That's another question I had. 177 seats on 1000+ seat market may be a fair share. Is it necessary to take the whole demand?

I'm not seeing the issue.  If 177 seats at 419 a seat doesn't generate enough revenue to cover the cost, you might be flying too expensive seats.  

Oh, maybe I had the players wrong. Yes, that was a question I had. If a player can just park a few seats and keep the price down.

I think you did all that can be done to ban it. Surely, lowering prices is is an aspect of competition that can't be regulated. Venting your frustration in the use of such strategy may make the use of it unfashionable but I doubt it.   

Ah, the company store. 

Every time before my leases are due my cash goes to something to bring me to a negative balance. I haven't been able to account for these other fees. I sign out with 3,000,000 and sign back in a few game days later and have 300,000 and two default warnings.

It's a little annoying when a competing airline lowers his price even when he has 100% load factor for some reason. He can't carry more so why lower the price?  Does that keep some pax from using my price and my seat? Does offering a lower price for a non-existent seat affect the overall?

Oh, yeah. That's the process, I guess. I understand the AI is programmed to prevent players from making the rankings.

Did it go bust because you kept lowering price on non-existent seats? You wil make no extra revenue just lowering prices but not having seats.

Hello everyone,

 

I just started to play, It's not my first (airline game) but I still have limited experience.

 

I was wondering if the best starting plan was to borrow as much as possible and spam the world with all the planes you can buy ?

 

It seems that it's what everybody is doing, so it must be the best strategy isn't it ?

 

Thanks for your advice

I'm not sure borrowing as much as possible is a good idea. My airline seems to lose all it's cash plus a little right before the bonds are due for payment. My cash is quickly rebuilt after the default notice but whatever it is it all and more disappears right before the payment.

My tip(s) is(are)..

When opening a route, only fill half the demand and double your ticket prices. I'm not sure when you have to lower the price when you add more flights but you should get double revenue on the route for a time. Of course, a route making double a normal route may attract competition.

 Use the airport detail page to see routes under-served or overpriced. 

This is incredibly uninteresting, 

The game experience for others is,unfortunately, limited.

Issuing a bond is getting money from investors. I guess, though,  a pool of investors with no say in your operation.

This seems a good idea for a financial simulation but an added dimension to airline simulation I don't think adds to playability. 

Issuing a bond is getting money from investors. I guess, though,  a pool of investors with no say in your operation.

This seems a good idea for a financial simulation but an added dimension to airline simulation I don't think adds to playability. 

On the aircraft details page there is a sell button. There is a buyer under that button. 

I don't understand how an airline with a poorer route reputation gets a higher percentage of pax for the same price simply by adding flights to a serviced route. I'm not sure if aircraft types are considered by the pax, as I know certain ones are preferred by some but most have no preference until rhey hear of major problems. 

It is a supply and demand calculation. If more demand than supply, the higher price works. Of course, since a flight cost is set, filling a flight is the most profit. spending less flights on a higher price would be the most profitable. I think keeping the supply an amount less than demand, eliminating the cost to supply, gives a higher profit margin but idle aircraft are an expense, too.

I often come across routes that are priced at twice the default and have to believe that increases profit.

I think what I'm asking is if another airline decides to over supply the route do they bring their own passenger revenue, too or are they just expecting to depart with these seats empty until the market decides they are the better airline and pax shift from the first to the second?  Or does the first airline just have a chance at a bigger pie brought by the second?

I'm wondering, too, if someone can explain what it takes to be able to fill a plane with pricing double the default on uncontested routes. This seems an advantage. Certainly if revenue is where it all comes from having twice the revenue as the competition has to be. I've tried doubling the suggested price but usually only fill 1/4 capacity. with a positive DOP still but too empty.

As an example I'm not really understanding, I am in a market with Demand of 1064. There is one competitor. I have 143 seats filled at the average price. Market share shows competitor has 1327 of his 4207 seats filled. Since his load is already more then the demand I probably can't take advantage of my 100% load and add a flight but I'm not sure if I'd be trying for a share of the 1064 or not.  

Thanks. I don't understand I guess. That sounds like the demand I see listed means that many pax would fly my airline if I had seats available but for another airline some may not feel the same so his demand would be different. I was thinking, I guess, demand is the total number of pax that want to go from point A to Point B. Uncontested, I should be able to match seats with demand and build a reputation for getting them point A to point B. I should be able to set fares to profitable for me and satisfactory to the pax. I assume some pax only make their travel if the price is right while some have no choice but to pay the full fare. I should see the market share chart totally the demand, no?

By demand displayed you mean the blue demand bar? On an uncontested route, Matching seats to demand should be full planes with the default ticket pricing. I could supply half the demand and try to get the price up for those who just have to go but have no seat but I haven't found doubling the price  to work as consistently as other airlines I've noted.

Do you also know the mechanics of making doubled pricing work? I've noticed an airline with double pricing on every route I checked. Entering those markets I only get LF of 25% or so and don't get the advantage of gouging the fare.

I only ask for fairness sake. 

I understand picing ashould not  increase demand although I might take a trip ?I wouldn't have it the price is $5. That would leave enough for a cocktail at the destination bar.

I would like to encourage competition on routes since, IRL, at most airports you will see takeoffs by a variety of companies.

I'm not sure how the passenger demand is accounted for. It seems in market share there are many more flyers than the demand would indicate. For example demand might be 2828 but airline A is enplaning 2114 and airline B is enplaning 2039. Traffic is 4153 enplaned on a demand of 2828. Is this extra demand created by Airline B and his alliance?

I ask because it seems to me 2828 daily demand is enough to support at least 2 airlines but it's not clear which demand I should try to split. if I have 1414 seats as a reputable airline I should be covering my share of the demand. Is the actual demand the sum total of pax carried or are all the pax above demand connecting pax and always there for the airline in an alliance?