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.

That actually would be pretty helpful too! I'm practically ready to go in R0 for when the 707-120 becomes available. Even though it's currently 1955 in R0, and the 707-120 doesn't come out for another 3 years, I'm all set to go on preordering that jet to replace my smaller and slower Starliners flying to Europe and South America.

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.

Not sure what you all think about the 1970s, but the 1970s in the airline industry just fascinates me, as there is a surge of new wide-body airliners to carry more passengers to rake in more money for the airline, along with a surge of new technology, such as the turbo-fan jet engines, fly-by-wire, and so on. But what matters the most for this forum is the big first four wide-body airliners, being the early 747 models, (747-100 & -200B,) the familiar DC-10, the whisperliner L-1011 Tristar, and the first wide-body twin-engine jet the Airbus A300 (A300B2 & A300B4.)

So, with it being 1969 in World R0, as well as the 1970s in a few other worlds currently in Airline Empires, I want to hear from the community on which first generation wide-body aircraft is your favorite and why? It doesn't need to be restricted to just picking one, and if you want to give your opinion on all four, then go on ahead! 

For me, I'm split down the middle between with the Lockheed L-1011 Tristar and the Airbus A300. Reason why I like the Tristar is not only it's a beautiful tri-jet, but is a really quiet plane (never seen one IRL,) and the air intake for the third engine in the tail is different, and a lot cleaner in how it works compared to the DC-10, where it's just a straight line through the bottom of the vertical stabilizer to the actual engine.

And then for the A300, it's not the first aircraft with fly-by-wire since Concorde has beaten to that, but it was also the first wide-body twin-engine jet, which you see those kinds of planes everywhere today, and is also what started the European manufacturer we all know and love today, Airbus.

Now, in terms of operating these two particular aircraft families on Airline Empires, I really do enjoy flying the Lockheed Tristars, as they tend to be more fuel efficient, and make a better profit for me. Then again, I could be wrong there since I never flew the DC-10 yet here on Airline Empires, but will in R0 when it becomes available for pre-orders. Either way, if the Tristar is ever available for purchase in any worlds that I'm in, you better believe I'm going to fly it! I'm just straight up hooked on flying that plane from how low the overall operating expenses are. 

With the A300, I see the A300 as the best choice for a high capacity domestic airliner for doing flights within the continent I have my airline based in. It's a great aircraft if you want to lower your slot and gate usage at airports, and like I said with the Tristar, I love how low the expenses and fuel burn is with the aircraft.

I have nothing against the classic 747s or the DC-10s, but I thought I would give them credit for how popular the two are. I do like the classic 747s, as there's nothing that can beat the iconic short hump that started it all. And for the DC-10s, I pretty much call them the "Golden Age" jet, since pretty much everyone use to fly them in real life. Same goes for the 747 as well.

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?!"

Yep, true spamline!

I literally got nothing to say but, HOLY BALLS, is his fleet huge, and it looks like he's flying every plane in history. D8

It's always open! I'll privately message you the password.

To answer your question, Tesla, unfortunately so.

You see, we have some guidelines that we check new applicants have for the airline they're trying to enter into our alliance, and I'm sorry, but you can't join. HOWEVER, we're still in the reviewing process with the rest of the admin team at SkyWorld. But since you don't have a hub established yet, it's highly unlikely you'll be able to get a spot at SkyWorld. Plus with the mediocre reputation you have currently, it isn't going to fly.

I give you points though for the high employee morale, as nobody has shown us that yet! So well done!

I think you do got something great going on with your airline, and I do wish you the best of luck with South Indian Airlines.

Like I said, you may or may not have a chance at SkyWorld, as the rest of the admin team is still reviewing your application.

Got some good news for you!

After some negotiations with the admin team at SkyWorld, we have came to an agreement to revoke the one hub guideline for your airline. Welcome to SkyWorld, Tesla! 

I don't know, but I want my post to be first.

 

Name: Zipp

Airline: http://ae31.airline-...e3r2&player=209

Alliances: DWA, Avant, Envoy

 

Love me

Dude, I love your airline's livery! Looks awesome! 

The same (100%). You should all recieve 1st place trophies. I think.

I can back this up, because I did get that back in S3-A, first place in terms of airline reputation, even though that there were 4 or 5 others that had a full 100% reputation like how I did.

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!

Hello Man Of Aviation!

Right now we have another application being processed right now by the admins at SkyWorld, but you're next on the list!

In the mean time, I'll be more than happy to answer your questions!

To me from what I experience, I say that it would be best to save a three-class configuration, basically adding first class to an aircraft's seating configuration, I say the best time to add first class is when you start receiving aircraft built to carry more than 200 passengers in its standard configuration. Such good examples would be the Airbus A321, or the Boeing 757-300, To me, I say that all of the British Aviation RJs are too small for first class. The RJ100, along with all of the other British Aviation RJs, are built for primarily regional or short-range routes, where you'll probably not see so many First Class demand. From speaking from experience, having business class seats on regional aircraft, I highly approve, as a lot of other airlines are trying to accommodate for business class passengers on their regional aircraft.

And as for your question about IFE, I say that the Avro RJ100 is not too small for IFE. However, for the Saab 340A, I think that aircraft is too small. For me, the smallest aircraft I fly in my fleet is the ATR 72, which I fly all of the different series, and I even also use my IFE on the ATR 72 as well, since the aircraft carries more than 50 passengers, and has a 500+ mile range. Plus too when you look at real life aviation, there are some ATR 72 aircraft already out there flying with IFE installed on them too. I don't know which airlines though, but I can reassure you that it's already being done. Basically, if I was in your shoes Man Of Aviation, I would install IFE only onto aircraft that has a maximum operating range of over 500 miles.

Well I hope my answers are able to help you out in some way! Feel free to reply back to me or privately message me if you have any more questions to ask, and we'll be getting around to reviewing over your application with the rest of the SkyWorld admin team shortly!

Well Man Of Aviation, I got word back from the admin team at SkyWorld, that we are VERY impressed with what your airlines has to offer, so welcome to SkyWorld! 

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.

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, 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.

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!

The DOP is basically the amount of money you make per game day in a specific world.

I was wondering the same too. I can understand the days going up to 28, since there's usually 28 days in February, as long as it isn't a leap year. But having each month have 24 days? Why?

Yea... Spam airlines are going to be around no matter what. Same goes for internet trolls. They're always going to be around no matter what.

Well, if you're looking for another good large aircraft for your fleet, I suggest the L-1011 Tristars from Lockheed. Even though some DC-10 models have an advantage in range, and yet most L-1011 models fly over 5,000 miles, the L-1011 is a better aircraft to fly, since its monthly lease is cheaper, and the fuel flow is also lower than the DC-10, making it a cheaper aircraft to operate. I've flone the Tristar before on AE, and I was thrilled with how good of an aircraft it is! Flew both the L-1011-250 and -500, and I was not disappointed in what the aircraft were capable of!

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.

Hello PolarisWings!

Thank you for submitting your application to the SkyWorld Alliance. Right now it's being processed by our team of admins, and once it gets enough approvals, we will accept you into the SkyWorld Alliance as an honorary regular member!

I hate to say this, but I'm not running SkyWorld in R4. I don't even know if PilotTom is back in that world or Hcarde1. However, we will be able to accept you as a member no matter which world you are part of the alliance in!

We will get back to you with the good news in about a week or less if you are in or not, so please be patient!

Thank you, & stay awesome!

~Nicholai G.

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.