Czar_Alek

Yuxi, I have read your original post and this is a reply to that. 

I loved AE when I first started playing it, but I only was interested for a few weeks because it got very repetitive quickly. I got bored of just buying planes and adding more routes. 

The thing that would get me most interested in the game would become more of a sandbox game in a way. To "win" in AE, I feel like I need to expand my airline. 

Here are my sugestions on how to fix the problem of huge, unrealistic airlines that are no fun. 

First, facilitate fun gameplay for all types of airlines. This means a huge overhaul of the passenger system. This allows for different types of airlines such as LowCostCarriers, legacy airlines, regionals, transit airlines, Flag carriers, leisure airlines, etc.

So put passengers in different catagories:

Business travelers

premium passengers

vacationers

budget travelers

diaspora/immigrants

etc

and then passengers have more choices about how to get to their destinations, just like in real life. For example, airlines flying LHR to IST would also have to compete with a airline based in CDG that offers conections to both IST from LHR. 

Next, also classify airports into different catagories:

Capitols (extra demands between two capitols, especially between friendly nations and neighbors) 

Vacation spots (seasonal demand)

Business centers (more business demand)

Also make modifiers for passenger demand between certain countries. In real life, there are six daily flights between Belgrade and Tivat, but in AE, there is only demand for one small plane every week. This could be fixed by linking certain countries such as Serbia-Montenegro, Romania-Spain (over a million Romanians living in Spain). 

So in conclusion, overhaul of the entire passenger demand system would completely redesign the game and make it more realistic/interesting. 

My dream is being able to build an airline in Baku that can just survive on transit passengers between Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East, but right now that isn't possible because the current system only really focuses on point-to-point travel.