement, or what effect it would have on the bigger airlines.

[pseudoswede]

Individual city-pair demand is a much more complex and time-consuming task compared to finding all of the airports in the world with commercial service. Just because two 737s fly between two small airports does not mean there is actual demand for 160-200 pax on a daily basis. I imagine those aircraft carry much more cargo than pax. And why do they charge $1-2k? Because they can.

[Yuxi]

There are currently 3,924,201 possible routes in AE. Basing route demand based on real-life data (especially trying to find a uniform collection of O&D traffic, not distorted by megahubs like ATL) is simply not feasible. The demand generation algorithm could certainly be made to be more sophisticated - that's the only thing we can do.

[Ioh]

I managed to successfully run a UK based regional carrier serving every airport with a runway over 6000ft, alot of the routes were less than 5 yet I managed

[Pineair]

It is difficult to strike the right balance and as Yuxi has implied the current method of calculation is a little too simple. Much time has been spent over recent months on trying to get more realistic demand figure for US airport as the figure were far too high. I once had a terminal with 35 gate at Mackinac Island with flight to 150 airports.Did similar thing with Yellowknife, flights to Geenland and Iceland etc, but so unrealistic.

Central Africa is a bit of a challenge!!

[berubium]

Keep in mind that the Yellowknife - Inuvik flight uses 737-200 combis that carry a lot more cargo than people. Also, I would guess that many of those passengers are connecting from Yellowknife to points south such as Edmonton, Calgary, or Vancouver.

Even though there is little use for most of those airports now, I'm glad they've been inputted into the game. They'll certainly be more accessible when stopovers are implemented. In the future, when we're allowed to have stopovers, I plan on setting up milk-run routes that start at a place like Vancouver or Edmonton (or Montreal in the east) & stop at 5 or 6 arctic communities along the way. Those types of runs still exist today in the frontier...