AirwaySim

So what is the biggest airline you have ever created on AWS. Mine is probably one of the smaller ones out there.

Airline Name: GlobalAirways
Game World: Beginners World #14
Number of Aircraft: 94
Aircraft Types:
  Airbus A319/A320/A321
  Airbus A330/A340
  Boeing 757
  Boeing 767
  DeHavlind Canada DHC-8 100/200/300
HQ: Chicago O'Hare
Bases:
  Boston-Logan
  Seattle-Tacoma
 

MT5
PacAir
726 aircraft + ~40 leased out
HQ: PEK
Bases: MFM, SHA, PVG
Fleet: ~350 737NG, ~200 E-Jets, ~180 787
Weekly revenue: $1.05 Billion
Weekly Profit: $340-$400 mil
CV: $71 Billion and climbing

My biggest was in MT 1, 2, or 3 (don't remember which).  I was based out of ATL and owned over 100 A380s...it was obscene.  That was back when you could have "magic carpets" and I had 100+ Dash-8's configed just for Business Class--I was raking it in.  It was also before the new base system and you could fly ABCBA routes.  I flew every route ATL-B-ORD-B-ATL so I actually had the top market share in both ATL and ORD.  Again, it was obscene.  Thankfully, the game has changed to make this impossible now.

See below some stats from MT5 based at ORD.  1,000+, large and very large aircraft.

My MT3 had about between 900 and 1000 aircraft as well, based at ATL.

Quote from: JumboShrimp on December 11, 2011, 11:03:07 PM
See below some stats from MT5 based at ORD.  1,000+, large and very large aircraft.

My MT3 had about between 900 and 1000 aircraft as well, based at ATL.

Jumbo......You're da man  :)

Tarem Aero was mine, fleet of 737's 757's and BAC111-475/500's. Based in Western Russia;

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Quote from: JumboShrimp on December 11, 2011, 11:03:07 PM
See below some stats from MT5 based at ORD.  1,000+, large and very large aircraft.

My MT3 had about between 900 and 1000 aircraft as well, based at ATL.

That has to be one of the best fleets I have ever seen :o It would be best, but you had 25 aircraft leased!

Quote from: Meicci on December 12, 2011, 06:31:48 PM
That has to be one of the best fleets I have ever seen :o It would be best, but you had 25 aircraft leased!

Thanks.  Still 9 months left in the game.  Non-owned is down to 17, and they are leased from our alliance member.  I have cash on hand to buy them....

I think mine would actually be an interesting one - it was in the original Modern Times (or Dawn of the Milennium, either one) and I was based in heavily competitive Taiwan (at the time, :laugh: ). I based in Taipei Songshan as "Asian CityJet" with a fleet of used MD90s and just built up a solid route structure over time. If everyone remembers "Blumage", I was his regional brand, so-to-speak. I had only 26 aircraft, all but 4 of them being bought but I believe (if I remember correctly) that my company value was in excess of $775 million USD, at one point only one position behind Blumage's airline, Asian Connection. Not bad, eh? Kaohsiung Connect was based in Kaohsiung, and two major airlines (including Asian Connection) were based in Taipei Taoyuan so I was forced to just keep to regional, and I didn't even fly to Taipei Taoyuan to give Blumage a monopoly on those routes. (in exchange he gave me his retiring MD90s for an extremely reduced price and stayed off my routes to allow me to prosper... was a good deal, actually :D)

My second one would be Vision Airways when I was based in Taiwan again (I wonder if there is a trend here.. :P) and I had a fleet of 130+  MRJ-90ERs and C-130s flying from Kaohsiung, Taipei Taoyuan and Taipei Songshan. I had everything perfectly planned out until I decided to expand rapidly in the international market - after the major airline out of TPE bk'd and gave me the opportunity to expand to replace him. That didn't work out so well, and I ended up bk'ing myself. :-[ But I decided that I was just going to expand in certain areas and not go past that (only certain international routes and whatnot). Then, nearing the end of the game, I thought "hey, why not expand big time... but not in terms of quantity of aircraft." So I went on a spending spree (taking out HUGE loans to cover the costs) and I ordered almost 20x A380-800s to fly from Taipei Taoyuan to the United States. I ended up flying to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, Honolulu, Houston, Dallas, Miami, Newark, New York JFK and I think Chicago, Atlanta and Washington IAD as well. Oh, and Calgary. It was the first time I used A380s, and they made me SO MUCH :o. That was all of my major airlines. ;D

Cheers,
Austin

MT5
Riyadh Airways:
Riyadh, Saudi-Arabia
65 A330/A340
2 A350 (on trial for MT6)
1 Cseries (on trial for MT6)
106 B757
97 ERJs
Totalling 271

CI 100
CV 8.7 Billion $
Weekly profit ±50 Million

Regards,

Dutch

Beginner's World 15
Royal Nigerian Airlines
Lagos, Nigeria

Should be 35 planes instead of 33 but the leases expired on two of my CRJs just as the game was ending and I ran out of money. Some years I'd have $40 million in the bank to buy brand new MD-80s while other years I was bleeding money and using those same planes as leverage to get insanely large loans to stay in business. It was strange because I stopped expanding at 35 planes and didn't change anything the last couple of years.

I flew to 59 airports in 40 countries including all 12 Nigerian airports and provided the only service to much of west Africa. The CRJs covered the routes too small for the MD-80s and the Fairchilds gave the most obscure airports in the game deep in the Sahara something to do. Two of the 747s went daily to Heathrow and a third carried pilgrims and oil executives to Saudi Arabia.


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DOTM...

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Turkishwings Hava Yollari (my only successful MT airline)
Game World: MT (the first MT scenario with the hub function)
Base Airports: Izmir
Fleet: 200+ E-Jets

Aeroflight Italia (my largest airline by aircraft numbers)
Game World: JA3
Base Airports: Rome Ciampino, Rome Fiumicino, Milan Malpensa and Verona
Fleet: 300+ Fokker F28s and several Tu-154's

Aero Chengdu
Game World: JA4
Base Airports: Chengdu, Shenzhen, Shanghao Hongqiao, Kungming
Fleet: 260 a/c (25x 737-200Adv, 130x F27-200, 105x F28-1000/3000/4000)

Turkishwings Hava Yollari
Game World: JA5
Base Airports: Izmir, Bodrum, Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen
Fleet: 244 a/c (26x An-24, 10x One-Eleven, 73 F-27s and 135 Tu-104A's) plus 215 on order (40x One-Eleven, 175x F28-1000)

MT5 for me  ;D

Small one, but my biggest this far:

Gameworld: Beginners World #14
Airline: Mikiclip Airways
Fleet: 17-20 (2 leased out)

• Airbus A320 series, about 12-15
• MD-83, 3 (2 leased out)
• MD-87, 5
• (Had Dash-7 but sold it)

HQ: LHR

Quote from: --miki-- on December 31, 2011, 09:20:36 PM
Small one, but my biggest this far:

Gameworld: Beginners World #14
Airline: Mikiclip Airways
Fleet: 17-20 (2 leased out)

• Airbus A320 series, about 12-15
• MD-83, 3 (2 leased out)
• MD-87, 5
• (Had Dash-7 but sold it)

HQ: LHR

I think that either before or after that you were a competitor of mine at Chicago O'Hare. I also think you only had about 10 or so aircraft. I had bigger competitors like Air Salminen (300+ A/C) and Choice International (100+ A/C).

Quote from: ARASKA on January 01, 2012, 12:39:32 AM
I think that either before or after that you were a competitor of mine at Chicago O'Hare. I also think you only had about 10 or so aircraft. I had bigger competitors like Air Salminen (300+ A/C) and Choice International (100+ A/C).

Yes, before that, in Beginners World #13.

How's the interface coping with airlines with 900+ planes ..?  As it really wasn't ever designed for such in mind.  :P

Quote from: --miki-- on December 31, 2011, 09:20:36 PM
Small one, but my biggest this far:

Gameworld: Beginners World #14
Airline: Mikiclip Airways
Fleet: 17-20 (2 leased out)

• Airbus A320 series, about 12-15
• MD-83, 3 (2 leased out)
• MD-87, 5
• (Had Dash-7 but sold it)

HQ: LHR

Jordan (aka Katie Price) wasn't always a 36DD, she wore a training bra once. We all got to start somewhere :) good luck

I had and airline in I think Jet Age 3 or 4, Florida West I believe it was.

Anyway, it was a decent airline:

Fleet- over 50
F28, DC-4's and 6's

Went belly up due to poor scheduling and expensive C-checks :laugh:.

My current airline in MT#6 is probably my best, Majestic Travelways:

27 currently in my fleet with 8 on order, 9 including used AC

3 757-200
9 MD-80 Series
15 Saab 2000

5 737-800 on order
3 757-200 on order
1 Saab 2000 about to be delivered

This is the first airline that I have not needed to restart in this game world.  Knock on wood, or head lol 8)

Quote from: sami on January 02, 2012, 06:55:25 PM
How's the interface coping with airlines with 900+ planes ..?  As it really wasn't ever designed for such in mind.  :P

There are a few things that could be more intuitive for managing large fleets (especially in 300+ fleets of the same type), and it really brings out all of the sorting bugs (that I keep forgetting to post bug reports about). I've found that my browser chokes on scheduling pages with much more than 30 planes per page on it, so I've gotten used to flipping around and using a workable naming convention so I usually know what I'm doing.

I think with a few added filters to the scheduling page (and perhaps to the my aircraft page at the same time), it could be a lot easier to manage. Incoming feature request....

you need just twenty theese, and you have the biggest airline )))

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Quote from: schro on January 03, 2012, 02:04:14 AM
There are a few things that could be more intuitive for managing large fleets (especially in 300+ fleets of the same type), and it really brings out all of the sorting bugs (that I keep forgetting to post bug reports about). I've found that my browser chokes on scheduling pages with much more than 30 planes per page on it, so I've gotten used to flipping around and using a workable naming convention so I usually know what I'm doing.

I think with a few added filters to the scheduling page (and perhaps to the my aircraft page at the same time), it could be a lot easier to manage. Incoming feature request....

Route sorting bug was still there (in MT5), if you schedule 7 day flights.  I reported a while ago (in MT3) I believe.  I think Sami checked it and it was just a timeout.  There are workarounds, to fliter route screen before sorting.

As far as naming, I name aircraft in descending order, so that the aircraft I ever deal with are always on top, (either no reg, or actual name I assign, which will still be on top due to descending order).

Scheduling - the same as above.  I use 7 or 10 aircraft on scheduling screen, the aircraft I deal with is on top, so I never deal with any more than 1 or 2 pages.  It does not really matter that may have another 50 or 100 pages after 1 or 2 pages of the scheduling screen...

Quote from: ICEcold on December 13, 2011, 04:00:50 PM
I think mine would actually be an interesting one - it was in the original Modern Times (or Dawn of the Milennium, either one) and I was based in heavily competitive Taiwan (at the time, :laugh: ). I based in Taipei Songshan as "Asian CityJet" with a fleet of used MD90s and just built up a solid route structure over time. If everyone remembers "Blumage", I was his regional brand, so-to-speak. I had only 26 aircraft, all but 4 of them being bought but I believe (if I remember correctly) that my company value was in excess of $775 million USD, at one point only one position behind Blumage's airline, Asian Connection. Not bad, eh? Kaohsiung Connect was based in Kaohsiung, and two major airlines (including Asian Connection) were based in Taipei Taoyuan so I was forced to just keep to regional, and I didn't even fly to Taipei Taoyuan to give Blumage a monopoly on those routes. (in exchange he gave me his retiring MD90s for an extremely reduced price and stayed off my routes to allow me to prosper... was a good deal, actually :D)

LOL honestly I don't even remember ever basing in Taipei. I've been too much on the Japanese Market that I forgot that I was moving around Asia. If I'm not wrong I'ven't based in Mainland China yet but something is telling me I've been in PVG before. Ahahahha that's the problem using the same airline name  for so many years!! Anyway my biggest airline was and is Asian Connection no matter where I base i have the thing for going global and big and of course some business skills to find partners and set up some strategies. Now any real life airline willing to hire me? ;)

Something always goes horribly wrong whenever I crack 40 planes although I am always based in unusual places like Nigeria, Libya and now the Soviet Union. I believe I have finally learned how to survive long term but demand limits my expansion as a Soviet domestic airline. I probably won't get much over 40 until the Iron Curtain drops. Currently at 30 with 1 on order.

My first time playing DOTM #4 and basing out of IAH, now I'm the biggest airline out of Houston with 50 planes and 87 on order 8)

My current airline in Beginner's World #17 is the biggest I've ever had. I've ventured into a couple of airlines in Jet Age this time around, but it became too time consuming running 2 airlines..and the Jet Age could have been huge out of HK.

My current airline Hobo Shuttle has 290 a/cs with another 50 currently on order.

96 - 737 (2 on order)
21 - 757 (10 on order)
40 - 767  (10 on order)
81 - Fokker 100 (20 on order)
13 - MD 11 (8 on order)
39 - DHC-8

I own 116. My base at Gatwick, is now the 2nd most congested airport after Heathrow.