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Suggestions / Re: Early Aircraft Orders

« on: January 11, 2013, 11:30:53 pm »

That would be sweet! Please do so!

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Game Strategy / Re: Concorde

« on: January 05, 2013, 07:32:11 pm »

Hi,
Thats is a good suggestion however I have never joined an alliance something in my head suggests its a bad idea as you allow other people to come in and use your gates as well and possibly uncut you. I know a rival airline can do that anyway however I feel safer if you will to run as an independent airline.
I have enough of a doc to support this as I wont get the Concorde until Monday next week and I already have something like 20 737-100's on order for my short range operations.
regards
dave

Alliance in a public world aren't a good idea unless you have some type of understanding with the alliance members. In a private world it can be a good idea, mostly for long haul routes that the alliance member isn't using. For instance if your alliance member has a base at SVO (Moscow) and doesn't serve Pacific bases. You could run SVO-PEK and SVO-NRT, etc. without undercutting the alliance member at SVO.

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General Chat / Re: Maintainance costs?

« on: December 25, 2012, 05:06:01 am »

Stephen,

Let me know what you need. I'd be happy to help as long as you do all the hard work (like aggregating the data).

Thanks,

 - Caleb

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General Chat / Re: Maintainance costs?

« on: December 23, 2012, 04:11:29 pm »

I want to buy a 8 year-old plane, but the cycles/airframe hours is 0. The cost will be the same of a new plane or not?

To expand on what Matias said. You could reap some short turn benefits from the plane if the selling price is low (50% of current value) and it allows you to move into a market (city pairing) that you can't serve now or between two big cities that you've been priced out of by competitors.

Also as Matias said, if you have a larger fleet of smaller airplanes, adding a cheap but old plane of a larger capacity (more per flight profit before maintenance) may inject some cash into your airline.

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Game Updates / Re: Airline Mogul turns 7!

« on: December 23, 2012, 04:07:29 pm »

We also hope to roll out Hotswap (The ability to change an aircraft on a route without closing it) progressively in the early New Year. It has been in test for quite some time with no outstanding bugs.

Best news I've seen all day. Especially with the disappointing result at Swansea today.

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General Chat / Re: Maintainance costs?

« on: December 21, 2012, 11:54:49 pm »

Bad luck.

I never buy off the market, as it's full of people trying to trap newbies into buying useless old aircraft at over-inflated prices, when they really should scrap them.

If you base at a reasonably large airport with good routes, you can soon make enough to buy from new. OK you have to wait a bit, but AM is in part a waiting game, especially in the early stages.

Think like a real airline - start off small and keep it affordable.

Think twice about going for those widebody jets before you really need them and then plan their routes carefully- you now know about the maintanance charges

Established brokers are a good way to buy, you'll get a discount but might have to wait a bit longer.

Note that this isn't so bad (buying older planes) if you get a good price and you have the feeder network (not feeder in the traditional sense, but feeding revenue to your airline). Especially if post of your other planes are new.

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Flight Simulators & Online Flying / Re: New virtual airline - Wesdas

« on: December 18, 2012, 02:51:22 pm »

Filled in the ERJ-135 route map:



In addition, I add the EBJ-KEF-MSP route in the A320:

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Flight Simulators & Online Flying / Re: Recent Routes in Flight Sim

« on: December 18, 2012, 02:40:59 pm »

Recent routes in Flight Sim with a variety of different planes. Some of these are for fun and some for Virtual Airlines. (WESDAS flights are not included and are already in a different thread.)

MSP-ISN: 737-700
MSP-BIS: A320-200
MSP-LHR: 747-8i
EKCH-EIDW: 737-800
EKCH-GCLP: 737-800
MAD-LEBL: A340-600 (for a test flight really)

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Airline Reports / Re: United Airlines

« on: December 18, 2012, 02:17:07 pm »

Welcome to the forum, but you may want to elaborate a bit.

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Game Strategy / Re: How long to keep caravelle III

« on: December 18, 2012, 02:16:22 pm »

I'd say you'd be fine at 12m. I might consider beginning a replacement program though.

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General Chat / Re: Alliance - question

« on: December 16, 2012, 09:30:43 pm »

If you mean by the same two destinations:

For instance if Airline A, Airline B and Airline C all are part of Alliance Y and they have a route each between Airport 1 and Airport 2, then the income derived by each airline is less.

For instance it might be €800 for one airline running the route and €600 with two airlines and then €450 for three airline. Three might be €450. Those are just examples showing the fares go down based on competition on the route.

The only thing that I don't know if if there is a different effect on profits based on whether you're competing with an alliance member or not, but I'd think not based on experience.

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General Chat / Re: Be carefull what you write

« on: December 10, 2012, 07:42:02 pm »

Nice to know I don't have to deal with that in the good ol' U.S. of A.

Really? Talk about being ignorant of the food-industry in your own country. They are 10x times worse, and the law even helps them.

I was specifically referring to Ryanair.

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General Chat / Re: Be carefull what you write

« on: December 09, 2012, 06:53:10 pm »

Nice to know I don't have to deal with that in the good ol' U.S. of A.

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Flight Simulators & Online Flying / Re: Research

« on: November 27, 2012, 10:06:35 pm »

Have you tried airliners.net?

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Game Strategy / Re: What should i do next?

« on: November 25, 2012, 08:14:24 pm »

If you're going for strictly money, drop long haul and focus on a network that incorporates hubs that can serve airports from multiple hubs.

For example:

If you have hubs at ATL and ORD, adding JFK will allow you to serve most of, if not all your current airports without you having to rent more gates. If you add say, SFO, you may not be able to serve all of the same airports with your current fleet.

That hasn't always been my strategy, but if you really want to make money quickly, focus on having hubs with high pax traffic and that are near each other w/i 1,500 to 2,000 nm (depending on your fleet).

I'm not saying you can't do any long haul, but if you're doing TALT from ATL and ORD (I've had this come up), you normally need 4200 nm + range a/c and those are expense and you'll want to keep them under 3 years of age and then cycle in new a/c. Also general consensus is to keep the seats below 300, which the A300-600R or maybe the DC-8 may be your best bet for TALT flights. Not super familiar with L-1011s, but A306s have worked well for me.