72M DOP, 50 idle aircraft with 117 on order, and hubs in Oakland, San Jose, Burbank-Hollywood, Santa Ana, Indianapolis, and LaGuardia. It's essentially a sandbox as of right now, and I need help setting up routes when I'm away.

Yeah, this could be a big one.

America, there are some very obscure airports that only very few people operate to, such as

-LaGuardia (takes some knowledge of geography and a rather early start)

-Burbank (its also LA, ya know?)

-Chicago Midway

-Charlotte (sometimes)

-Tampa

-Clearwater

-Spokane

-San Juan, Oakland, and San Diego (sometimes)

-Sacramento 

-San Antonio

-Indianapolis

-Greensboro/Durham

-Nashville

-Memphis

-Richmond

-Louisville/Cincinnati/Columbus/Cleveland (all in a nice straight line)

-Des Moines

-Kansas City

-St. Louis 

Just pull out google maps and do a quick scan.

ha ha you ran out of

Oh no I'm running out of 

Banned for the worst KSP joke that I have ever heard, so bad that I am willing to kill myself by meeting "The Emperor" in person and complimenting him on the way that he breaks plays this game.

You're welcome person below me. I gave you enough material to work with.

 

1. No s***.

2. No s***.

3. No s***.

 

You are trying to justify your arguments about real-life aviation vs a free online game. Did you know how many hours and money someone needs to spend to create a free online game to fit your demand?

 

Also, you are trying to force people to play realistically even though the game doesn't have any rules about what kind of airlines you could run. After all, it's not cheating, otherwise, the Moderators would have banned the practice or the players who've done it

 

They said that they had to upgrade their servers to handle the spamlines.

The game owners are having to spend IRL money so a handful of exploiters can tell everyone else that they are slaves.

Does this sound like its against a rule? Maybe more than one?

Physical traffic restrictions at airports

The average airliner uses roughly 1 minute for its takeoff roll. Add another 9 minutes for wake turbulence to disperse, and add on another 5 minutes due to other factors (weather, someone spilling the coffee all over ATC, late passengers, etc) and we get 672 departures/week. However, landings take much longer, so we can use the rather conservative rate of 1 arrival/departure every 15 minutes, which means the maximum amount of flights that a single airline can operate to an airport with 1 runway per week would be 336. 

Why have independent restrictions for all airlines?

http://www.airline-e.../8161-atnt71eb/

Any more questions needed?

Passenger movement at connecting airports should also be limited, unless we are willing to accept that thousands (or millions) of passengers can disembark an aircraft, run through the terminal, which is many times past full capacity, due to the spam-like nature of some airlines, and board their connecting flight, without completely destroying the airport in a massive stampede that never ceases due to the constant flights.

Of course, 336 flight cycles/week is more than enough for most airlines, it would at least somewhat restrict the most extreme spamlines from earning a boatload of money from 30 mile hops. This is where the next set of restrictions would come in:

Maintenance rates grow exponentially with use

Let's all face it: an aircraft that flies for 19 hours in a 20 hour day would break down incredibly quickly. The maintenance costs of an aircraft should be based both on aircraft age but also aircraft usage. An airline that operates planes for 10 hours a day would be rewarded with lower maintenance costs than the airline that runs its planes for 19.98 hours a day.

The number of mechanics an airline has should also affect maintenance costs, but this should be generally conservative except for 2 cases:

-Aircraft are running over 18 hours a day 

-Mechanic reserves are under 10%

Simply put, a mechanic cannot service hundreds of aircraft a day. And yes I know that mechanic numbers rise as your airline gets larger, but we have to be somewhat realistic here.

Check our trophies. We have won multiple rounds in limited-airline worlds. 

 

We have also won multiple rounds prior to adopting ISAD strategy, relying on the green pax strategy dubbed "realistic" here. 

We find the "realistic" strategy more boring and repetitive than the ISAD strategy. Winning basically involves avoiding megaroutes and concentrating initially on shorter routes with higher price-per-mile-flown. It was as easy to win with that strategy as with my current ISAD strategy. 

Most of us players here play by mostly realistic ways. You and your "empire" represent the "barbaric scum" that is trying to overthrow the entire community into chaos. If you find this game boring to play without exploits, please find another game to play. I doubt that you would be anything if airports have hard traffic limits restricting aircraft movements anyway.

I looked much better before they knocked the good parts off my statue. 

Statues can't run empires. You lied to us.

Why in god's name does my profile have over 20K views? Am I being botted or something?

I am also somewhat interested, but I am running an airline in the same world as you and I'm running to very similar airports.

oh, and its not infinite money

I think this self-proclaimed emperor is actually a trumpet player.

et tu?

Its got

-faster days

-much higher starting loan

-newer players (like me)

-shorter world time

-planes get flooded to the used aircraft market

Last one out, get the lights.

It appears that the 737-900 was certified to carry the same amount of passengers as the 737-900. I recommend just waiting until the -900ER comes out or go airbus.

I just want to know why your F-18 has solid rocket boosters on a second stage.

7-10 minute days, 1960-2030? Starting cash $35 million, and new aircraft are on the used aircraft market 8-24 months after first production?

I use a free 5-star IFE that loses money for my airline with a scam IFS that earns money for my airline, and the IFS earns more than the IFE does but still maintains a relatively high IFS reputation.

1 economy seat, A380, 239 feet of legroom! Huzzah!

I stop operating my planes when they have 20 or less hours remaining and the on-time performance is about halfway.

Lower fuel flow also gives you more range 9 times out of 10, depends on if you are going to use the plane for shorter routes or longer routes.

Mine is clearly the Boeing 757-200/-300, with a generous max range and capacity while still being small enough to operate to smaller airports, and being cheaper than widebodies and some narrowbodies. Nothing really comes close to replacing it until the 737-900ER or the A321NEO, both of which lack the capacity of the 757.

Just like what the title says.

Yeah, sorry for bad wording. 3% profit margin sounds good for late-game, but the profit margin slowly fall once you start getting into late-game? I'm just starting out, and my monthly profit margin is at 31.9% right now, which kind of freaks me out.