Your Biggest Airline

[schro]

How's the interface coping with airlines with 900+ planes ..?  As it really wasn't ever designed for such in mind. 

There are a few things that could be more intuitive for managing large fleets (especially in 300+ fleets of the same type), and it really brings out all of the sorting bugs (that I keep forgetting to post bug reports about). I've found that my browser chokes on scheduling pages with much more than 30 planes per page on it, so I've gotten used to flipping around and using a workable naming convention so I usually know what I'm doing.

I think with a few added filters to the scheduling page (and perhaps to the my aircraft page at the same time), it could be a lot easier to manage. Incoming feature request....

[sergio]

you need just twenty theese, and you have the biggest airline )))

[JumboShrimp]

There are a few things that could be more intuitive for managing large fleets (especially in 300+ fleets of the same type), and it really brings out all of the sorting bugs (that I keep forgetting to post bug reports about). I've found that my browser chokes on scheduling pages with much more than 30 planes per page on it, so I've gotten used to flipping around and using a workable naming convention so I usually know what I'm doing.

I think with a few added filters to the scheduling page (and perhaps to the my aircraft page at the same time), it could be a lot easier to manage. Incoming feature request....

Route sorting bug was still there (in MT5), if you schedule 7 day flights.  I reported a while ago (in MT3) I believe.  I think Sami checked it and it was just a timeout.  There are workarounds, to fliter route screen before sorting.

As far as naming, I name aircraft in descending order, so that the aircraft I ever deal with are always on top, (either no reg, or actual name I assign, which will still be on top due to descending order).

Scheduling - the same as above.  I use 7 or 10 aircraft on scheduling screen, the aircraft I deal with is on top, so I never deal with any more than 1 or 2 pages.  It does not really matter that may have another 50 or 100 pages after 1 or 2 pages of the scheduling screen...

[blumage]

I think mine would actually be an interesting one - it was in the original Modern Times (or Dawn of the Milennium, either one) and I was based in heavily competitive Taiwan (at the time, ). I based in Taipei Songshan as "Asian CityJet" with a fleet of used MD90s and just built up a solid route structure over time. If everyone remembers "Blumage", I was his regional brand, so-to-speak. I had only 26 aircraft, all but 4 of them being bought but I believe (if I remember correctly) that my company value was in excess of $775 million USD, at one point only one position behind Blumage's airline, Asian Connection. Not bad, eh? Kaohsiung Connect was based in Kaohsiung, and two major airlines (including Asian Connection) were based in Taipei Taoyuan so I was forced to just keep to regional, and I didn't even fly to Taipei Taoyuan to give Blumage a monopoly on those routes. (in exchange he gave me his retiring MD90s for an extremely reduced price and stayed off my routes to allow me to prosper... was a good deal, actually )

LOL honestly I don't even remember ever basing in Taipei. I've been too much on the Japanese Market that I forgot that I was moving around Asia. If I'm not wrong I'ven't based in Mainland China yet but something is telling me I've been in PVG before. Ahahahha that's the problem using the same airline name  for so many years!! Anyway my biggest airline was and is Asian Connection no matter where I base i have the thing for going global and big and of course some business skills to find partners and set up some strategies. Now any real life airline willing to hire me?

[Troxartas86]

Something always goes horribly wrong whenever I crack 40 planes although I am always based in unusual places like Nigeria, Libya and now the Soviet Union. I believe I have finally learned how to survive long term but demand limits my expansion as a Soviet domestic airline. I probably won't get much over 40 until the Iron Curtain drops. Currently at 30 with 1 on order.

[lunchbox]

My first time playing DOTM #4 and basing out of IAH, now I'm the biggest airline out of Houston with 50 planes and 87 on order

[knutm1980]

My current airline in Beginner's World #17 is the biggest I've ever had. I've ventured into a couple of airlines in Jet Age this time around, but it became too time consuming running 2 airlines..and the Jet Age could have been huge out of HK.

My current airline Hobo Shuttle has 290 a/cs with another 50 currently on order.

96 - 737 (2 on order)
21 - 757 (10 on order)
40 - 767  (10 on order)
81 - Fokker 100 (20 on order)
13 - MD 11 (8 on order)
39 - DHC-8

I own 116. My base at Gatwick, is now the 2nd most congested airport after Heathrow.