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General Chat / Route Set-up Expenses

« on: August 12, 2009, 07:45:27 am »

My questions is regarding the expense on the route set-up page.  When I set-up my route, the expense cost fluctuates with the price of the the tickets.  I know that if I had a load factor say 80% my expense would be lower because I would require less meal and less fuel since the plane would be lighter.  However, when you first going to the page, the ticket price is set at €1 so the load factor would be 100%. So when adjusting the ticket price to max with 100 % LF.  Should the expense not stay the same since there are seat-class differences.  There no more extra meals or fuel that would increase cost.  Can someone explain why there would be differences in expenses?  Sorry, no images, but here are a few examples.  I created a route from Rome (Leonardo De Vinci) to Leknes Airport using a A300-B2-100.  Here's what I get using the following ticket prices. €1, 75, €125, €200, as seen blelow.  I realize the difference in the amount of money isn't a significant sum, but any extra money helps.  Just like an explanation why this happens.  Thaks

Ticket Price: €1 Revenue: €4,271 Expense: €29,832 Profit/Loss: € -25,561 LF: 100$ Ticket Price: €75 Revenue: €53,999 Expense: €31,572 Profit/Loss: €22,427 LF: 100% Ticket Price: €125 Revenue: €87,599 Expense: €32,748 Profit/Loss: €54,851 LF: 100% (Close to max) Ticket Price: €200 Revenue: €57,972 Expense: €29,080 Profit/Loss: €28,891 LF: 42.01%

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Bugs / [Not a bug] Block Time

« on: August 09, 2009, 11:09:35 pm »

I read in one of the posting that block time is the time it takes to make 1 round trip.  Is this correct?  I noticed on some of my routes when I go to create the routes that the block time shown is for one-way trip and not for round trip.  I just created a route from London to Kemerovo using a Lockheed L1011-1.  On the create route page the block time shows 7:28(7.48 hr).  On the research route page it showing 14.91. 

User ID 27760
World: 730
Airline: Continental Movers Corp (CMC)
Aircraft ID: 11111
Route ID: 69437

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Bugs / Re: Gate usage bug

« on: July 19, 2009, 12:50:43 am »

I still have couple gates where errors appears.  But for the most part all the majority of the gates are as they should.

ID: 27760
Airline Continental Movers Corps

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Bugs / Re: Flight Numbering Bug

« on: July 18, 2009, 10:21:01 am »

Airline ID: 27760
Airline: Continental Movers Corp
World: 730

I have a slightly different problem.  I have put in a unique ID number for some my flights, however if I go to close route, I will not allow me to do that.  It gives me this error "Flight Number Error  The flight number you selected is already in use by your airline."  The route is London to Dublin, route ID:27197.  my route ID is CMC 10035.  In order for me to close the route I need to remove my route ID, in this case CMC 10035.

Secondly, I notice that one of the airports is being mislabel.  By this I mean in the view gates page it listed at Altenburg, Spain.  But when I look at the view routes page it label as Leipzig - Altenburg.  Sorry, I don't have an image for either issues.  I haven't figured out how to insert an image on to this posting, yet.   I only figure it out because I was trying to change planes for this route and by chance I create different route to Altenburg just prior to my attempt to close this route.

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Bugs / Editing Routes

« on: July 17, 2009, 10:36:51 am »

I notice in the Aircraft Summary Page ( View Aircraft --> Select Aircraft from list --> Aircraft Summary Page) that there are edit and close route buttons when you select the aircraft that you own.  But for aircraft that are leased, these buttons are not available.  It would make edit routes easier if these buttons were also on the leased aircraft.

Public World 730
Airline: Continental Mover Corp.
User ID 27760

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Bugs / Slot Error

« on: July 17, 2009, 07:57:47 am »

I noticed that quite a few of my airport have less slots spaces than actually being used.  For example I'm have on flight from London to Bilbao and one from Frankfurt to Bilbao, with London and Frankfurt as my hubs.  Both flights are 1 frequency.  However the slot usage at Bilbao is 4, meaning I have 6 open slots.  If I look at other airport where I have similar set-ups the slot usage is 2 with 8 open slots.  I also have some that have 5 or 7 open slots left.  Assuming that this errors is also occurring at my hubs, I now paying extra for slots (gates) that are actually not being used.  I not absolutely sure since I have a few flights with 2 frequencies.  I wondering if the error is cause by closing routes and restarting them again.  Anyone else notice this problem?

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General Chat / Tokens

« on: July 14, 2009, 08:52:09 am »

Hi

I just purchase and redeem my tokens to use for the premium gates search (100 tokens).  I then went to paid for the premium gates search service.  However, I hit the reload button and notice that it took of an extra 10 tokens, so now I'm down to 80 tokens.  I don't mind if it means I get 120 days of this service instead of 60 days, but if doesn't work that way then I need a refund on 10 tokens.  Secondly, the premium gate search service is not working on my account, now that I have paid for it.  Can someone have a look and fix this issue.

Also, just wondering if the hotswapping feature up and running yet?

Thanks

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General Chat / Re: Purchase vs Leasing????

« on: July 13, 2009, 02:54:10 am »

Ooops.. Ok re-did the calculation at again.  Still the leasing options comes out slightly better that purchasing
Replacing the plane only 4 times, the profit came to 1,232,694,982 - maintenance cost.

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General Chat / Purchase vs Leasing????

« on: July 13, 2009, 01:21:23 am »

Can a lease be terminated by the person who is leasing out their planes at any time or do they have to wait until either the lease expires or the plane is return to them? 

Secondly can some one explain why owning is actually better than leasing?  Only reason I ask is that I'm leasing a bunch of planes and I looking at this example below.  In the game I'm playing, I'm leasing a bunch of planes, with some having a lease of 120 months.  In my case, the lease rate seem quite reason while still able to make a decent profit.

Example

My assumption is that the plane will run the same routes and will be make money.  I know that there are a lot of variable involved that have an affect on the game.  So I'm just keeping it very simple.
 
So assuming I making an average daily profit of $500,000 using a Boeing 737-200
In the 120 months I would make a total of $1,440,000,000 profit

Leasing

Boeing 737-200
Cost: 4,000,000/month
Period: 120 months

Total Cost at the end of 120 months lease: $480,000,000

Profit through leasing

1,440,000,000 - total lease = 1,388,163,232

Purchasing

Boeing
Cost  $51,836,768/plane
Period: 120 months.
Assumptions: replacing every 3 yrs. since maintenance skyrockets after 3 yrs.
Therefore I would need to have replace the plane 40 times

Total Cost of purchase is for 40 planes over the same terms (120 months) is $2,073,470,720 + maintenance cost (whatever that works out to)

Profit through purchase

1,440,000,000 - purchases (40 planes) = -633,470,720 + maintenance cost


I assume that there's is not such thing as plane crashes or accidents in this game.

As I see it, leasing a plane on a long term deal seem to be a better deal than owning, assuming that a lease cannot be canceled by the plane's owner. 
Please correctly me if I'm wrong.

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General Chat / Aircraft Age

« on: July 11, 2009, 09:54:18 pm »

I notice that on my the lease aircraft page, all the aircraft available for lease have ages  0 years.  I leased 2 planes and found that they we're 1.8 year and 1.1 years.  Though, it doesn't make a difference to my bottom line in terms of maintenance, it would be nice to actually know what I am getting for my money.  I'm not sure if this is bug or not.  There is no info about age on subsequent lease pages.  I only get this info once I have leased the aircraft and look under the view aircraft menu.   

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General Chat / Re: Multi-routes

« on: July 11, 2009, 10:10:57 am »

Thanks for the responses.  The Diagram is quite useful. 

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General Chat / Multi-routes

« on: July 10, 2009, 11:02:55 pm »

Hi

I'm new to the game and need some help.  I have been able to get a lot of my question answered reading through the various posting except for one.  I been looking through the forum regarding multi-routes.  I read through many of the posting, and so far I haven't found any that shows how to create multi-routes.  I notices in a few posting, the talk about frequencies of routes, having multi-routes and how they work, but non actually show how to create a multi-routes.  When I say multi-routes, I mean creating a route that flies for point A to B to C to D.  At the moment I have routes fly to a destination and returning to my hub and then flying to another destination (ie. A to B to A, A to C to A, A to D to A)  This is for one aircraft.  Thus, I under utilizing my destination airports since 1 gate give me 10 slots and I'm only using 1 or 2 slot per airport.  What do I have to do to create a multi-route.  Thank you in advance for you help