Hey guys- I've never played "The Jet Age" before and am thinking about giving it a try.. My question- it starts in the 1950's where there were no hubs and spokew and airlines flew all their routes point to point... How do you simulate that in AirwaySim where you can only fly to and from your 'base' airport?? Also an airport like KMCO that was pretty much non-existant in the 1950's and 1960's- (before Disney opened)... does it have any traffic until the 1971??? Thanks for any insight into this.. CHuck
It starts with the release of the 707/Comet ...
traffic is modeled off of a more recent year (don't ask me which one) and is scaled backwards. I can't say for certain MCO wasn't held aside as a special case or not, though.
Airwaysim does not allow ABCBA routes right now but has in the past. Now you're allowed to open bases up to a certain number. You're literally forced into the hub-and-spoke model.
Thanks Swiftus.. On KMCO- I was living near it in the early '70's and it didn't even have regularly scheduled airline service until Delta in 1971... Guess I'll just have to wait and see how AirwaySim handles it..
The traffic of early scenarios is scaled back from modern numbers. It would be impossible task to find out the different traffic distributions and airport datas generally speaking for ~3000 airports globally for the last 70 years or so. Instead we have one hard point of data for each airport and then some global metrics (and in the future country specific data) that are used to scale the data between years.
So the short answer is that MCO has good demand in JA if you are thinking of basing there.
Get into a big airport as soon as you can and establish yourself. The game will take along time to show results, but the bigger the airport the better off you'll be. MCO is not a good idea. :)