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Kontio

Kontio

Member Since 14 Aug 2006
Offline Last Active Oct 24 2009 03:29 PM

Used Beech

17 May 2008 - 07:27 PM

I bought a used Beech 1900D from the used market. I placed my bid with a maximum price of 0 (testing what that would do, hoping to get a Beech immediately at any price, basically) and a Beech was immediately delivered with the price of -180,000 and I was charged slightly less than 6 million. The plane is still flying WAW-FRA (I have neither of those gates). This may be a bug?

So how does the new used aircraft market work?

14 May 2008 - 03:57 PM

I understand that you make bids to buy aircraft and offers to sell them. When a bid and an offer match, the system automatically executes the sale. This is how I have always thought it should be. What I don't understand is how am I supposed to do business if I can't see the bids and offers anywhere? It is just showing the values of the aircraft, which is rather pointless. What I want to see is what is the highest bid and the lowest offer at the moment, and also the second and third best offers, if possible. I also want to see the price of the latest sale for any given airplane. The whole idea with a stock market type system is that all this information is public.

So am I missing something here, is the information available somewhere? What do I have to do to sell my Beeches?

Add countries in "Gate rental negotiations"

19 December 2007 - 10:12 PM

Would it be possible to add the state and country to the city name in "Gate rental negotiations"? This information should be available in the game database as it is shown when selecting the city pair in "Research route".

LF 100% with autoprice

18 December 2007 - 11:32 PM

I have hubbed DTW and am flying to big cities and small cities with big planes and small planes. After opening the hub I have noticed that autoprice tends to make the loadfactors go all the way to 100%, which is kind of nice but somehow seems wrong. When I first create a route it gives a more realistic loadfactors, but when I open more routes the older routes sort of creep up to 100% LF. Not all routes, but most of them.

Looking at the route information pages with the pie charts of routes with 100% LF I notice something weird. For example, DTW-ALB with 1X ATR-42, it says:

O&D passengers 70%
Connecting passengers 30%
Unused capacity 61%

O&D + connecting is always 100% and then there is additional unused capacity. That can't be right, or is it just a problem with the chart?

Disproportionate demand in sim2

18 December 2007 - 11:15 PM

I'm flying DTW to DEC (Decatur, IL) with a 739 and autoprice gives me ticket price $1,197.00 for one daily flight and a a nice profit correspondingly. This seems really disproportionate compared to other nearby little airports I am flying to which barely make any money with a Beech. I actually checked the Decatur airport web page and their only scheduled flight is to STL twice daily on a Beech 1900 :P