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General Chat / Top 10 Airlines

« on: January 06, 2008, 05:12:04 pm »

No American airline should be on this top 10 list. Americans who haven't flown an airline based outside the US have no idea how superior the other airlines are.

EDIT: expect maybe Southwest

SouthWorst and superior in the same quote....                                                              

Oh come on. Everyone knows Southwest is the flying bus, but still- you get the most out of what you pay for. Why pay double, triple the price on other "full-service" US carriers for about the same quality?

-Significantly lower fares. Check for yourself: http://www.southwest.com/hotfares/hotfares2.html
-They have the a better frequent flyer program than the other US carriers, especially for students (its not based on mileage). Students: book 3 roundtrips, get 4th free
-Less delays, more convenient because they use secondary airports (ie. Dallas Love, Chicago Midway)
-No seating assignments (sit wherever you want)
-No fatalities in history

I'm not saying Southwest is the best airline in terms of service, but when you consider cost and ease of travel, I think it ranks among the best.

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General Chat / Top 10 Airlines

« on: January 06, 2008, 04:44:40 pm »

No American airline should be on this top 10 list. Americans who haven't flown an airline based outside the US have no idea how superior the other airlines are.

EDIT: expect maybe Southwest

If you think about it, which has more accidents? Hmm? Is it the flights out of the US? Yes it is.
By the way, my top 10 is changing.

1)Northwest Airlines
2)American Airlines
3)Pan Am Airways-Not in service
4)jetBlue Airways
5)AirTran Airways
6)Midwest Airlines
7)Frontier Airlines
8)Trans World Airlines-Not in service
9)Pan Am Clipper Connection
10)Southwest Airlines

Are you basing your top 10 on quality/price? What factors go into your decision? I mentioned Southwest (even though they are a discount airline) because I think you get most out of what you pay for. Northwest and American are average US airlines, if they are your the top 10 then Continental, Alaska, United and US Air should be as well. airTran is a joke and Frontier is another discount carrier...

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General Chat / Whats your most flown route?

« on: January 06, 2008, 03:54:51 pm »

EWR - ORD - EWR on Continental

Almost guaranteed to be delayed...

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General Chat / Top 10 Airlines

« on: January 06, 2008, 03:45:23 pm »

No American airline should be on this top 10 list. Americans who haven't flown an airline based outside the US have no idea how superior the other airlines are.

EDIT: expect maybe Southwest

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General Chat / How many people charge for drinks/food?

« on: January 02, 2008, 06:03:37 pm »

"It is realistic. The more the price increases the more it affects how many people drink your coffee. I charge mine at 20. As I calculated about 70% of my people drink the coffee."

Do you have any idea of how much negative press someone in the 70's would have gotten for charging what would be the 1970 equivalent of close to 200USD for a cup of coffee?  Nobody would buy anything you were selling ever.  In fact, nobody would fly on your airline as back then people were not paying for drinks or food.  You'd have a serious hit not in who bought your coffee, but who got on your planes.  

If you dont like it. Leave it."

Leave it?  Please keep your comments and trolls to yourself.  Were you able to charge $1m euros for a flight from Albany, NY to Sarasota people might think it was out of whack.  The pricing structure of this totally takes away from the game.

Couldn't have said it better. Amen.

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General Chat / How many people charge for drinks/food?

« on: January 02, 2008, 07:34:09 am »

It is realistic. The more the price increases the more it affects how many people drink your coffee. I charge mine at 20. As I calculated about 70% of my people drink the coffee.

If you dont like it. Leave it.

Realistic? Would you buy a cup of coffee for 20 euros?

Didn't think so. The system determining prices for food/drinks needs to be fixed, IMO.

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General Chat / James Design Studio

« on: January 02, 2008, 04:17:28 am »

Wow, great stuff here. Could you make a flashing banner ad for me using this banner as a guide?



I guess what I am imagining here is the mountain background with the text "Get that mile high" and then "Fly Mountainair"...am I making sense?

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General Chat / Best Real-Life Airlines

« on: October 29, 2007, 09:43:18 pm »

In Asia: Singapore, EVA Air (no accidents in history), heard Korean Air had a good reputation too

In the US: all of the major carriers are decent, not great. I like Continental.

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General Chat / Martin 2-0-2 or DC-3

« on: October 29, 2007, 07:02:09 am »

DC-3's are great for start-up airlines because they are dirt cheap. But once your established and there are less routes available, its much more efficient to roll with the Martin's. The DC-3's I have make around 75-125K, while Martins could pull in 150-250K for me. I'm currently in the process of getting rid of all my DC-3's in favor of the Martins.

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General Chat / 777 Members

« on: October 22, 2007, 12:58:00 am »

hilarious

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Game Data / [ISO 3166-1 alpha-2] Country Name Updates

« on: September 16, 2007, 06:10:11 am »

Taiwan's official name should be: Taiwan (Republic of China). It is not a province of China.

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Game News / New warning concerning Gate hogging

« on: September 09, 2007, 06:09:05 am »

Thanks to the AM staff for cracking down on this issue. dktc, if your gonna start in Asia, make sure you take a look at TPE!

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General Chat / Why are my gates being released?

« on: September 07, 2007, 04:51:10 am »

Unused gates get removed at the end of each month. Just rent them out again afterwards and make sure you set up some routes on them before the next month (ie. you have 24 hours)

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Game News / RE: Account Has Exceeded Its CPU Quota

« on: September 07, 2007, 04:23:20 am »

ok im about to call i quits.    

i think in the last hour its been down more then up

Patience. It usually takes 10/15 minutes at most for me. Time to start donating money for that upgraded server i guess...

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General Chat / return the gates,Nagoya - Seuol-Incheon,Osaka

« on: September 04, 2007, 02:50:45 am »

for responsing the request of royal pacific airline, king's arm airline would release 20 gates in jaka after one week. because i just busy on work, i need some time to reconstruct my route. i also hope smartmo airline release his gates.

same here...i need some gates in taipei taoyuan