Sooooooo.
I am trying my hand at this and don't fully understand. I am trying the Phillipines, and so the play is spam routes connecting everywhere to hubs in Manila and Cebu, and any other Filipino airport to Manila and Cebu. At that point I have enough connecting pax that I can switch to just using them for profit? I tried spamming Manila to Cebu, but had to set prices low to fill seats. And when I tried a Cebu to LAX connection I got... SOME connecting pax, but not much. What am I missing? (oh and I am using Scam IFS)

The Phillipines isn’t really large enough to sustain a #1 spamline. It’s best to start in the US, China, or the EU after 2000.

This is really interesting, thanks for doing these calculations. I wonder how this could be used in conjunction with the spamlining strategy.

A helicopter spamline would be interesting, maybe I’ll try that sometime.

Welcome to AE!

I mean it could theoretically work?
But you would need THOUSANDS of helis to get anywhere near regular spamline levels.
Not to mention demand on helicopter routes would be awful. You would have to find a solid under 1000 mile route that you could profitably spam to make the other routes function.

True, it would be very difficult. I probably won’t get around to trying it for a long time.

Scam IFS.

Unfortunately, the game does not support special configurations with extra F/C passengers. This is the same reason why the A350-900ULR has lower range than the regular A350-900.

Thank you for repeating exactly what I said

Sorry

Anyway, this feature could be a good suggestion for AE4.0, if it ever releases.

AE was running slowly for me on Safari, but Firefox seems to work fine.

Make sure to start in S4E, which is the new player world where you will face less competition. Start in a secondary major airport, SLC is a good one. Create Scam IFS (all food options at max price, all amenities except headphones at max price).

Seatmaps are an interesting concept, but I find it isn’t worth the time and effort to make them.

Was thinking of going USA after some thought. Looking to start at CLT or BWI, are those good? Haven't played in a while.

CLT is very good, I’ve started several top 10 airlines from there. BWI should be good as well.

Hopefully it will be in the game by next year once it has entered service.

Competition doesn’t matter when starting early. Best options are USA and China, but you could also pick any EU country after 2000.

I've also found that iPad generally loads maps better. When I still use desktop, clearing the browser cache or trying different browsers can sometimes help.

You can’t set price to 0, it has to be at least $1.

There are as far as I know three different services used for route maps; Google, OpenStreetMap, and Great Circe Mapper; the default for airline route maps and the one used for alliance maps is Google (and it's this style that has the toggle buttons for different hubs and color terrain) while OpenStreetMap is always used for route maps on airport pages (and on airline summaries). However you can also in settings change the route map style... Between OpenStreetMap and Great Circle Mapper, with no option for the otherwise default Google style, and, from testing it just now, since changes to the settings can only be saved all at once and not individually for each setting if you touch the settings page at all you can now only use one of the other two styles with no way AFAIK to get back to the default. (Incidentally I first noticed this by checking to see what the options on the settings page did on a Taiwanese airline, and the OpenStreetMap style is also centered on the prime meridian and can't scroll infinitely, so it can't properly display the route map of any airline that crosses the Pacific). It's set per airline and not per account but unless there's something I'm missing you won't have any way of changing it back on whatever airline you have the issue with.

This is correct. Once you touch the airline settings page, you won’t be able to use the Google Maps style on that airline.

It releases much later than the 752 and is only available for a short time, so it’s just harder to acquire.

I once bought a large quantity of used 732's that had been delivered past their "end of production", and kept them long enough where I may have equipped some with winglets. If I did, I don't remember any performance difference.

No, 5-star service is never really profitable in-game or in real life.

Try clearing your cache or using a different browser.

Yes, I have achieved this a few times. The best place to try for this is the S1 world.

As far as I know, IFE loses money no matter what.

It’s a parallel universe airport.

Try pressing the save button a few times, if that doesn’t work, you’ll just have to lower the price.