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[cthulhuiscool2]

Title says it all. Really struggling to set up an airline that doesn't decend into crippling debt and bankruptcy and could do with some help from someone competent. Thanks.

[Pacific]

Broad Gameplan:
1. Seeing how tiny the aircraft are in 1950, I would recommend starting in a secondary city with 10-20 million pax serving secondary-secondary and secondary-tertiary cities to save on gate costs.

2. It would be advantageous to pick a nation with several big cities, instead of a city-state due to the limited range of the aircraft restricting available destinations. For a new player, Japan may be a good place to get the hang of the game. ITM or NGO would be a good starting base.

 

How to start:

1. The Vickers Viking is the best bet for your starting aircraft due to its superior speed.

2. Use the "Browse Airports" function to look for every airport within 400 miles from your base. Start by flying 100 mile routes, increasing the distance until you hit 400 (or the 10 gate limit).

3. Start a new focus city and repeat until you run out of available focus cities.

4. Now, you should have a decent income stream to create a hub and a terminal to have more than 10 gates.

 

Short-term aircraft choice
1. Keep leasing Vikings and Convair CV-240s.

2. The short-term goal is to earn enough income to lease DC-6s until the jet age arrives.

How to print money and be hated in this neighbourhood:

If you want your airline to be resistant to capacity dumping by larger airlines, you'll have to forego some aspects of "realistic" operations.

1. Low employee pay, max seating density and charging high for bad IFE/IFS is a sure money printer.

2. Max aircraft utilization

3. If you intend to create a monster airline with thousands of aircraft, all-economy seating really cuts down on load factor maintenance (less clicks involved in route resetting) and increases the hub effect due to pax volume.

 

Anything else?
Log in every few hours to make sure someone hasn't wrecked your routes. Once a day does not cut it especially when starting up.
 

[cthulhuiscool2]

Broad Gameplan:
1. Seeing how tiny the aircraft are in 1950, I would recommend starting in a secondary city with 10-20 million pax serving secondary-secondary and secondary-tertiary cities to save on gate costs.

2. It would be advantageous to pick a nation with several big cities, instead of a city-state due to the limited range of the aircraft restricting available destinations. For a new player, Japan may be a good place to get the hang of the game. ITM or NGO would be a good starting base.

 

How to start:

1. The Vickers Viking is the best bet for your starting aircraft due to its superior speed.

2. Use the "Browse Airports" function to look for every airport within 400 miles from your base. Start by flying 100 mile routes, increasing the distance until you hit 400 (or the 10 gate limit).

3. Start a new focus city and repeat until you run out of available focus cities.

4. Now, you should have a decent income stream to create a hub and a terminal to have more than 10 gates.

 

Short-term aircraft choice
1. Keep leasing Vikings and Convair CV-240s.

2. The short-term goal is to earn enough income to lease DC-6s until the jet age arrives.

How to print money and be hated in this neighbourhood:

If you want your airline to be resistant to capacity dumping by larger airlines, you'll have to forego some aspects of "realistic" operations.

1. Low employee pay, max seating density and charging high for bad IFE/IFS is a sure money printer.

2. Max aircraft utilization

3. If you intend to create a monster airline with thousands of aircraft, all-economy seating really cuts down on load factor maintenance (less clicks involved in route resetting) and increases the hub effect due to pax volume.

 

Anything else?
Log in every few hours to make sure someone hasn't wrecked your routes. Once a day does not cut it especially when starting up.
 

 

This is amazing thanks, I'll give it another go myself.