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Actually, my definition of Spamliners is the correct definition. The owner and the admins of this website would agree with me.

 

There are differences between Realistic Airlines that uses Widebodies on shorter routes (Emirates with their A380 on regional middle eastern flights or Japanese domestic B747 routes because of congestion on their local airport) Vs. yours.

 

Most airlines, especially in the US, would rather fly smaller planes like B757 and A321, or even A310, A300, A330 and B767 back in the day on some major routes instead of B747. Some do on occasion, but they wouldn't have hundreds of B747 A300 and A340 on their fleet.

 

The other factor that confirmed that your airlines is a Spamliners is the fact that the daily utilization rate for your aircrafts is close to 19 hours per day. Most widebodies have daily utilization rates of 12-13 hours for longer flights, and less than 12 hours for shorter regional or domestic flights.

 

So yes, we all could confirmed that your airlines is a Spamliners.

Meh, we can agree to disagree. I'll just stay off the forums, not as welcoming as I thought.

But you also run unrealistic spamliners. You can't get mad at others for doing the same thing you do.

 

You Alaskan Airlines operate 213 B747-400, alongside 334 A300-600R, and 335 A340-400.

 

None of those scenario would be realistic in real life. 50 B747-400 maybe, but not 213.

Yes, I do like to operate large capacity planes, but I consider a spamliner to be someone flying hundreds of frequencies well in excess of demand (1 demand with 24,000 capacity), usually between hubs. I never grossly exceed demand and I'm a little offended you think that of me lol. God forbid I put a 747 on a daily route between cities with 500 pax demand. The demand is always there for my 747's   But we could sit here are argue all day about what a spamliner is. I respect your opinion.

I feel you, I was all excited to finally get first place (Valuation) in S2 after working so long for years, then a spamliner popped up and is likely going to overtake me 

 

1. Do I need to start leasing a new plane now?

 

 2.    Slots Available: 2 of 50 (1 gates leased), how to improve Airport Slots Available?

 

 

Let me know if you have any other suggestions。

 

(Sorry for my bad English, so use translation)

 

1. When you have the money available, definitely lease new planes to grow. Although more expensive, larger airplanes like the A320 and B737 will be much more profitable than smaller airplanes (Saab, Embraer). I normally lease the A320 or B737 first and once I get a comfortable cash cushion I lease some smaller planes to get smaller airports.

2. When you "Browse Airports" and get to the route page between your home airport and new destination, there should be a "Lease Gate" button on the side with your home airport. As far as I am aware, theres no real advantage to having an abundance of slots open so I lease gates one at a time when I run out of slots or get low.

Hope this helps!

Just close it. I closed the no.1 airline in S2 a few days ago.

RIP Pan Am, the Anti Vaxxer has taken over

In all seriousness though, I agree with those above that closing/bankrupting airlines is highly therapeutic. It frees up so much time after you've had your fun.