Is there a way to preplan my routes, that won't cost me anything? It seems that when I try to preplan a route, I'm immediately being charged for slots and all the regular costs. I would like to preplan a route, then basically set it aside and then when a plane becomes available to me, boom I can activate it, or it activates itself and it all goes into affect. Right now, it seems that I have to wait until I get my plane, then do my routes, but if I can't get to my computer when my plane is available, basically it sits on the ramp until I can get to it to assign the routes. Now I'm looking at, say I go to bed, and my plane comes available to me like 2 hours later, then I get up 8 hours later, I've had my plane sitting for like 12 days before I can do anything with it. Does something like this exist in this game, because I'm not seeing it? thanks.
You can preschedule routes to your aircraft 3 weeks before they are delivered. You can do this by creating the routes, then adding them to the aircraft the same way you add rotues to an airplane you already have. The airplane is visible in the Routes - Schedule - window 3 weeks before delivery.
If you assign the routes to the planes pre-delivery then you start paying staffing charges.
You can schedule everything nearly 2 months out from plane delivery, but be careful not to lose your slots...
Thanks for the comments, but that is exactly what I'm trying to avoid. paying people for standing around doing nothing. lol. It's what the airline I work for does. So there is no way to do this without costs incurring before the plane actually arrives?
Hi,
If you don't want to pay the staff cost, create the route (1 month before is fair, but no more because you oversecure slots >:( ) and don't scheduled it to the airplane. The result is that you only pay for the slots until the routes are flown.
When the plane is delivered, or a few days before you can then scheduled the routes to the airplane. I usually do it after tuesday if the plane got delivered at the end of the week because salary are paid on tuesday at around 11 am.
Hope it helps :P