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« on: April 24, 2008, 11:10:49 am »
I've been playing this game for about a week now and had my account reset once after I completely messed up the first time, due to a lack of understanding of how the game works. However, I still can't manage to understand how on EARTH i'm supposed to actually make my airline profitable. Let's look at the finances:
I start off with the default DHC-6-300, which costs 150.000 per month in maintenance. Add to that three gates, one at the base and one each at my two destination airports. These gates cost a total of 400.000. Add to that the other expenses of a few thousand euros. This comes down to a little over 550.000 per month in expenses. My question now is; how the HELL am I supposed to make that kind of money on two routes? At the moment I'm flying between three major metropolitan cities (hence the high gate costs) and bringing in 125.000 per month in total revenue, which is obviously not enough to break even. I've also tried flying exclusively between smaller airports with much cheaper gates an no competition, but that didn't work either - I was in the same financial situation as I am now, only on a smaller scale. This all seems like a big Catch 22 to me; I need to rent gates in order to add new routes and make more money, but the money I make on each route is always less than what I pay for each gate.
Obviously(?) I must have missed some vital, vital aspect of the game, or I'm either doing something completely wrong here, so could someone PLEASE point out to me what it is that I should be doing but isn't in order to break even?
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I just logged in to my account a short while ago only to notice that my finances are indeed in the black, and with a good margin to. I appreciate all the strategy tips too, they will certainly come in handy.