FlyingDutchman7

Howcome the A340-500 can hold less pax than the -300 while being larger?
And howcome the -600 can hold only a few more pax than the -300 while being much larger?

Today I've been trying to make my airline more realistic.
I thought my airplanes could fly roughly between 6 am and 12pm (which does happen). That'd be 14 hours left. I made 20 of that to make it a bit more realistic.
When I looked at the on-time performance, BAM, it's still red. I changed the free hours to 30, BAM, still red.
How do I get that in the green? By having 140 free hours? Don't think that'd be realistic. (although I'd have to admit that 6 to 12 isn't realistic either )
On the other hand, long-haul planes fly almost coninuously (with the exeption of gate thingies and waiting to stay on schedule) That's because they fly through the night. They should be able to have only like 20 free hours, but have superb on-time performance.

Might this be a good idea?
A limit to the alliance size.
This way you don't get these alliances which just invite everybody, so they are the biggest alliance and have the biggest advantage.
In real world I think alliances of like 50 airlines would be torn apart by e.g. the European Union as it would be considered as a cartel.

I suggest a limit of 10% of the world. With a 300 airlines world this means a limit of 30 airlines.
With this limit, alliance owners finally really take into consideration who they want in their alliance. This also might start up more of a competition between the alliances to get the best airlines of the world in their alliance.

I'm quite new here and I've got some questions:

1. Why do most bigger routes have a bigger 'seats on market' bar compared to the 'daily demand' bar? How is that profitable, especially when the red bars are twice/four times as big as the blue one?
2. Why would it be better to fly a 100 seat plane 15 times to a city instead of a 150 seat plane 10 times to a city? So, why do you recommend starting with a smaller aircraft?
3. Is it just me or is the demand engine a bit too positive? I mean, a daily demand of 35 people from Pensacola to Provo wouldn't exist in real-life IMO... And the biggest airliners in R4 are just way too big to exist in real-life, especially if 10 of these huge airlines exist. Quite much the top 10 travels more passengers per year than the biggest airline according to Wiki (Delta (160 mln pax)). Also, for example Phoenix, has in real-life 1 flight to Europe (British Airways 747-400, flown it myself), while in R4 20 routes seem to be profitable. Howcome this big difference?
4. Denver's runways aren't this long for no reason. They are this long because of the altitude of the airport. Why isn't this a factor in the minimum runway length, or am I overlooking something?
5. Why do you recommend starting with short flights? Isn't it more profitable to keep your airplanes in the sky for the longest time possible? Everytime your plane lands (which is quite often if you've got only short routes), you have the 30 min. or so turn time.

I hope someone could help me with my questions. I might come up with more in the next few days