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Game Strategy / Strategy for starting off

« on: July 09, 2008, 05:13:37 pm »

wow some really low profits what plane are you using for these routes maybe try 1 million down airports that are 500nm range from your hub i did something like that out of Warsaw (8-9 mil) Worked quite well expand fast to flying to larger airport e.g Heathrow that are very profitable but it gives me the **** maintaining my routes everyday because of competition.

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General Chat / Questions about hubs and focus cities.

« on: July 09, 2008, 07:54:08 am »

First You have to rent 4 Gates at the airport you want to create a new base.... then click create base (BE WARNED there is a 60X Gate Fee) To recreate a base. IF you DO NOT pay this fee you can not fly out of the airport

And yes Colombo is your starting base so that is already a base dont need to do anything to it.

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General Chat / Dream Job

« on: July 09, 2008, 07:35:25 am »

When im in college i plan to be a Baggage Handler/ Flight Attendant (2 Bad for the Gay stereotype on Male Flight Attendants).
and then go on to just playing around in the cockpit
Co-pilot will do for me ... doesn't have to be anything big just as long as it gets off the ground

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General Chat / Registration at its Lowest

« on: July 09, 2008, 07:28:30 am »

Yer im only a small airline and i spend heaps of time maintaining close to 100% LF to keep my DOP up im in 2 worlds currently when a new one starts im starting some where REally small like africa or South America because the amount of time i spend updating my routes are crazy.

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General Chat / Is Building a Terminal Really Worth It ???

« on: July 09, 2008, 07:23:30 am »

My calculations are:

5 Gates (renting)
150,00 a gate

750,000 A month



5 Gate Terminal

19,884,750 Building Cost
112,500 A Gate

562,500 Monthly Gate Fee

I have 3 Hubs so:

59,654,250 Building Cost
112,500 A Gate
1,687,500 Monthly Gate Fee

Saving Of:

187,500 Per 5 Gates (Per Month)
562,500 Per 15 Gates (Per Month)

Sooooooo.....
The Total time taken for a terminal to really pay back its worth and start saving you over is.....

106 AM months

But.... this doesnt mean that terminals are useless because why not spend that 60 million that you have lying around to overall saving you money in the long run and increasing your MOP     .

Hope this helps if you need me to do some calculations on another number of gates just say and ill be happy 2  

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General Chat / Terminals

« on: July 09, 2008, 07:11:54 am »

ive decided to build a terminal at all four of my hubs ... because face it they only cost 18-22 mill and i make that in 3 AM days, i have way to much money to spend lol with only a DOP of 6-7 million depending on LF. Lets see if it pays off and start having some savings i could do some calculations e.g how much i save a month. but really cant be bothered now.. i might post numbers up later

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Game Strategy / Purchasing an aircraft

« on: July 06, 2008, 03:39:36 pm »

Game Days It will be there in Exactly 24 hours . You Will have your plane tommorow same time you ordered it

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Game Data / airport in florida

« on: July 06, 2008, 08:32:05 am »

Should go into Game Data        

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General Chat / This is too funny

« on: July 05, 2008, 10:05:51 am »

phew....  :wink:  i thought i had gone crazy...  :wink:

and yer totally agree

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General Chat / This is too funny

« on: July 05, 2008, 08:29:37 am »

Then I'm sure that making 25K with 90% is a whole lot nicer than 1000K with 100%. Wink Been there on both sides.

confused were you using sarcasim 2 hard to tell with text lol

But making 1000k with a 100 % load factor is better then 25k with 90% lol

 :?:  :?:  :?:  :wink:

The point is to get as high as profit possible from each route ive found this comes inbetween  95%-100% loadfactor

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General Chat / This is too funny

« on: July 05, 2008, 08:08:09 am »

i find that if you have a route with a plane with just enough seats to squeeze all the profit from that route going with the "Trying To get close to 100% loadfactor" works really well ive got a load fact of 99.75 % and im doing great. none of my routes have below 90 % because that just minimizes your profits. Ive also figured out that if competition changes on a certain route and load factor drops down 20-30 % that its sometimes better to keep the fare the same because if you adjust it your profit goes down .... that happened to anyone else ??

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General Chat / Worlds

« on: July 03, 2008, 10:50:24 am »

ahhhhhhhh HURRY And join W9 all so we get a new world  :shock:  :shock:    

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General Chat / Airline VAlue

« on: July 03, 2008, 08:50:25 am »

well yes of course lol you have to spend that money to get the aircraft... but that aircraft has oppertunity's to make you more money while your airline cash no matter how'll big it is doesnt make you any DOP..  :wink:

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General Chat / Worlds

« on: July 03, 2008, 08:48:47 am »

ah ha ... world 7 has one year left so i new world will be made soon ??

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General Chat / Airline VAlue

« on: July 02, 2008, 04:45:39 pm »

new planes give your Value a lift by there book price eg.

Value = 100,000,000
Jet=30 mil book price

New value =130,000,000