flying shorter routes will generally boost your profit margins by a significant amount. [ as a general rule]

There are certain price breaks. 

50 miles

100 miles

500 miles

1000 miles

2500 miles

5000 miles

and likely others. 

Being just above a price break will make a route quite profitable usually. Being just under will make it tough. But that varies. 

Also, shorter routes are ​generally ​more competitive, as the barriers to entry are far lower. But that doesn't stop markets like LHR-JFK becoming massively overcrowded.I regularly find short routes priced down to 20 of their original market prices. Whereas longer routes tend to be more about clever manipulation if you know how the system works at all

It's not all about money. As Stevph was saying, we also need people who are fluent in coding.

I'm not that either. I would have to learn JSS from scratch starting right now to have a chance of making the team. My only experience is Python. Which is completely useless here.

Brilliant idea. I will politely mention that AE is under pretty much zero development right now because of aformentioned developer crisis in the AE development thread.

How about this. 

Joining the AE developer team in exchange for x% of the final revenues of the game (AD revenue). x will change depending on numbers. Yuxi is not included in these as he is assumed to be dead at this point in time. With 2 developers taking 50% of all final revenue each, I think this game would progress rapidly. I do not know when AE3 came out, because I was not internet fluent enough to find this website at the time. I do not know how well this would work, but I think someone may take it up. Please comment on whether this is feasible (without being an abrasive penis in the process). I am open to constructive feedback and anything that could help this game to progress.

Hey there AE community!

I'm wondering what a good profit margin is. I currently have about 10% or more each month. Is this good? If not, how could I fix it? If this is good, what should be my next step into becoming a larger airline?

Depending on the type of airline, it varies. 

​If this is a realistic fairly good service airline (basically anything other than a spamline or ULCC) then 10% is good going. My airline Blue Air (premium low fare short haul, premium full service long haul) averaged around 8% initially (average AC utilisation of around 11 hours daily). By the end of the world, it was averaging 19-22%. Average aircraft utilisation was around 12 for short haul planes and 14 for long haul ones. Long haul boosted margins significantly. For a primarily short haul airline, especially anything other than a spamline or ULCC, 10% is very good. Keep it up. 

I just looked at your airline (by the way, Norwegian isn't US based (yet). Norwegian is an odd airline that sets up subsidiaries of itself to get around traffic restrictions, often in odd places. But they don't have a US one just yet. With your aircraft utilisation figures, you should be scoring far higher than 10% profit margin. Obviously things are tough at the start, but once established, 10% is not good enough for this type of airline. A spamline typically acheives around 25-30% once they settle down a bit and are more established. 10 is good for alliance airlines running under severe realism restrictions. These make running profitably very challenging, but 10% is achievable in those circumstances. If as a spamline or genuinely not attempting to be realistic airline you are getting only 10%, you need to optimise, especially in wages, aircraft operations and gate payments

I'd agree with you on that somewhat. ULCCs even fly with less hours than 20/day, and most of them don't like overfilling routes with capacity. Just saying.

True. Spamlines on here are the equivalents of ULCCs around their early stages. They wowed with relatively cheap fares and saved by cutting services. That's what spamlines do. But spamlines are taking the mick a bit

I would say that an X is a far better buy than those two, as it is quicker at legal speeds, but the S is even better still, and the 3 is set to radically change how the entire market operates and what people expect

I am was a very active member of AE but when inactive cause i got bored cause it felt like a de ja vu for me. But still i love AE and will for ever. If there is anyway i can help in maintaining AE or A new website i would be extremely happy to help. Next year i will be able to help ( financially ) with 200-300 $ if you guys need it.

I could probably help, but am saving up for something far more serious (first car, because I can't trust that my parents will cover it)

I agree that spamlines are awful and annoying and unrealistic. But so were low cost airlines when they first entered the scene. They had the same issues that spamlines do relative to others. But they are commonplace. Spamlines are the UULCCs of AE. We have to adapt and compete against them. The best realistic players and airlines survive. I have done so personally, finishing 93rd in R6 recently with my beloved airline (Blue AIr). It didn't finish high, but it created a market perch and caused trouble for other airlines operating in that area and they had to work hard to compete. Spamlines make surviving quite hard, and the raft of never to be implemented suggestions would make it even harder (I want that). However, nothing in this forum will ever be done, because nothing is being done with this game anymore. So we should calm down and enjoy the at best last 3 years that this game will last.

Yeah, you pile of fecal matter!

Calm your faeces. I don't want to become a powerless moderator on this thread. The behaviour of some people on this thread can be bettered by a 7 year old. Get your acts together

Yes - probably it is. It has the show-off factor, but just isn't that great. Another thing: Absolutely NO storage in the second row for ANYTHING. There's a couple of cupholders, but that's it. I hear that they're now offering a console, but we didn't get offered that at the time - literally no where to put anything except on the floor!

That's so bad. Clearly, the way it is going. The S is going to be tesla's best product, then the 3, then the X. The X is looking more and more pointless the more I read and hear about it.

Lolz sorry

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Banned because they are actually decent

he loves to have sex

This is an incredible suggestion for this game. Unfortunately, this game is not being developed any more and has received no updates for nearly 5 years. I would suggest you give up any hope of getting anything added at all.

Well - there's a long list. Here goes - don't say I'm wrong, I have one!:

1. Seat Comfort and Legroom: The third row seat is almost touching the back of the second row, so you don't really have any space. Luckily - We have the 6-seat, so I can put my seats up the aisle, but for the 7-seat package, i can't imagine it would be good, especially for me at 6 feet or even my brother at 5'4" - he was complaining after a 1-hour drive in the third row Seat comfort: Second row seats, while they do have the cool power recline and stuff, are really thinly padded, and the cushions on the third row don't provide much support at all. The headrests on all seats are rock-hard, but that's not tesla's fault - they're all like that these days. Just saying though, I'd rather sit in my 2004 Volvo V70R than in the Tesla - plus the Volvo seats 7 instead of the tesla's 6 - so.....
2. Cargo room: When the third row is up - I can barely fit anything in that minuscule trunk. Example: Once we (family of 4) took two extra guests (6 total) on a trip to a family friend's birthday party. We also have a dog. We stuffed the Frunk full - and that isn't AC'ed BTW, and then also the smuggler's hatch. The dog then had to stand on top of the lid the smuggler's hatch, and we could barely close the trunk with him in it behind the third row - definitely NO room for his crate - he could barely move the entire time - I doubt he was happy - I definitely wasn't in the third row - see point above
3. Autopilot: While many people like this feature - we've got the AP2.0 on our recent P100D model - and it is pretty damn idiotic. once it tried to turn off the road and into a ravine, and once it very nearly rear-ended a BMW 3-series after taking a corner on a normal downtown city street - it isn't the smartest
4. Price - I know that Tesla's added more standard features for the new models, but honestly, we had to pay more for heated and cooled seats on a $150,000 car - we also had to pay more for good speakers, more for any paint color other than black, and more for other wheels, should we have wanted them. We also had to pay for a decent climate control system, and we had to pay for many other things which are standard on sub-$100,000 cadillacs 24-7
5. Doors - while the doors are frickn' amazing - they do have a few flaws. They require a lot of height, which is definitely not ideal for an urban parking garage. Also see the next point for another bit on the doors.
6. Reliability: As soon as we got the car - the AC was broken. The heater worked, but no cold air ever came out of it. It was January - so that was fine, but in May, we realized it didn't work. It took them over a month to get parts, etc. and it took forever to get the sweating done with. Also - doors. The right falcon wing is broken for us. it's badly aligned, so when you close it, it sometimes strikes the window with the main body of the car, so our rear window on that side is very chipped - and so we can't even use the door for fear of breaking the window totally.

Probably a bunch more i'm forgetting - But my fingers are getting tired from typing so much

Ouch. Sounds like the X is a poor purchase compared to an S then.

yes - it does depend on the flight. Malaysia airlines is putting lie-flat C class on their 737 MAX 10s. American has F C W and Y class on the A321 - so, anything is possible. But in most cases, first class on a small plane is a bad idea.

Very true. 

Also, for original suggestion poster, this suggestion will be implemented in AE4 in the year 3002.

I hope this also stops people who puts first class on a Boeing 737-300 lol

Depends if it's a medium-haul transcontinental flight or not. If that's the case, no real problem with it

Community isn't dead, just repetitive. Every year we get new people who post the exact same things and we get ten or twenty good ones who stick around.. chat's been moved away from Airline Empires and is now in Discord.

More then that many, but it's a shamefully small minority. I'm not sure I would qualify for that group tbh

Hi! I have a question: Why should I open a hub? I don't see any advantage, and you have to pay more...

If you know the answer, please let me know. Thanks!    

Connecting passengers, but that's about it. It's what allows spamlines to become what they become. ​But, ​for realistic airlines there is not much point in having more than about 5 at most (around 5% of a decent size airline network)

haha true. Also - most minivans are made by toyota and honda, at least here in usa. and ppl here like the domestic cars (tesla and the big three) better. Like, my dad was looking at minivans, but bought a tesla model x instead. Worse car, but it's american and looks amazing

How is a tesla model x a worse car than a minivan. A Model X is frickin' awesome wherever you are sitting.

I do not support this. We need more moderators. Not arbitrary FU's to new members who want to contribute or may need help

On the Finnair A350, seat 8A is a yellow seat. Marked down for proximity to lavatories

Doesn't have help that Yuxi died in 2014 and the websites been running off a bot since then

Really?

Dear relatively new member called AVA, 

Please look to the top right of this page to discover a wonder known as a search bar. Before posting a suggestion, please use this innovative feature to figure out whether your suggestion has been made previously. If not, then post, otherwise, please politely refrain from doing so. 

Thank you,

Tesla