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[90302654]

Hello,

 

Can anyone help me start an airline through shared control? I have started several airlines and all of them have failed.

[grimsleeper]

What do you do when you start an airline?  If you tell more about what you are doing we can better help you to run a successfull airline yourself.

[90302654]

• I choose the plane that can fly the farthest. 
•   Then I start buying airports and using up all the hours
• Then later I check the airline and im down 9 million dollars

[Keelung]

I can help, just private message me about which world you want to start in and we will see what we can do.

[90302654]

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[the DOC]

I can help. Every airline I start and take seriously makes 1st place but then I get bored and it falls but if it's just a start you want I can help (:

[FuturePilot35]

Hi, I don't think I want to share control, but I can give you some tips. When starting, you may want to start flying short haul of up to maybe 3000 miles. A320 makes a decent profit. Lease the oldest and cheapest planes on the market. Choose airport with decent demand of 200 and above (for the A320) and keep adjusting the price till it's just right.

[2ndAcr]

Choose best plane, not longest range.........base at a under 100,000 airport gate cost at start until you know what you are doing. This will keep costs low. Route to under 100,000 gates until you reach the 2 mil a day profit until you know what you are doing. Try to hit routes that your plane can do 21 flights easily and cover the demand. Try to fly non long haul at roughly 1/2 the planes normal range max so a A320 -2 will be about 1300 miles range to max profit potential.

 

Play with the seat config, avoid all economy as that is what the route spammers use most times and if you fly with F and C class set ups, you will destroy them in any price fight as your F and C will allow you to make a profit.

 

For example, I would base say St Louis in US and run a route to Memphis, then hit Nashville, then route to FLL, TPA, MSY, MKE, IND. Once I had those basic routes started, and I am getting a decent flow of planes, since I have unused slots at each of those airports, you will start seeing MEM-FLL, MEM-IND, IND-FLL, FLL-MKE and such showing up as I use all slots avail at the airports on my leased gates while I connect my airports and such. I really try to avoid leasing another gate until I have to at game start. Just hit 21 flights on a route (whether you cover demand or not) and move to the next route.

 

 Until you have a decent grasp, avoid the big airports and the main trunk routes at all costs for example JFK-ORD, JFK-DFW, DFW-LAX and such. Those routes will get hammered more often than not. If you do hit them, slap 21 flights and move on to the next, this will allow you to maintain your ticket price longer without constant price adjusts.

 

 Oh and remember that each plane type (737, 757, A320) brings a base maint cost with it. Until you got a good grasp avoid having 4 and 5 family types each with a maint hit each month. It can be costly. Avoid bonds until day 6-10.............always do the math before spending cash on hand prior to the 15th and the 24th of the month. it can be rough going until you hit 10 mil a day profit, after that, it is pretty much easy going after that.