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Game Strategy / Re: Best Aircraft for a Caribbean Airline

« on: March 03, 2011, 11:53:47 pm »

I prefer the CRJ/ERJ jets for smaller intra-island route and the A319 for the American routes. Basically, there is a short and long range version. Use the long range version if you want to reach the northern US airports, the smaller one for southern US routes. If you have the money you can use A320s, to extremely crowded places eg. JFK, ATL, Chicago, Los Angeles, Orlando, Miami, Mexico City(add Denver if you want to stretch that).

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Game Strategy / Re: Startup Low Cost Airline

« on: March 03, 2011, 01:20:14 am »

The Valsan and the DC8, and other planes with 3 pilots, have lots of misc costs as you pay more wage. Happened to me when I bought 4 DC8s, my airline suddenly became unprofitable so I ditched them.

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Game Strategy / Re: Startup Low Cost Airline

« on: March 02, 2011, 01:24:37 am »

170 seater:
Airbus A320(179-180 seats, moderate everything)
Boeing 737-400 (159 seats, also moderate everything except bad fuel consumption)
Douglas DC8-72(189 seats, extremely long range, bad fuel consumption and misc fees)
Valsan 727-200RE(189 seats, excellent speed, bad fuel consumption and misc fees)
McDonell Douglas MD81/82/83/88(172 seater, slow for a jet, fuel consumption a bit high, bad range on the 81 and 82)
McDonell Douglas MD90-30/50/55(172-187 seater, slow for a jet but good fuel consumption)
*Excluded Soviets, due to their extremely high costs associated with them

Not much to choose from, though you might consider the 757 and the A310, they go in the long range category.

Aircraft are from the 90s time, the MD90 is released somewhere in 94'. My game year is in 1995, so planes after that are unknown. The CRJ-701 is an excellent aircraft in the 100 seater category, it has around 500 speed and its extremely fuel efficient. Jets might be better, though most turboprops are much more fuel efficient.

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Game Strategy / Re: Startup Low Cost Airline

« on: March 02, 2011, 12:58:43 am »

If so, and what you need is 50seater/100 seater/170 seater, here are some reccomendations:

50 seater:
CRJ-100/ER/LR (52 seater, good fuel consumption, good speed)
Fokker F28(65-85 seater, bad fuel consumption)
Fokker F50(58 seater, good fuel consumption but its a turboprop)
ATR 42-300/320/500 (50 seater, good fuel consumption, turboprop speed but has some extra speed on the 500 version)
ATR 72(74 seater, good fuel consumption, turboprop speed)
BAe ATP/J61(70-72 seater, you can choose options for the ATP. Good fuel consumption)
Saab 2000(58 seater, fastest turboprop out there, fuel consumption is a bit high for a turboprop 58 seater)
100 seater:
Boeing 737-200Adv (130 seater, excellent speed but fuel consumption is a bit high)
Boeing 737-300/500 (122-134 seater, moderate speed, moderate fuel consumption)
Avro RJ/BAe 146 (82-128 seater, slow for a jet, excellent fuel consumption)
Fokker 100(119 seater, moderate speed, good fuel consumption)
McDonell Douglas MD-83(139 seats, slow for a jet, moderate fuel consumption and range)
Valsan 727-100RE(131 seats, excellent speed, good range, horrible fuel consumption)

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General Chat / Re: Show your colors - The Liveries Topic

« on: March 01, 2011, 01:50:08 am »

These are my colors from my previous(finished) public world. Forgot what world was it, but its the last full world before #1841


I had 4 of these, one of them running Nice-Hong Kong-Sydney, with the London leg to Heathrow was done by an ATR-72


The top theme is a livery used on long range aircraft(DC8-72, L1011 and MD-11) while the bottom livery is one used by European domestic aircraft.

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Game Strategy / Re: Startup Low Cost Airline

« on: March 01, 2011, 01:26:28 am »

Use CRJs for lower-capacity routes and the 737-500 for trunk routes. Since its a private world, there won't be much competition. I'd prefer using one aircraft type as it reduces maintenance costs. Watch as your plane ages, after around about 5 years, the maintenance costs spike up and you have to get a new one. By common sense, widely used aircraft are cheaper to maintain overall.

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Game Strategy / Re: Route expenses

« on: July 04, 2010, 03:31:16 pm »

its staff+fuel price.

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Game Strategy / Re: F100/A319/B717

« on: July 04, 2010, 03:29:29 pm »

I use regional aircraft for routes to gate prices of 150000/200000, usually ATR 42.
Airline Mogul - See my airline
Use jet planes on 'Very Good' demand routes.
If you want to experiment go to a private world(go to private world section) or join a public world while its new.
Avro RJX-70 carries only 82 pax, yet cheap, and fuel efficient(584 fuel usage)
Higher-end embraer aircraft is also good, its 38-40m but its extremely fuel-efficient(~500)