Medium/Large/Very Large Aircraft

[Ilyushin]

When is an aircraft considered either of those?

Because I kind of disagree with the IL-62 being a very large aircraft. It doesn't have so much capacity, and compared to the 747/777 it is quite small.

[Sigma]

In the case of the IL-62, I believe it's the Range that pushes it over.

A "large" plane in AWS is actually pretty small -- many planes are only about 120 seats or so.  So the VLA category is quite large and encompasses a very wide range of aircraft.  The point of that particular feature of the game was to reduce the margins on dense and/or long-haul routes and increase the margins of thin and/or short-haul ones, but primarily for the benefit of the smaller aircraft, which is why the system is designed with more granularity at that level because margins are super-tight and the difference in pilot pay when you're moving 25pax or 50pax or 100pax can be all the difference between profit and loss -- whereas that's not the case at all on larger aircraft where pilot salary is a fairly small percentage of your expense.

You're never going to make a few categories fit every plane model perfectly.  But given the option of having it in either the 737 category of aircraft or the next one up, I'd say it fits better in the next category up.

[ucfknightryan]

The one that always makes me scratch my head is the B717.  I believe every other 100 seat aircraft is considered a medium aircraft, but that one's a large aircraft    Yeah it's got more range than most of them, but not all of them.  Is it just because the others are all part of families with smaller aircraft?

[Sigma]

The one that always makes me scratch my head is the B717.  I believe every other 100 seat aircraft is considered a medium aircraft, but that one's a large aircraft    Yeah it's got more range than most of them, but not all of them.  Is it just because the others are all part of families with smaller aircraft?

Yeah, without looking at them myself, I'm sure that's what it is.  You can't segregate a fleet, so an F100 will be in the same family as an F70, though it quite a bit larger.

[Ilyushin]

Alright, makes perfect sense. Thanks.