Its amazing how many failed aircraft succeed in AWS
swiftus27:
The title basically says it all. I am surprised to see how many of you use aircraft that utterly failed.
For instance the Fokker 70. There were only 47 made for sale plus the prototype. Im MT2, there are 234. 283 Fokker 100s were made in real life... 1587 are in service or for sale right now.
Ive seen the Dassault Mercure sell many times over.... despite only 12 ever being made.
There are so many other examples.
Sigma:
A lot of it has to do simply with the time and quantity of aircraft we're buying in-game... that and the margins we've got.
In real-life, a lot of planes simply came at the wrong time, when airlines weren't in need of that particular plane (or didn't realize they would be in the future) and when they did they were other offers.
The quantity of planes we're buying, and that all of us are buying at once, means we need to look to other models than simply the most popular ones because we're trying to procure thousands of aircraft per year.
In real-life profit margins are tiny compared to what we see in the game, this means buying just the right plane is a big deal. The issues the Mercure had would be deal-breakers in real-life, but here they're simply acceptable compromises.
Then there's the fact that frequency means more than anything else in this game, that pushes people towards buying more smaller planes, or even more larger ones, of a particular plane and putting more seats on a route than they would if their margins were a more realistic 5% rather than 40%.
Curse:
Also we have the magical future eye.
If a game world ends 1983 I know there will be no better prop aircraft as the NAMC-YS11 in the game.
I also know how my pax demand will increase in this time and I can plan how much the fuel prices will go for.
All this makes me to decide in another way than if I don't know what aircraft will be released and if the pax numbers will increase or decrease etc.
Also in real life (bigger) airlines get big discounts if they often buy at only one manufacturer etc. In AWS I have no advantage of running only a Boeing or Airbus fleet, so why not put some Fokker in there.
What you also can see for example;
- nobody real wants to use Concorde and Tu-144 8)
- B707 has only one advantage against DC-8, the runway requirement, and the B707-420 is the best variant because of the low fuel consumption ;D
AWS and real world are different, yes, but things in AWS repeat (as long as I play ;))
Daveos:
As mentioned above, it is a fascinating observation of how differently things can turn out with retrospect. Financial aspects are undoubtedly very different here, but I often wonder how different things would have been without the heavy influence of politics and rules and regulations in the real world.
There's a link to a fascinating article from the FT here - http://eucitizens.eu/Forum/index.php?topic=1797.0 that comments on the Japanese situation and airlines like El Al who are heavily in favour of Boeing products.
Airlines in AWS aren't subject to many geo-politicial factors, but as alluded to above this could perhaps be a future factor.
juanchopancho:
Saab 2000s, didn't sell much in the real world thanks to the ERJs. I love the Saab 2000s in AWS, I've bought over 80, all of them making a big chunk of change.
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