How to competing in Long routes?

[Jackson4c]

Hi All,

I already played Beginner's Worlds in Europe. Learned the lesson focus on low fuel consumption models and buy smaller planes with more turns as prepare for competition in the <3000NM range.
I know need to have 7 day schedule for longer ranges, but what is makes extra difficult you are unable competing with players who is arrived first. The routes seized by the first player who reach those site already. So like a time battle now. If I arrive later (collect the money in the shorter routes to able buy 7qty of long range planes) then most of the routes already occupied. And because of the plane capacity unable to fight for site if just the 50% of the plane could be filled.
Could you have any method how to build long routes if those already filled in?

I can not realize how players competing in longer games example where start at 1950 and you join example 5-7 years later.

[gazzz0x2z]

Overall, you need to find a weak spot. A starting airport where the local is not too strong. By being better, you'll push competition outside and get the place. But it works only if locals are doing mistakes.

[Tuckernut]

Another way is to compete with price. If the competition is flying CDG-JFK with an A330 departing at 1400, you add your flight departing at 1100 for 5-10% less and add a targeted advertising campaign of everything except television for about six weeks. Targeted ads work really well. Sometimes a target ad campaign using only television for a short amount of time will work well but it is expensive.

[NZelenkova]

As a rule ultra long haul is extremely high risk, extremely high reward. If you start off trying to do it you are probably going to be depending on one or two planes with as many routes and they take a long time to start filling up. That's why for my first real airline after beginner's world I found a quiet place in Nigeria to run turboprops. After a couple of years I graduated to narrow body jets and started reaching the fringes of Europe. Only then did I have the money for L-1011s to start playing the big leagues. I was doing so well at that point I bought a bunch of 8 seat Fairlchild Metros to connect all the little African airports without much concern for the profitability. I also got invited to one of the major alliances. Starting in an easier lower risk niche might be the better way to get started successfully, it's absolutely cut-throat in the really big airports with some seriously seasoned players. I personally recommend finding a lesser known country with a lot of domestic airports.