Currently, Company Score is calculated using these variables (according to Sami’s post):
“The score is calculated based on the basic statistics, and it includes the following values: Pre-tax profit, Operating revenue, Profit margin, Airline image, Transported pax (since start), Airline age, Credit rating, Fleet size, Fleet utilization, Fleet age, Fleet condition, Fuel burn per passenger, Route ASK, Route RPK, Route LF, Punctuality, Number of weekly flights, Number of airports served. These stats have been chosen since they represent a broad selection of all the possible stats, but leaving out some stats that are duplicates (like pax YTD / pax all-time) or could be easily manipulated in the short term (number of staff for example).”
I believe some of these variables need to be changed or removed from the calculation.
1) Transported pax (since start) - While it’s a good measure, it heavily favors airlines that started on day one. What about other players who joined a few days later? Or even mid game? It’s almost impossible to catch up. We already have Transported pax (Year-to-date), which reflects how many passengers an airline has carried this year. This is fair to everyone. Why not replace Transported pax (since start) with this?
2) Airline age - I personally don’t think the age of an airline says much besides... well how old the airline is. That’s not a measure of how “good” or successful an airline is. This should be removed from the calculation.
3) Fuel Burn per passenger - As JumboShrimp pointed out on many occasions, this should be changed to Fuel Burn per mile/km to better reflect the fuel efficiency. An airline flying mostly long-haul will undoubtedly lose to a regional airline in terms of Fuel Burn per passenger.
In addition, I believe cargo stats are not being calculated into Company Score. This puts cargo only airlines at a huge disadvantage. We have the stats for cargo, why not implement them into the score?