As long as you realize that a fleet of planes that small means you won't be in the top players in the game have at it.
Kinda a given, yeah.
good luck to get rid of them when you need to
Or not.
No, seriously, though, I have neither the intention, nor the need to get rid of them. One of the funny things is I can throw a Colt at high frequency at a bigger airport, fill its seats each flight, and still be able to charge a dirt cheap price, while turning a profit. I don't
care about becoming a bigger airline - I played that game last round, and found nothing but irritation and frustration as I hit every major route in the US that I could, only to have all my good routes destroyed by competition, as people started dropping Sud Est and Super Connies at 6+ frequency, for 1 Euro prices.
To hell with that. I figured I'd do something completely off the wall this time around, and would instead hit every single route within 557 nm of my own bases, and would fill in all the smaller routes at my Allies bases that they can't/won't take. Example: one of my allies, Great Leader Airways,
only flies Communist routes from his base in NK. That means he leaves all the South Korean and Japanese bases within range completely alone, which I then can take care of. TahoeXpress, my other ally, is ignoring the smaller routes out of his west coast cities in North America. I take care of those. Great Leader, then, can take care of San Francisco, Berkeley, and other select routes in the People's Republics of California and Massachusetts (hey, I
live in California, I can make that joke.
)
I went into this
intending to be a small regional carrier, and
intending to use one of my favorite Real Life(tm) aircraft, the An-2P - someone used to fly one out of KMYF, where I got my own flight training. If the FAA weren't being such asshats about them/me (minor medical issues have me temporarily grounded), I'd probably seek to buy one after I finish flight training, and set it up as a water bomber, something we just don't have enough of here in SoCal. They're
great aircraft.
So, yeah, making my own fun this time around. And, trust me, 209 Antonovs? I
will have every single one of those in use by the end of next week (factoring in the time it'll take me to create all those routes, and my own Real Life(tm) obligations.).
