yes it is. Once my mom was in the left most seat in the center section on EK in business, and she said that the person across the triple started complaining about her reading light!

Spoiled or what! But then you'd expect stuff like that to be working when you pay that much

Possibly. The X may be quicker than those two, but it only ties the Corvette Z06 when it's in ludicrous. The 3 may change the market because it's a tesla and has the wow feature, but there is also the Bolt, which does compete quite heavily in that market, in terms of cheap electric cars that aren't terrible and have some semblance of range.

From what I can tell, the 3 is going to end up being a value purchase, despite it's high price. It's looking like an incredibly well designed product compared to the Bolt. The Bolt has around 7000 orders this year from what I have seen. The 3 has over 400000. Tesla is having a hard time making the 3, but they are winding up rapidly. I reckon they'll be in full flow by january. And I reckon that is when the market dimension will shift in no way ever seen before in this millennia.

Yes - exactly. We really need more mods - or just a couple that are active.

Yh. I'd be welcome to apply for mod post, but then I have no chance of getting it . I nominate Kai for mod.

Yup. I now hate the CSeries too now that airbus has bought more than half of the bloody program

Only 50.01%. It does annoy me that bombardier has now got a minority share in it's own product       

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You may have definitely proved his point

Hey - I know that you hate me - and you guys banned me from the Discord, but I would like to point something out about me. I've talked to three different people about helping you guys - one of them is proficient in Python if you're interested but it seems like you have a lot of Python people. I have experience running things on forums, namely Universal, and I'm also taking a Leadership course and receiving a high A (94% when I was last told). I can also provide any other service that you'd want. Please let me know and don't just ignore me - I'm really trying to help here.

Do you know what the others are good in?

And we actually do not have many people for Python. JS and PHP is the one we really are wanting for right now.

The current AEv3 build is mostly PHP in the back end with JavaScript taking care of most of the stuff the player sees (charts, graphs, etc). Unless somebody suggests a reason otherwise we'd like to keep that basic arrangement for the sake of easy translation of popular AE features to AEv4.

That said I've been told current AE code "looks more or less like somebody skull****ed spaghetti" (I'm paraphrasing).

Ouch. I saw your comment about the AE error logs (100GB a month or something ridiculous)

I find that a big reason a lot of in-game realistic airlines go bankrupt is because when they are small airlines, they don't route planes when they get them, or a few hours after, but instead wait for a day and do it for some reason. 

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You have to have good dedication. Preferably checking AE at least twice on a daily basis. Running profitable and realistic airlines takes a lot of work, dedication and practice. That's why it took me 3 years to work it out. But it is well worth the investment if you are after the level of respect a community will give you. I used to get harassed in the community so much, but that doesn't happen anymore. I am proud of how far I personally have come, and many people on here have the potential to do at least as much. Beating spammers just requires a certain knack for demand manipulation

When you are willing to fly on an inferior airline to get a better aircraft (eg Finnair to fly an A330 rather than Emirates for a 777). Although I do not think there is that significant a difference between the two, especially when price is considered.

At this point?

Those who have Javascript, PHP, Ruby or even Python programming knowledge. Those with web admin experience, backend experience. Those who know the ins and outs of IPBoard. Those who have project planning and management experience.

Then those who don't.

I have very basic python. Not entirely sure how it will help, but maybe it could.

Banned because you crashed into a airport terminal.

Banned because that was a bad driver.

if you really want to base your airline off of the absolute maximum, then US Airways had 16.80 hours util in 2001.

Is that shaded questionable as well?

Banned for being a giant mountain.

Banned because I am actually the fastest accelerating production car in the world at road legal speeds

Banned for derailing a decent thread

What's the hierarchy here?

There isn't one. Except that immature childish posts are not permitted. I'm hoping maestro will ban any immature posters on here (namely Marb1 and kineticcrusher)

Must be Airboss777

You just undermined my defence of your poll. Congrats. Anyway, I don't think this is how you intended this thread to work out

Maybe you should meet some social etiquette experts on threadneedle street

Is this a joke? You didn't start that thread!

No. It's meant for serious mature discussion about how to increase AE's pace of development. I logged in today to see the thread locked. And I read what got it locked. And decided to start this with a disclaimer

Yeah well - I can suffer through 757 issues personally - I'm never going to fly that airbus. In terms of IRL, sure the 321LR would work, however, it still just isn't the same. The 787 is a great replacement for long-runway routes, which a lot of them are anyhow, and the 737 MAX 9 and MAX 10 will suffice for shorter distance routes.

I reckon you'll be running the Boeing Only Aircraft Corporation soon  

Brilliant move in my opinion!  Bombardier still gets to fulfill their obligations to their customer, Delta Airlines, who ordered a large amount of CSeries aircraft & is crucial to the program's success.  This is a great way for them to retaliate against the US Government's overly protectionist sanctions, which I feel do not have a place in the global aviation industry.  I wish them well in their endeavour.

YES!!! Finally Bombardier has the chance to stick a big middle finger in Boeing's face. Time for Boeing to admit they have an inferior product and actually catch up

What about an exponentially-scaling "luxury tax" that increases as airlines grow? So there is an underlying "maintenance" cost of running an airline that gets bigger as the airline gets bigger that keeps you making a more linear profit curve rather than making money exponentially as the airline gets bigger.

 

Basically, at year 5, you can afford 10 A320s per year. In the current landscape, at year 10, you could afford 25,000 A320s per year. With a scaling airline-overhead cost, maybe you could only actually afford 20 A320s in year 10.

Brilliant suggestion, but AE is not in development anymore until this community gets it's own developer team together to build AE4 itself

Since the original 8 page thread got locked due to immature behaviour by some posting on it, I have restarted it here, as it is a serious discussion. 

If you want to post anything immature at all here, dont.

Post it on this thread where nobody cares at all. Link is below.

http://www.airline-e...e-2#entry248064

Anyway, for those holding a serious discussion, feel free to continue in a calm, composed and productive manner. May discussions recommence.

Maestro, please do not lock this thread. Just ban the immature ones who hijack it. Thank you in advance. Hopefully your services will not be required on this thread. I know your life extends well beyond this game.

I respect people who respect me. Have you respected me? NO! Have I bothered you? NO!

Calm down Marb. People struggle with your sometimes immature posts and potential lack of understanding of these forums. You just need to make sure your posts are appropriate. Actually, myself, you and Zortan do. We are by far the highest posting daily members to the point it is irritating people. We all need to keep a lid on our posts. 

Marb, do you not realize that age is a personal privacy for everyone and nobody has no reason to share theirs with you? Come on man, have SOME respect for people.

Also, the results are not public. Only the spread is. We don't know who the one person who is 30+ is

Personally the opposite is true with me, especially when you have a long-range plane. For example, with the 747, I make a lot more money flying JFK-NRT than I do flying JFK-LAX.

JFK-NRT is ridiculously long though. It's way past all the price breaks. Although if you have the route to yourself and decent service you can charge a pretty penny for anyone flying.