So a 45 yr old DC-9 could have brand new engines meaning factory-fresh performance.

Factory fresh still being 45 years out of date...

At current the largest hinderance to the planes with less than 19Y is methinks gate costs, gate costs above 100k/month are fairly likely to turn a potentially profitable bonanza service into an unprofitable one.

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Was that really necessary.

Especially considering you posted 2 minutes prior.

Why not just simulate the two key ages; The Jet Age, and the Widebody age.

Methinks we are now entering a 'low cost' age.

Which would probably be fairly easy to simulate.

Ehh, maybe the used-market is just one plane broker? (and so instead of "Alta sells dc-9, goes to sit on the ground waiting for buyer" it's "alta sells dc-9 to broker, broker is now responsible for finding buyer")

Considering the fees we pay for a transaction, a broker seems the obvious thing.

Possibly an option might be 'pay a broker 10% of value and get cash now, or pay a broker 0% and only get cash when a buyer buys'

Hawaiian/hendrex's posts in this thread hurt me.

Anyway, it seem perfectly logical to be able to see IFE/IFS configurations, they're hardly private knowledge.

If I wanted to find out how much it would cost to buy a snack on a competitor, I need only google it, telephone the airline or send an employee for a trip on it.

One does not simply learn the exact details such as the quality of TV sets.

Why?

Possssssssibly we should, for AE4, be aiming for a slightly different region system whereby the regions are a bit smaller and you can select multiple regions at once, as it provides the best of both worlds as far as too big/too small would be.

(London Heathrow, for example, might be considered to be in both "Europe" and "Western Europe")

In the meantime, I'd definitely like to see central america.

I think that central america is necessary, and I'd also like to see south east Asia classified under Asia and Australia/New Zealand/Pacific put in a new category, ideally Oceania.

I'd like to see south east asia and Asia combined because when I search for airports within Asia to fly to from, say, Hong Kong,  I don't get to see stuff like Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur.

But to go back to the point of this topic, central America is the thing that needs to happen most, if you ask me.

http://en.wikipedia....es_and_patterns

Wasn't that hard.

The EU is post 2000, and NZAU has some starting date.

Time based restrictions are possible, I'm not sure if expiry is.

I agree.

However countries that appeared on SAA's historic route network should be excluded.

To copypaste from another thread (as it's also relevant here)

"I would not mind a hard plane limit in a selected  number of worlds, however I believe doing it as a plane limit would be stupid as it results in airlines simply maximising efficiency in order to effectively evade the limit.

If we limited the number of seats that can be offered per day, we would likely see the limit as being more effective.

I think this is worth trying, simply to see results."

basically the 'seats' method solves the VLA problem.

While true that one can achieve an objective in a sandbox game, there is nothing to measure one's overall win. Therefore, one cannot 'win' a sandbox game, however it is possible to do 'well'.

Though interestingly, if one defines winning a non sandbox game as 'achieving a certain preset goal and being presented with a you win' message, this could be considered fairly easy. If one were to do as well in sandbox game, one still would not have won.

This brings into the question of whether one can even 'win' any game overall, but merely complete multiple pre-set objectives within it.

Possibly preferential would be a grey area on the graph indicating 'blocked seats'

Sounds like a great idea