General Feedback
lastchancer:
Awesome!
Totally new experience compared to all other running game worlds.
New (or better said old and almost forgotten) airplanes to experiment with, cope with tiny loadfactors...
Suggestion:
Due to the limited range of the airplanes in this time, long distance flights used to be done with a lot of stops in between, for exemple to fly from London to Hong Kong. Thatīs not possible just now. Maybe a 2nd technical stop would be a solution to make this possible. (I mean only fuel stop, not a third leg!)
elpiett:
The mighty DC-3 takes to the skies...
But I must say, pax demand is very low. I'm currently flying from Brussels and have to note that a lot of destinations, even to larger cities, only have a 10-15 pax demand. Don't know how realistic that is.
I agree with lastchancer on the extra legs. Flying long-haul in the fifties required quite some stops, it would be nice if we had the option to include some extra tech-stops
ReedME:
Indeed, however elpiett remember that this is the 50's, the start of air travel for the general population, in most cases it couldn't be afforded! And not many people were that eager.
Maarten Otto:
I am operating 6 return trips a day between Glasgow and Heathrow with a DC 3 and that is a bit more over the pax demand. Indeed a bit low.
Daveos:
The figures were very low at this time. After some research into my aviation library :) I found an excellent book which has this paragraph.
'In the first full year of peace after the war, the scheduled services by the world's airlines carried 18 million passengers, double the 1945 total, and in 1949 the total for the year was 27 million. For some time to come the passenger total was to double every five years' (Baldry, D - A History Of Aviation).
If this is true, which I would assume it is being in print, the total number of passengers worldwide in 1952 would have been around 45 million. This means in the game, we're effectively all fighting over London Heathrow's yearly total in 1993.
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