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Oh and IA is leader of the Commonwealth alliance. Not sure what that really does for you!

We get a monthly deduction for depreciation, but when we buy an aircraft it appears as a capital purchase and reduces our balance (&profit/loss) and when we sell the aircraft we get much less for it. Is this not double accounting?

Surely depreciation is to offset the cost of an asset over the period it will operate. Eg a 100M plane used for 10 years with say a 50M 2nd hand price at the end would see a depreciation of 5M per year on the profit/loss sheet, regardless of how and when the plane manufacturer was paid.

It seems depreciation is covered by paying up front then receiving the smaller amount it sells for after X years all managed via cash balance - so what is the monthly deduction about?

For valuation I understand - but why does the cost come out of income and affect profit/loss?

Is this just a symptom of AE merging cash flow and accounting into one (as is common in games) in order to simplify the game whislt retaining realistic sounding aspects?

Not a criticism by the way as I appreciate it is all free - just a bit confused!

Hmmm, curious! It did seem odd I could get a 4* food rating of level 1 quality food though!

 

Am staying away from charging (bar current scam IFS to enable building up!), as I can't remember ever flying anywhere with a non Easyjet airline where I paid anything other than the ticket price for any item food or accessories (not seen souvenirs on board though bar the shop which would expect to pay for). 

 

thanks for feedback that a bug though, cheers.

On S2 it makes a huge difference given the importance of every dollar and the vastly slower growth rate. I've never done it before but tried it and reduced my wages cost by nearly 80% overall, training costs barely changed, an increase but at the same rate I had previously seen increases as I added aircraft.

 

Attrition rises to 4-6%, but that is peanuts. The big salary cost due to numbers of people (70%) is cabin crew circa $35. Recruiting 6% more per year is irrelevant when you are saving 80% of the salary, especially as you'd see a couple of % anyway.

BAe New Regional Aircraft (NRA) - the twin engine version of the 146 instead of the rather boring RJ upgrade. Could have been a contender... I'd call it the 246. I'm original like that.

 

Alternative would be the Vickers VC.7 another "what if" of aviation.