Yes, it does!

Like for the A320-100 or -200 for example, their maximum seating capacity on here is 189 seats. When you do look at the airlines in real life flying A320s, you don't see any airlines flying A320s with 189 seats, because you'll literally be packed like sardines onto the plane, since there's no legroom. Typically, most airlines with the A320 in real life would settle for anything between 140 seats to 160, just to be sure that they get the configuration that the airline believes is right for getting the most out of that plane, and still have passengers feeling comfortable with the legroom.

Sure, my airline that I play as on here is "different" than others, but I still either come up with my own configurations, or use real seat configurations that are up on the web, for when it comes to doing the cabin configuration with the airliners on here.

As much as I would love to help right now, Andrew, I can't, since I'm a new player myself. Maybe in the future when I do get better at this game, we'll see if I can give a helping hand. For now, I'm at least trying to become one of the top 25 airlines in World S3-A.

Well, it takes some time for a new player to get the hang of how Airline Empires work. I'm still not even a full month into playing the game, and I already got myself familiarized on most of the game. However, I believe I can answer some of your questions.

1. Well, keep in mind that Airline Empires is a more realistic airline tycoon game, and so far is the most realistic one I've played to date, so when you're managing your routes or setting up a brand new one, it doesn't tell you that, oh, this is First Class, Business, and so on. Instead, the game uses a system that some airlines would in real life. F being First Class, C being Business Class, and Y being Economy. And as for how ticket prices work, I've never seen altering the business class tickets having an affect on economy. Basically, business class needs to cost more than economy class. Otherwise passengers want to pay the cheaper price for more luxury, compared to the more expensive price for less luxury. You basically got to make sure the ticket prices are fair for a certain class people. You can tell if you have a good ticket price by changing them, then saving them to see what the new price's impact is like on the route in terms of load factor for the route's weekly flights, and the overall daily profit from the route. I try to hit that sweet spot of having the load factor barely at 100%, or at exactly 100%, but yet trying to get the most amount of money off of that specific route from one certain class of passengers.

2. Well, let me go on ahead and explain how a route's frequency works. It basically means the number of weekly flights to that destination, and how convenient it is to passengers if they want to travel on that specific route. For myself, If I'm operating on a route with no competition what-so-ever, such as Pittsburgh International Airport to Syracuse Hancock, I try to set up a good amount of weekly flights that would fill up the market in terms of passenger demand. Of course, I prefer putting in not too little flights, which means less profit for your airline; And not too many flights that have some leaving not full. Once again, like the ticket prices, there's a sweet spot too for the number of weekly flights.

As for a route's reputation, that all depends on what you have available in terms of both In-Flight Entertainment, and In-Flight Services. In-Flight Entertainment can vary on how you want to entertain your passengers on board, to help a long flight feel a lot shorter, which could be from the cabin movie projectors you'd find at the start of 1961 in the game, to some IFE systems you see today like Audio On-Demand, Video On-Demand, flight tracker, and Live TV, just to name a few. And then there's the In-Flight Services, In-Flight Services is key for helping your passengers feel more comfortable during their flight, such as in terms of catering (food) and some accessories that you would find on the ground, and that a lot of airlines in real life offers. These accessories can be pillows and blankets, newspapers, and comfort kits, just to name a few.

If you can get a good balance of both In-Flight Entertainment installed on your aircraft in your fleet, and a good amount of In-Flight Services for your passengers, then it'll boost up your routes reputation a lot, which would mean more passengers flying on your airline!

3. Well, like what I said earlier, it's all done by weekly flights when you set up new flights. Even though the game shows its income as daily profit, flights are usually managed by how many you do on a specific flight per week. A good example would be the real life airline, JetBlue Airways. For them, they do flights from Orlando International to Syracuse Hancock 7 to 10 times a week, because that route doesn't have as much demand as Orlando International to New York's JFK, which that one has 35+ weekly flights. Like what I said earlier, there's a sweet spot for your weekly flights on your routes to make the most out of them. So, there's no need to do these huge mathematical ratios to make things even for all of your aircraft in your fleet. Just use the hours that your aircraft has available on which routes you want to fly them on, and you're all good! As long as you're getting the most use out of your aircraft, and it's still making a good profit for your airline, then you're doing the right thing with your fleet and route.

4. As for on-time performance, I'm not entirely sure on how that works.

5 & 6. Good question! I really never picked that up yet. Maybe someone from the admin or development team would pick it up and fix it in the next time A.E. needs maintenance.

Well this may seem like a lot of information for you, Benem, but I hope that I did help you out in some way on getting a better understanding of Airline Empires. I wish you luck on keeping your airline up in the air!

What about the Airbus A340-200 or -300 model? Both come out in 1993, with their maximum payload range being between 8,000 to 8,300 miles.

I find it ridiculous too. Like, for World S3-A (which is almost over BTW,) I've seen so many airlines like Air Luxor, Continental Airlines, and JinAir having a rapid growth, buying everything on the market at an incredibly fast rate. It's like, "How the heck are you guys still getting a profit, when all of your money's being blown on ordering more planes at an out of control speed?"

But back on topic, I'm somewhat seeing the same too in World R1 and R5, and yet I'm still growing at a controlled pace, with about 37 DC-7s and I'm at Rank 33. Same can be said in R5 being at Rank 37 with 23 jetliners. I think it's stupid on how others spam the market, ordering planes at an uncontrolled rate. There would be no way I could keep up if I had 2000+ planes being delivered all at once.

Hello everyone in the Airline Empires community!

I know I have started a year and a half late in World R6, but at least I'm getting the airline up onto its feet. Usually within the first year of operation in a new world, I would be sent an invite from a random alliance, which unfortunately, I haven't been yet. So currently, my tiny little airline is vulnerable and incapable of battling 299 other airlines in R6. I am making this forum to make myself stand out a bit, and hopefully get some attention by other players that are running an alliance in World R6, seeing if anyone would help bring a late starting airline into their alliance.

For those wondering about the state of my airline in R6, Paw Airways is still a small airline of 10 ATR 72-500, and 8 Bombardier Q400s with 7 more on the way. The airline's currently based in Pittsburgh, PA, and is still its only hub. The airline is currently making approximately $1,500,000 per day, with a valuation of $44,155,857. This will soon be increased as I am buying more aircraft out of their leases with the money saved in the airline's bank account. Eventually, I'm hoping I'll be able to invest into replacing my fleet of turboprops with new A321-200 jetliners for more domestic flights throughout the continent, and eventually invest into the Airbus A340 for international flights out of Pittsburgh, to other continents of the world.

Not all of my activities will be within the city of Pittsburgh, as I will be eventually expand to other cities through out the United States, but so far I'm undecided on what the next hub is, as I'm still improving current operations in Pittsburgh.

Thank you all for reading!

~Nicholai G.

Thank you very much for the invite, Dartonix. However, I want to clear something that I forgot to place in my original post. Paw Airways is not a low cost airline. In my eyes, I really don't like the low cost airline model for personal reasons, as I do travel on airlines every year here in the United States. I try to avoid the low cost airlines as I do pay attention to one's amount to detail, and the only airlines I do fly on are ones with a positive reputation by the passengers. I'm still learning the way how this game works, but my theory is that if you can win passengers over by the on-board entertainment and service, as well as the variety of destinations and high quality aircraft, those passengers are going to want to come back, as they had a great time on the airline; And best of all, it's affordable for those passengers to get the best in quality. I can relate to it too, since I use to be a wandering passenger, until my first flight with JetBlue Airways in 2009, and they won me over.

Long story short, I appreciate the invite to your alliance, but sadly, I decline the invite, as Paw Airways is more than a low cost airline. With everything I have on board, it's more comparable to airlines like JetBlue, Virgin America, WestJet, Porter Airlines, Air Berlin, or Etihad. Paw's an airline that I always make it go above and beyond it's A-Game on not only being profitable, but also a success with passengers, and connecting cities with the entire world.

However, I still wish you the best of luck with TravelNow in World R6!

~Nicholai G.

It's actually a simple answer, Santos.

Either A: it's due to the airport's political restriction, like how New York's LaGuardia and Washington's Reagan National only allow flights along the east coast; Or B: The airport you're wanting to send it to doesn't have a long enough runway.

I hope some of this will help clear things up better.

~Nicholai G.

For me, I'd say my airline is semi-realistic. Not just because I usually try to fly primarily Airbus aircraft and I do use real seat maps pulled off of the web, such as SeatGuru, but I like to expand, A LOT!!! I remember back in the first world I played in, S3-A, I came close to having 600 planes operating for my airline, even though all of my hubs and airports of origin were in the Continental United States.

I still say that I'm semi-realistic, since I not only start every time in a city the airline industry heavily mistreats in real life, which is the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but also too I'm a huge fan of the Airbus A340 Family, which as soon as it becomes available in whichever world I'm in, I order them like crazy! They are really good planes, after all, and I still say that they are better than their direct competition, the Boeing 777.

Well, if you don't want to use Bombardier's popular Dash-8s, you could always try using the ATR 42 and the ATR 72. I have flew them before here on Airline Empires, and they are a great alternative to the Dash-8. Sure, the ATR 72 isn't as fast as a Q400, and the best thing to compete against it in terms of range is the ATR 72-600, but in all do respect, the ATR 42 is a good plane in the 50 seat range, as it can fly farther than either the Q200 or Q300, depending on which series, and the ATR 72 is also a great plane too in the 70 to 80 seat range.

RyanAir. From what I've heard, and comparing it to all of the other airlines I know in the world, I can say RyanAir is thee worst airline on the planet. Seriously, their CEO Michael O'Leary is just insane in the brain! Just nothing but a pure lunatic! I say he deserves being thrown into a mental ward, and have his airline shut down, as there are just way too many problems with the airline, in terms of the ridiculous number of hidden fees, safety and maintenance on their planes, and the list just goes on for days.

Having a world where you can sabotage another airline sounds like a great idea. Yea, it is a concept from the Airline Tycoon games, which I could never figure out how to sabotage another airline, but it sounds perfect to me! You have no idea how badly I want to sabotage another airline, just so I can get an advantage! "Oh, you got a new 747 for your fleet? Well, I hope you have fun with your new gia- Oh crap! It blew up! Who could have done such a thing?!"

This is very odd, indeed. SXM isn't a British island. It's part French, and part Dutch, so I see that there's no possible way that Virgin Global could have built a terminal in St. Maarten. I could see KLM or Air France set up shop in St. Maarten, but a British airline setting up shop with their own terminal in St. Maarten? It just doesn't sound right at all!

To the wonderful AE Moderators and Admins, I apologies if I violate any rules in this forum.

This is a real quick RANT WARNING I want to throw out, and let all the players be aware of something going on.

I've been playing this game a lot lately since October, and I love on how realistic this online airline tycoon game is. However, since World R1 has resetted a few months ago, and after winning in S3-A in first place with airline reputation, I decided to give World R1 a shot, as it lasts through the entire jet age, from the start, to where we'll be 10 years from now. However, for the past three days now, my airline, along with others, are being starved from one other airline that is charging ticket prices so low to the point where you can't even make a profit, and basically starving airlines until they leave that route.

The airline that I am talking about is THE FLYING COW. From being in another community, (specifically the furry fandom,) we have something called "Artists Beware," where we alert others on scammers, cheap-scats, and others who are real jerks! Well, allow me to explain a little more on what Flying Cow is doing, and how this whole fiasco started between Paw Airways and Flying Cow, as I have tried contacting other airlines in that world about the problem, but always keep on getting error messages when I try to send one off.

It all first happened when I was still setting up DC-9-30s and -40s in Memphis, and soon enough, I saw that I was losing passengers on one route to California. (Can't remember what the destination was. Sorry, guys.) And what was going on was that Flying Cow was carrying double the demand for economy, and was charging $19 for the 1,500+ mile long flight. I tried my hardest to compete against it, but couldn't make a profit at that price for tickets. So, I soon found a sweet spot where I could still make a profit on that route, and have lost half of my passengers on that route. I soon contacted Flying Cow, asking on how they're still up in the air with DC-7s, TU-114s, and CL-44 Yukons. Later on, they basically 'moo'd back at me, and started directly competing against me, all over a civil conversation since I was a curious cabbit and had to ask on how they're still up in the air with their kind of pricing.

Fast-forward to now, where I'm in a state of panic and frustration. Flying Cow is starving Paw Airways so much right now, to the point where I'm even starting to struggle on finding airports to set up hubs at to continue expanding. I would say what I'm going to be doing with all of my DC-10s, 747s, and L-1011s that I have preordered, but I'm not going to, since Flying Cow would probably come back around and yank my tail off again.

My question to you all is, are any of you facing the same problems with THE FLYING COW; to where they are starving you and your friends on routes in World R1 to the point where you have to end service on that route and find where else to send your planes?

What sickens me the most is their motto. "Let's say Mooo to our competitors!" Does that moo follow by a nuclear bomb being dropped on every US based airline, who is just simply playing the game for fun?

I SAY LET'S SLAUGHTER THESE COWS, AND MAKE THEM CRIPPLE UNDER THEIR OWN BUSINESS MODEL!!!

Thank you so much everyone for reading, and please share your thoughts on this in the comments below! I really do want to hear some feedback about this whole situation with THE FLYING COW.Let's sy to our competitors

everyone says that the passenger system is based on a mathematical algoritm, so i can think about 2 things, a bug/or false in the mathematical algoritm or free marketworking. i think the last, because if you have more capacity on a route, your reputation will increase, so more people will choose that route, and because i can make a TU-114 profitable with 4 daily pax, i think that is the case. but youre right it an unsportsmanslike way of playing.

Agreed! The way how Flying Cow is competing in against 50+ other airlines based in the US in R1, is very aggressive! I simply play Airline Empires for fun, not as a sport. People who play laid back games such as Airline Empires, that plays aggressively with harsh guerrilla-like tactics are like the kind of stereotypical MLG player you would find on a popular FPS game.

It just simply takes the fun away from the game, and becomes a war to keep your airline up in the air!

That sort of player often fails to last long in a world as they get bored, just hang in there R1 has a long way to go.

Last time I came up against a player who flooded routes at silly prices I found that if you reset price to default you actually picked up more passengers and made a profit. Might not be the case now as the game is constantly being tweeked

Alright then. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for passing the tip on to an epic blue cabbit who loves big jets! 

Although I haven't had any confrontation with the flying cow I know how you feel! I hate it, the amount of airlines I have declared bankrupt because of this

It's a true pain for anyone's tail or tail-bone. Even though I declared bankruptcy on Paw Airways three times already in other worlds, I'd really would have to lose all of my hard work in R1 that got me to where I am now. Which is why I made this forum, giving everyone a heads up on a "bully airline" that's not being fair on the playground. 

I know what you mean mate, literally.

 

There's another similar airline in R1 which is starving the Brazilian market, Low Cost Americas. They're bringing their prices down to near non-profitable, especially on international routes, often charging $200 on a route whose deafult ticket price is $600-700, and spamming basically every single route with, like, 7-8 daily flights with the Yukons, DC-7s and Tu-114s. 

 

About that, Pineair is right. I'll focus on fleet modernization/upgrading (727s, 737s, 747s, DC-10s, maybe L-1011s) to combat that low cost spamming. Lets see how it ends up!

Just looked them up and THANK GOD that they're not runned by the same player that's controlling Flying Cow.

As for terms of the ticket prices, it's almost exactly the same. Flying Cow's charging $100 down to as cheap as $9 on routes that its default ticket prices are between $500 to $1000, and these are on the normal cross country flights done in the states!

And as for that decision on getting the L-1011 Tristar, GET IT!!! I've never flew the DC-10s yet, but I did do the comparison, and the L-1011 models have a lower fuel burn and a cheaper leasing price compared to most other DC-10s. I can already guarantee that you'll be very satisfied with how all of the L-1011 models perform compare to the DC-10s. 

This forum is now closed. Good day, fellow players of Airline Empire.

Well, you did say that your airline was a US based airline, right? Well, Tokyo and Hong Kong are not territories of the United States, like how Puerto Rico and Guam are. You can still fly into Tokyo and Hong Kong, but not operate on routes between the two cities without stopping through a US city or a US territory.

Well, my suggestion is to do some real world research. Find a city that is under-appreciated in the airline industry in real life. Such examples could be Birmingham in the UK, Portland, Oregon in the US, maybe Melbourne, Australia. Those are just only a few suggestions that I have, but it's all up to you on where you could set up shop on starting an airline.

Every country has an under-appreciated airport/destination. I do not know all of them, but if you set up shop at the right place and fly the right planes, your airline is going to thrive live crazy!

Well, one problem. If you look at the airline industry today, nobody sees what anything beyond 2030 could be like! Of course, there is Airbus working on the new A350 stretch, the A320neo, and now the A330neo, along with Boeing working on the 777X (which I still say that the 777-8X and 777-9X needs to get added to AE,) not a lot of makers see what they could make past 2030.

Oh my god, that's a lot of planes in your fleet! D8

For me, I think the largest fleet I had was back in S3-A, when I was just getting close to 700 planes in my fleet, even though I was based in the US. I think I had somewhere between 660 and 695 planes in my fleet back then before the world resetted.

I was on Twitter earlier, when AirlineGeeks.com and Airways News was tweeting it all out at first, as an unconfirmed crash, and my heart sank when it was confirmed a few short minutes later. What really struck me was that someone retweeted a gif of footage from the airport's security camera, capturing what happened to the jet. A bit dark though, but I could make it out that it basically fell out of the sky, and crashed into a fireball on the ground. The gif's already removed, so good luck trying to find it. I highly doubt that there are any survivors from both a possible stall, and from the intense explosion.

Godspeed to those on FZ981.

F***k!! This player (KW1) had simply and on purpose sabotage heavily my airlines!! That's not just cheating.... but very disrespectful!! 

I'm suspecting that he is one of my competitors...
I lose something like 40% or more of the airlines capacity... This is just hateful!!!!

I will not work like a crazy guy to recover... if someone wants he's welcome...
I hate cheaters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why is there cheater on every game... is it not possible just to compete honestly?? Why should someone destroy hours of "work"???? Arggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh................

Woah woah woah, slow down, man. Just start from the beginning on what he was doing? The fight over passenger capacity over certain routes is something that a large majority of players do. As for the disrespectful and sabotage part, what did he do in general?

Now, if this is the usual what I call, 'extreme competition,' then sorry man, that's just how the game goes, and that's how some other players play the game. Trust me, I've been stabbed in the back quite a few times by a certain airborne slab of beef... *cough cough* Flying Cow *cough cough* Screw them *cough*