Regional-CS300
Mainline and Medium Haul-CS300
Long haul-787 series

Trunk routes-B777-300ER

Doned

I’d be careful with Racist Flot.

Anyway, my favourite is probably Lufthansa or Singapore Airlines. Lufthansa is by far the best European airline now and Singapore Airlines is just gold. Albeit a sexist airline.

I have never flown with either of them. The only main aircraft manufacturer I haven’t flown on is Embraer.

I have been playing AEn for the past few months in my scarce spare time. It is a challenging game to master compared o AE. Competition dynamics are much more realistic and difficult to manage. Route scheduling is an absolute nightmare to spend time on. For perspective, scheduling some 777s to fly a 15 hour flight to the us from Muscat took me nearly an hour. Because specific timings of routes and days need to be set up. By comparison, I used to set up routes in AE in well under a minute. It’s a massive difference.

It’s high but not that unrealistic. Large aircraft tend to be cash cows for cash strapped small airports.

And yes, this is my first post here in almost 6 months I think.

3/10

 

you-seem-like-a-legit-nice-guy-but-posting-that-song-is-bringing-your-rating-down

banned cus you are straying away from earth in your orbit

The problem with the A380 is the fact that if you use a more dense config it becomes really hard to provide decent frequency. And even if you do get enough demand to get good frequency, with demand comes competition, so you earn little per seat. I have 3 configs on my A380 currently, one 70 C 600Y config for domestic operations and routes, and two international configs, 8F 42C 350/416Y. It's a good thing you can only receive 1 A380 every 4 weeks otherwise I'd have too many for my own good.

that's the thing

 

To run an a380, you need at least 2 of these 3 things

High demand low competition airports with long runways 

High demand unnoticed routes

A high demand country of operation at both ends of the route (for connections mainly as backup)

 

If you have a high demand low competition airport and high demand unnoticed routes, you'll make a lot of money. If you don't have high demand unnoticed routes, you'll still make a good amount. If you have only one or none of the 3, you will likely get murdured. Having all 3 will be one of the rarest things and you should jump on it at the earliest opportunity

You think the A380 is too big to be profitable?

no. But it can be challenging to find routes for it to run at decent frequencies sometimes. And when you do, they can be heavily contested

I would say have an option to do this. You can do the current system, or you can do the one you suggested.

Maybe, like a tab on the routes page?

obviously. 

assuming that people will legitimately pay to use the forums

I literally just said this wont happen for good reason. A page of aviation related adverts could bring in serious dough though

This is quite clearly a troll suggestion. The centre of the AE community or whatever remains of it is the forum. Making it paid will tear it to pieces. Also, discord will get HUGE business from AE if paid forums become a thing. Aviation related advertising. Sure, i'd be up for some aviation christmas gifts to myself. I need to treat myself every now and then . And the game will make significant money from it.

Iberia is not a fair example. Also, that plane is going to have days off on maintenance to cover its long shifts. 

 

I think 125 should be the ABSOLUTE maximum cap if we will bring it down. But for long haul that is still low. 140 is actually not that high when you realise how much Norwegian 787s fly. They are a rare case but not unrealistic. That is why I think there is no need to change the hour caps. Although that is 18+gate timings. This game actually makes no sense. ALEN or AEn has a very good model on route scheduling. It is quite tough with route scheduling but it keeps most airlines in order and prevents them from absolutely hammering their aircraft. Especially since AEn passengers don't like flying at redeye hours

He's the old dev for CyberAirlines, and for some reason he still thinks that routes being flown in real time is a good idea.

I love it. Slows the game down and allows one to actually think as they do their operations. It is brilliant. Especially compared to the manic pace of some AE gameworlds which often go through years within a week.

 

This is a 3D problem.

 

Because you have the following dimensions for select a best profitable plane:

• PAX
• Range
• ERA

 

yes.  Very very true

 

12 months ago, LJ asked me how many routes I had found with demand for 2 daily A380s. From major tier 1 and 2 global cities, any route to another major capital in a major country will provide enough. LGW-JFK, LGW-MAD, LGW-DXB. Just to name 3. I would fly A380s to all aside from madrid because madrid is WAY TOO short for an a380 to justify it. I'd just flood the frequencies instead

What waste. This could be great revenue potential

Yh it is. Just that the devs have pretty much given up. No more updates or features can be expected.

DONT NECRO THREADS FFS

Fair enough. This member may well be new to forums in general. I know how frustrating necro-ing of threads can be. But I was genuinely unaware that this was even suggested. Needless to say, necro should be avoided. This is an old ass post. 

I'll take the 747 with an MD80 side. I'd like the table in the far corner from the door (2 I think)

banned because that makes as much sense as United monopolising air travel being good for people

He meant in terms of the flight schedules. But AlEn doesn't have, say, IFS and IFE

that is a planned feature. And when added, it is expected to be significantly better than what AE has currently. And feature requests actually get considered by the developer (yes, ONE DEVELOPER)

Much needed, but perhaps there could be better monitoring of PM's. I'm getting spammed by banned members. I don't know whether to take it and leave it, take it as a victory hymn, or chirp back?

screenshot a few of their worst messages and send them off.

Exactly. The A350 is more of a long-range aircraft while the 787 more of a medium to long- haul aircraft.

It is an ultra-long range aircraft as well. Qantas has started direct flights to Perth from london using 787 aircraft!

stop self promoting

He's not self promoting as he isn't even the game developer. But face it, ALEN is objectively better. It is in active player influenced development, there is a very high degree of transparency in what development is occuring, and the general community attitude is far far better on the forums. A way of saying it hasn't been overrun by immature (not necessarily young) people with nothing better to do than troll on some forums

I've used it before,  not as good. Sorry

You're playing on it lmao

i believe its in the ballpark of 1F=10Y 6C=10Y

F takes a lot less than that. It's about 

F=3Y

C=6Y

Y=Y

Norwegian.

say goodbye to cheap flights to New York. I want to say Air Koryo

£7.49, London Gatwick to Jersey is the cheapest I have found. It was on Easyjet though.