Second European base

[Trent900]

Hi all,

Is there any way at all of making a second base? Slots have completely dried up at my home airport which has made european expansion now near enough impossible. Does the number of slots at airports increase as the game progresses?

D.

[Brockster]

Over time (I think), the slots should open up. But not anywhere near enough to rely on.

You could try to use the W route system (I think that's what it's called... Although I see it more of as a V).

Here's an example:

Instead of flying from LAX-DEN, I could fly LAX-DEN-SFO-DEN-LAX. Hope that makes sense! You can use the additional leg allowed when planning a route to create a secondary hub-- it's not easy, but it's possible.

[Trent900]

Hi Brockster,

Thanks for the reply. I've already got 2 routes running like that but I'm starting to get slot issues even then   

Will study my route map and see what I can muster. May have to start Long haul services   


D. 

intereuro

[bukatino2000]

slots at each airport do not increase with the time.
You can build A-B-C-B-A legs as currently a second hub is not implemented. We hope it will be the pearl in the next version  . check the forum for further information on that issue

[Brockster]

You sure about that? I remember sami saying something about that.. Could be wrong but I kind of remember Denver International Airport in game 3 getting slow increases every so often.

And slots are the takeoff slots, and if we are accurate the word 'capacity' actually includes departures and arrivals, but we're only counting the departures here for the sake of simplicity. So if you read somewhere that airport has '100 movements per hour capacity', then it should be close to 50 in AWS. And the system also increases/reduces the number of slots based on the game year, with the assumption that previously ATC procedures, radars and such have not been so sophisticated as today. So this number 50 would be around 40 in 1990s games actually.  (all in all ... number of slots in AWS is actually some 10-40% higher than in reality, depending on the airport .. but the lack of slots is not supposed to be the main limiting factor here)