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Game Strategy / Re: Please critique my airline?

« on: June 21, 2021, 01:22:17 am »

1. What do you mean by "firm my options before they expire?" No idea what you are talking about, sorry.

Happy flying!!

It's a part of the new orderbook function in PW3551. But it's not implemented in the pw your playing in.

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Game Strategy / Re: Props, Jets, and SSTs

« on: September 21, 2010, 03:35:14 am »

I`m in PW452 (year 1966), till 1958 I used meanly Lockheed L-1049, L-1049G, Douglas DC-7A, DC-7C & Ilyushin Il-18. After that I switched to 707 & DC-8 family. But be carefull, or the maintance fees will hound you. The old prop planes are usefull till about age 5.0, but the newer jet planes are more expensive and need replacing around 2.5yr. I now use a mixed fleet of Boeing & Douglas widebodies (+/- 180 Pax), for routes over 10Mil pax. Routes between 5 & 10 mil pax are flown with narrowbodies (Convair 990, Vickers VC-10, (707)-720 & +/- 100pax a/c on the short hauls).

In hindsight I made the mistake of flying 707-120 on 1.0 freq from airports 5mil pax and up. If I had to do it again (and I shortly will in PW1474), I would advise to use the 707 & DC-8 family A/C only on from about 3000nm and up on 0.5 freq routes from airports with minimum 10mill pax. Use the Il-18 on the shorter routes with 1.0 freq till the Tu-114 comes out. Then use the Tu-114 on 0.5 freq.

Another good guideline is to:
1 never buy aircraft over 300pax.
2 never buy aircraft over 200mill.

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Airline Branding Center / Re: Need a livery?

« on: September 17, 2010, 12:22:13 am »

Oh my deity...

Now that looks nice. Thanks for the 777. I really love the delfts blue windmill.
Looking forward to the Airbus versions.

Greets RFA

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[=] Suggestions / Out of date a/c in long private worlds and high passengers in the early days.

« on: September 14, 2010, 05:25:45 am »

Yep it`s a long title, but...

I noticed that in long running worlds it becomes increasingly harder to start as a new player.
For example. In PW452 you start with 2 Farman F.60 Goliath, but the gamedate is nov 1965.
Making it almost impossible to start up your airline as a new player.
Would it be a suggestion to change the start-up aircraft to a more modern one say every 10yr. as time moves on in a world.

Second thing I noticed is that when a world starts in the 1910`s or 1920`s an airport like Atlanta already has like 90Mil. passengers. How can that be when the Wright brothers just flew for the first time a few years before. Airlines make enormous profits with thousands of aircraft in the early years of flying, affording them to buy the most expensive aircrafts for years to come. While someone who enters later in this world is hindered by outdated start-up aircraft and unrealistic competion.

Would it not be possible to give passenger numbers by aproximation per decade. Say Atlanta in 1910 800 pas., in 1920 8.000 pas. etc, etc. I know exact passengers per year per airport are not available, but maybe a formula that gives you in 1920 a certain percentage, say 5% of the passengernumbers from now. And in 1930 7.5% for example.


Maybe this was suggested before, it`s just a thought.


Greets RFA

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Airline Branding Center / Re: Need a livery?

« on: September 13, 2010, 03:51:52 pm »

Is this better? You can now better see the different shades of blue in the logo.
The light blue and orange would be the colors used on the white basecolor.

Example of tailart

Picture courtesy of paulrobertlloyd.com/articles/britain_rebranded/


Thanks for doing this.

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Airline Branding Center / Re: Need a livery?

« on: September 11, 2010, 04:04:39 pm »

I would like to request a livery,

Paint Scheme Request Form
Your Airline Name - Royal First Airlines
Your Airline Logo -
Colors - Mostly white with the logo colors incorperated (blue & orange)
Country of Origin - Netherlands
Registration - PH-AOU A320-100, PH-AOD A310-300HGW, PH-AOP B777-200ER
Aircraft Name - Uiver A320-100, Duif A310-300HGW, Pelikaan B777-200ER
Aircraft - A320-100, A310-300HGW, B777-200ER
Extra Notes -
Names are related to the last registration letter. I would apriciate a small crown to display the fact that it`s a royal airline. And the dutch flag near the registration. I like the artwork on the tail as by British Airways aircraft.

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Game Data / Re: States, Provences, Counties

« on: September 01, 2010, 03:09:34 am »

Nederlandse Antillen (155)

This country will cease to excist at October 10th 2010.

Two islands (Curacau and Sint Maarten) will become countries like Aruba.

The other islands will become special counties within the country of the Netherlands.

The split-up will look like this in AM.

Kingdom of the Netherlands

Netherlands (154)

(154, 'Friesland'), (154, 'Groningen'), (154, 'Drenthe'), (154, 'Noord-Holland'), (154, 'Flevoland'), (154, 'Zuid-Holland'), (154, 'Overijssel'), (154, 'Gelderland'), (154, 'Utrecht'), (154, 'Zeeland'), (154, 'Noord-Brabant'), (154, 'Limburg'), (154, 'Nederlandse Antillen'*)

Noord-Holland, 6
Zuid-Holland, 617
Brabant, 20
Overijssel, 2046
Groningen, 611
Limburg, 618
Nederlandse Antillen, 422


Aruba (12)

(12, 'Aruba')

Aruba, 407


Curacao** (?)

(?, 'Curacao')

Curacao, 421


Sint Maarten (?)

(?, 'Sint Maarten')

Sint Maarten, 423

* Officially there will be no provence of Nederlandse Antillen, the left over Islands will be counties not assigned to any provence. Hence the term special counties. In order to keep it understandable for foreigners, I named the group Nederlandse Antillen instead of Speciale Gemeenten.
** The last c is a c with a tail (cedilla), but I couldn`t find it on my keyboard.

Edit by StephenM: We will hold off on the changes until the 10th of October.

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Game Data / Re: States, Provences, Counties

« on: September 01, 2010, 02:54:05 am »

Suriname (206)

(206, 'Brokopondo'), (206, 'Commewijne'), (206, 'Coronie'), (206, 'Marowijne'), (206, 'Nickerie'), (206, 'Para'), (206, 'Paramaribo'), (206, 'Saramacca'), (206, 'Sipaliwini'), (206, 'Wanica')

Paramaribo, 1421

Greets RFA

Added by StephenM - Thanks

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Game Updates / Re: Gates Improvements

« on: September 01, 2010, 02:13:20 am »

Will this feature also enable you to return bought gates, sofar the return terminal function does not work.

Greets Royal First Airlines

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General Chat / Re: Closing many routes at once, how to?

« on: August 26, 2010, 03:43:37 am »

I noticed that it works when you have only one hub selected. When you have an overview of all your hubs (either by hub or just all routes in one column) on the view routes page or alliance flights selected, the tick box function does not work.

Greets,
Royal First Airlines

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General Chat / Returning build gates

« on: August 26, 2010, 03:38:19 am »

I small question.

Can you return gates which you have build? For example, I bought gates instead of renting, because of the lower gatecosts in one world I`m playing in (PW452). Now I`m cutting down on flights from those hubs, closing down routes to smaller airports. The gates rented at those smaller airports are returned, but I`m stuck to the (now) surplus gates a build at my hubs. Am I overlooking something or is this correct?

Greets,
Ron Overdijk aka Royal First Airlines

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Game Strategy / Re: Maintenance and when to retire planes

« on: August 25, 2010, 06:32:25 pm »

Thanks for the quick reply. I got several retired B707`s & DC-8`s on sale in a private world and maintanance going through the roof. So probalbly start scrapping them if no buyers show up anytime soon. (PW452)

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Game Strategy / Re: Maintenance and when to retire planes

« on: August 25, 2010, 02:50:27 pm »

I have a question related to this.

When you have old planes for sale (either on open market or privatly), do you still pay the full maintance costs?

Ron Overdijk (NL) aka Royal First Airlines

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Bugs / [Fixed] msql error when mass-buying aircraft

« on: August 23, 2010, 06:16:06 pm »

I noticed that when a want to buy several aircraft in one go using the check boxes, either on the open market or when aircraft are offered privatly, I receive an msql error. Forcing me to buy the aircraft one by one, a long task when you recieve over 20 aircraft on a private offer. This problem occurs an all worlds I`m playing sofar.

Greets Ron Overdijk (NL) aka Royal First Airlines.

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General Chat / Re: Maintence Fee

« on: July 23, 2010, 12:28:09 pm »

I`ve got the same problem in PW452.

The year is 1961 and everyone has started replacing their Lockheed and Douglas prop airplanes with jets since 1958/1959. Mostly Boeing as that was the first to come out (707-120). Now the 707-120 reach 3yr and the maintanance is killing me. I`m still replacing my old prop aircraft some over 5yr old, and I`m trying to use as much as possible DC-8 (cheaper to buy, less fuel but still a good speed and seats to compete with Boeing.) But the first 136 707-120 are crushing me. Shouldn`t jet aircraft at least be profitable for 5yr before their maintance kills you, they cost a bundle. Easy 3 times a prop aircraft, but you can`t use them past 2.5yr, where a prop aircraft remains usable up to 7.5yr I rekon. I`m 14th in rank so not the smallest of all, but still. My extra cash of 60 Billion is gone and reach profit on the 18th or 19th day with a total profit of +/- 250 Million and falling. Barely enough to replace those 707-120 even if I want to.