Very interesting to see, that the players of AirwaySim prefere the Airbus family to the Boeing family. If You count the aircraft in use and the aircraft on order, in both cases the Airbus is ahead in quantity. In reality, in 2000, Boeing was ahead of Airbus (considerably).
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Thomas
I figure it's attributable to a couple factors:
*the beta game has a strong presence from European players.
*we have the advantage of history to tell us that these were effective aircraft, whereas in the real world, Airbus was met with considerable initial skepticism.
*the beta game started in a time period during which Airbus was already well-established, meaning that the players are not maintaining 'legacy fleets' of older Boeing airframes, and they have no 'fleet inertia' (we'll stick with 737's because we have many earlier airframes already in service, and our pilots are already certified on them and we're just used to dealing with Boeing).
*no delivery lag issues caused by orders 'bottlenecks' if demand exceeds manufacturer capacity? Not sure on that one since I haven't seen the order/delivery system in action.
I may be a european player, but I weighed up the A319 and 737-700 with an unbiased opinion and decided that the A319 was better. The 737 had longer range and the A319 had better fuel consumption. But seeing as I didn't intend on flying any routes larger than 1500nm at thi time, the A319 was the obvious choice.
Can't really get very comprehensive results because there's a bug in the new a/c order system which needs a fix and this makes the delivery times a bit too fast ... So true answer after the next full game. ;)
Boeing all the way! and im European :D
Personally I first ordered 3xA319, but the production queue for airbus became longer and I switched to 737 and now I have 44 737s flying and those buses are leased out.
At the start of the game in the (very) long haul market Boeing could offer nothing that had enough range, so I could only go with A330/340s (43 now). 767-200ER hit a niche market and now I also have 10 of them flying thin long routes.
Later 744ER and 772LR offered enough range but they are very expensive and I already have those buses...