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[channy_thegreat]

I am almost always in the top 10. Not always, but 90% of the time. 

According to your awards, you have only managed the "top ten" three times (which is 3 more than me) so unless youve only had 3.3 airlines in your AE career, this is an erroneous wildly fictitious statement. To the gallows, good sir. 

[pseudoswede]

I've only had three airlines. All three have finished/will finish in 1st place.

[Stevphfeniey]

The only airline I can think of that's run as many fleet types as say this: http://ae31.airline-...e3r2&player=297 is Aeroflot of the USSR. And most of Aeroflot's aircraft back then were in more or less a military/governmental role, not a commercial one. Thanks to the free market, airlines are doing all they can to keep their fleet types under control. However, one might say that there are exceptions, and there are. For example, Delta Airlines, the world's largest airline in terms of fleet numbers, operates 20 different individual aircraft types (ie: MD-88, MD-90, 737-800...). The airline I used mentioned above operates 44. The largest airline in RDelta so far operates 11, with a fleet of 160 aircraft. 

To me, this is silly, and personally I'd love to see increased penalties for operating many different types. Because logically, if I operate DC-10s, MD-11s, L-1011s, 747s, 767s, 777s and IL-96s for my intercontinental flights, my maintenance should be stupidly high for these aircraft due to vastly different engine components and whatnot. Crew training costs should be high because none of these aircraft have similar cockpit layouts and flight characteristics. But, alas, this limit does not exist in AE. 

[pseudoswede]

To me, this is silly, and personally I'd love to see increased penalties for operating many different types.

It does. The number of employees needed is outrageously higher than it should be. It gets compounded for every aircraft family you use.

[Stevphfeniey]

Yet it people still order boatloads of different aircraft types, so to me, it doesn't appear to be doing much. However, I'm aware that ordering a large number of aircraft types isn't the only reason why airlines get's outrageously large...

[channy_thegreat]

Stephan i comply agree with you. Except from a more technical standpoint, with your example of Delta and the MD88 and 90, they more or less have overlapping maintenance programs and similar designs or components so from an accounting/management cost savings stance alot of those costs could be spread across their fleet of 88/90's, which if you've ever flown delta a lot through atlanta, from Ohio(my situation) you know all about those MD88/90's also they're being retired soon. 

 

But when it comes to AE i try and maintain a reasonable fleet. Look at my airlines, especially Harbin Regional, I operate one airframe manufacturer and one specific type for all flights within the range of that plane, now I am buying a new type to go the larger radi from CLT.

 

I find when I buy random types I tend to confuse myself and forget the plans i had for a specific a/f type. 

 

Thanks for the input steven!

[channy_thegreat]

It does. The number of employees needed is outrageously higher than it should be. It gets compounded for every aircraft family you use.

This is irrelevant though, because you get an insane number of aircraft from bin dumps, on top of that, you can pay these new employees $7/hour it really offsets the increased employee requirement numbers.

 

The new ae4 should set a fixed rate for each segment or job type. Or even better is have labor negotiations every X years based on the competitors you face on your routes employees rates with strikes possible. Good luck on agreeing on a common form for this idea though.            

[the DOC]

There's different types of Airlines. In  S3C , Skycar and Vern Air are completely different airlines. He has a huge amount  of  different planes and huge amount of passengers, and shot up from behind. I have few  BIGGER planes and less passengers . And have creeped up.  Because my cost and passenger happiness, Are lower.  We are in different continents. Skycar is getting a lot of passengers. I am getting on high demand routes. And getting high revenue passengers.

SkyCar was handed over to another player because it's owner (me) didn't have the time to run it.  The new player has slashed it's DOP from $70 million to $37 million. It probably won't even make the top 10 now because of that