Sign In
Create Account
Posted by
Hi
I've been playing AE for half a year now and I've always played as realistic as I could (not spamming too many routes, having layouts with more than one inch seat space etc.) However, in the last few games I've always came across this one other airline that tried to simply push me out. Just now I'm playing based in Muscat and I have an opponent airline that is not only spamming routes, but also undermining prices constantly. And I'm not talking about 20$ less, but on a default 1000$ economy ticket they set it to 130 or less. I thought this couldn't be economic and tried pushing them out of my hub by not going down to the same price but for them to not get any passengers (I still got 100% occupancy with a much higher price). Now I don't know HOW, but the airline just overtook me in value and just keeps buying new planes and adding new routes and I think I won't be able to stay economical at my (rather high) comfort standard. Hence I would like to learn some other ways to play AE and maybe how to better react to such threats in the future.
Greetings
nick
You are actually a more skilled player than this guy. Players like you are in very high demand. I will say though, your utilisation will give you trouble. If you are retaining load factor at much higher prices than the spamline, then you do not need to worry. See the avoiding a race to the bottom post I made earlier today. By some neat tricks, I avoided being sucked into an unprofitable race to the bottom with 2 spamlines on a route. Just persevere. I see you are getting reputation trophies. Keep it up 
.
You cannot deal with the threat from a spamline. A spamline will almost always make more money, it is exploiting every loophole in the AE system to make as much money as possible. No one likes them and running them gets a bit tiresome after a while, so basically you have the high ground on everything except the ranking 
)
)
)
