Questions from a newb

[losgatitospeligrosos]

Question A) Started a route with 450 pax and no competition in beginner world #7. Flying with 100 person plane. Created a route to fly in the morning, 6 am and 8:30 return flight. Hit the button to create a similar route and set that one to fly at 11 with return at 1:30. Result, two flights with lf of 30. Canceled 2nd frequency and lf went up to 70 on the first flight immediately. What's up with that? How can you successfully use more than 1x a day routes without killing load?

Question B) If you have a route and someone comes in after you're on it but your combined capacities don't exceed pax, how badly will your lf get hurt?

Question C) Is flying routes out of large domestic airports to cities with 100-150ish pac with 100-125 seat planes a viable strategy? Reading around the forum suggests that commuter and regional flights don't work. Is, say, Colorado Springs to Kansas City, with, lets say, 120 PAX, a possible money maker once your airline scales?

Wonderful game, Sami. Getting forward to flying with all of you.

[Talentz]

Hello there.


1.) That doesn't make too much sense... perhaps your leaving out some details.. could you post a screen shot so we can take a look? Also, its that 450 daily pax avg or did you add up all the demand from each day to get a total demand?

2.) It depends on a couple of things. Frequencies, CI, RI, type of aircraft, time of day, price.  If all those are in your favor, it wont effect you too much...

3.) Yes, sounds ok. Though shoot for a bit over estimated demand. So.. 130 avg = 150 seat aircraft. So you can "grow" the route. Also, it depends on your route strategy. Having avg 150+ pax demand on your routes is great... but that means 1x daily and the route is full... flying to 3,4 5 different cities with 1 aircraft will get you killed by marketing costs. Also, flying long and thin routes wont bring in enough income to pay all of your expenses. You have to try and find a balance between flying multiple cities and distance between them.


I wont lie, it will be tough for what seems like forever. Just keep at it and explore/test different things. It will all come to together in short time


Good luck.


Talentz

[Sami]

return flight. Hit the button to create a similar route and set that one to fly at 11 with return at 1:30. Result, two flights with lf of 30. Canceled 2nd frequency and lf went up to 70 on the first flight immediately. What's up with that? How can you successfully use more than 1x a day routes without killing load?

This seems to be one old bug that has appeared again. I thought it was fixed but apparantly some other change brought it back.. Have to check it later on.

[yevgeniy]

I have to say this is happening to me.

When a new route is opened, if there are exactly two flights (whether 2 or 1 plane), it refuses to get beyond 0 RI.

Cancelling it, and scheduling a new flight does not work unless I wait 1 game day between.

Also seemingly this bug happens not based on scheduling the same day, but based on initial flights happening the same day (so if I schedule the flight on two different days, but the plane comes in a week later, and starts flying at the same day the bug happens).

I have to say this is getting really annoying to the point almost rendering the pre-airplane arrival scheduling feature worthless.

Sami, anything you can do about this bug, or just something we have to live with, and if so would you be able to tell us the scenario(s) under which it happens, that way we could avoid it.

[Sami]

Didn't really understand the issue, can you post a bug report with as much details as you have. And step-by-step examples on what you did for me to test it.

(RI raises from 0 -> 100 in about 8-10 months, so it will stay at 0 for a while)