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Game Strategy / Re: Building a Terminal
« on: November 29, 2008, 01:41:48 am »
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Game Strategy / Re: Getting tired of 'big guys'
« on: November 26, 2008, 02:20:44 am »
Agreed. After putting it to use I found I was making more money with a freakin' Convair. They'll work until I can afford more long range high yeild aircraft. Plus since they're in demand I can probably make a few bucks in the used market with em'.
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Game News / Re: Help Airline Mogul - Donate a picture
« on: November 24, 2008, 10:01:22 am »
Just sent in a few shots I've taken down here in Houston. Hopefully a few are usable.
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Game News / Re: Total Fanboy Post
« on: November 24, 2008, 09:38:53 am »
Agreed. AM should have a surgeon general's warning for being highly addicitve. I'm going to be sad when my world ends and I have to start a new airline.
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Bugs / Re: LF bug W14
« on: November 24, 2008, 12:50:29 am »
Best to run a single flight at 2x frequency rather than compete with yourself by running two 1x flights
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Game Strategy / Re: Need Help!
« on: November 24, 2008, 12:20:07 am »
Shop around on the bases... I just opened one in one city because it was less expensive in terms of lease, and far fewer competitors than most of the other nearby (and not much bigger) cities. Less competition is always a good thing, higher profits and less fare changes each day. 
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Game Strategy / Re: Newbie strategy
« on: November 24, 2008, 12:16:16 am »
A plane flying many small routes seems to do better than flying a few long routes, unless it's a new world and competition is slim. Leases are good as long as you shop around and know you're getting a good rate and return it as soon as you can afford to buy the aircraft from the mfr.
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Game Strategy / Re: Getting tired of 'big guys'
« on: November 24, 2008, 12:09:27 am »
How big you are is relative to the size of the world. I'm in world #14, which is maxxed out at 1322 players, I'm ranked 76 right now. Moving up from bottom to the lower 100's is easy, but just about everyone above me has more than twice my value flying way more passengers. Its only going to get tougher from here, but it's a fun game.
A few things I and a few friends are doing...
I look at other airlines, what planes they're using and what routes they use them on. I know I'm not the best mogul'er in the world, and have learned a lot from seeing other routes
Once night I had enough cash to finally go trans atlantic and managed to secure the last remaining gate at London Gatwick. The (used) 707 I was eyeing suddenly dissapeared from the used market (it was a rare 'below value' sale..) so I leased a 707 until I could buy a Convair 990, which I'm finally about to replace with my first 747. Don't be afraid to lease but keep it short term. I try not to lease for more than 2-3 months at a time.
Keep the planes full, I try to stay in the 90% range but the more routes you get, the harder it is to do so.
Excel your routes. When I was first starting I would log each route into an Excel spreadsheet with formulas to calculate the cost, proftability, and seat revenue per mile for each route and aircraft. There's too many routes to do so now, but with a smaller airline it's not a bad idea. I turned many $40k-$60k routes into $100k routes doing this.
Thats all I can think of off the top of my head. Just have fun with it and don't be scared to fly into the big cities, just think twice before creating a base at one.
A few things I and a few friends are doing...
I look at other airlines, what planes they're using and what routes they use them on. I know I'm not the best mogul'er in the world, and have learned a lot from seeing other routes
Once night I had enough cash to finally go trans atlantic and managed to secure the last remaining gate at London Gatwick. The (used) 707 I was eyeing suddenly dissapeared from the used market (it was a rare 'below value' sale..) so I leased a 707 until I could buy a Convair 990, which I'm finally about to replace with my first 747. Don't be afraid to lease but keep it short term. I try not to lease for more than 2-3 months at a time.
Keep the planes full, I try to stay in the 90% range but the more routes you get, the harder it is to do so.
Excel your routes. When I was first starting I would log each route into an Excel spreadsheet with formulas to calculate the cost, proftability, and seat revenue per mile for each route and aircraft. There's too many routes to do so now, but with a smaller airline it's not a bad idea. I turned many $40k-$60k routes into $100k routes doing this.
Thats all I can think of off the top of my head. Just have fun with it and don't be scared to fly into the big cities, just think twice before creating a base at one.
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General Chat / How to lease out aircraft?
« on: October 26, 2008, 02:36:18 am »
Ok I give up, how do you lease or sell aircraft? I can't find the option unless I'm just blind...
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General Chat / Re: # of aircraft seats and # of routes?
« on: October 26, 2008, 01:31:49 am »
Thanks, don't know how many spreadsheet out their airline but if you do your math right it can really help growth. Time for me to upgrade seats on certain routes!
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General Chat / # of aircraft seats and # of routes?
« on: October 26, 2008, 01:11:38 am »
I'm setting up a spreadsheet to calculate the SPM income and was wondering, on routes where it is one way (0.5), and you're operating it with a 63 seat aircraft, you would just count that as a 63 seat flight, correct? What about round trip flights (1), would you count 63 seats or 126?
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