OnyxWingman

On 1/23/2024 at 8:37 PM, sviridovt said:

I mean it's in your interest to do that regardless to make sure that planes keep flying (indeed this is what real airlines do), however if you wish to keep planes stationed (say overnight) just make sure that you either own the terminal or lease the gate that it's staying in since those gates are charged a flat fee rather than a per minute one. 

Thanks! That will be useful for me.

23 hours ago, sviridovt said:

Yeah, I think it was something to do with your browser not recognizing the certificate and intercepting the response. I'd be willing to bet money that the request actually went through and it was the response that got intercepted. Either way glad you're enjoying the game! 

Yep! IMO in some ways it's better than Airlines Manager, because it's more active.

16 hours ago, sviridovt said:

Your revenue is number of pax * price of the ticket (plus whatever IFE you have this might bring some income). The costs of your flights do not depend on the price so may be discounted for this discussion. The default price is slightly lower than the median of what the willingness to pay is, such that with that price you should be able to capture about 80-90% of the demand, if you want to capture 100% you'll have to lower prices, similarly if you capture less of a demand, you may increase prices to generate more revenue per passenger. 

Further consideration is which passengers you're capturing, for example if your aircraft has 2 or more classes, it's possible to see that pricing your economy class might drive passengers away from business class as you have excess capacity in economy from lower cost pax opting to not fly (admittely there is no mechanic in the sim to say that if the prices are similar enough some passengers will opt to 'spoil themselves' and upgrade, this is covered in my plans for demand redesign). In this scenario, you might have passengers who are willing to pay a premium price but would still opt for the cheapest option, as you price people out of economy those folks will buy an economy ticket rather than a business class which may also decrease your revenue. Essentially it's important to remember that the passengers are 'fluid', and do not attach themselves to a particular class just as in real life your business class competes with your premium economy class and economy class etc. 

As for an ideal formula, there isn't a mathematical formula that I'm aware of, and while I'm sure that it exists, I try hard to make sure that there isn't a hard and fast way to 'win' the system. I aim for realism with the sim so want to keep some variability to keep things interesting. 

Thank you. I found out that I was also using too much flights, reducing amount of flights increases demand, therefore more PAX for the same ticket price.

My airline, Aer Lingus, is a full economy airline from Dublin. Anyways, I was playing around with my ticket price. As I lowered it, more profit was being made from more people. Once I hit about $365 for a price, the PAX was not at its max value, I lowered it to like $360 and it tanked from $37,709 to about $11,000.

Is there a way to calculate the ideal ticket price? I always thought it was when you got the full PAX, but it seems not.

On 1/21/2024 at 1:49 AM, sviridovt said:

It does that if the server response either crashes or doesn't receive a response but I'd be curious to see why it says not secure, I'm guessing there is some kind of certificate validation issue. I have validated that the certificate is correct so I'm guessing it's something with how your browser is validating it. Can you check that you're on the latest version of Chrome? Also does the same not secure message appear in your other windows? 

It's been a few days, haven't been here, and now the "Not secure" has disappeared. It now works! And I have $50K in my Aer Lingus airline!
I initially didn't like this game because it was complicated, but great job, it's super fun.

Nice!

So you're saying that I should completely fill my schedule? Like, I mean, not just keep routes minimally spaced together but fill out the whole entire day?

After I save a flight, (DUB/LBG then from LBG/DUB), I press save and it just loads a long time. Never actually saves it. It worked before, I don't know what's up. Restarted my computer, didn't help. I'm sure it's not an error, made an error with this bug and it caught me. I don't know what to do, I can't schedule right now. I tried it out with CDG, Oslo, many other airports and no luck.

@sviridovt@GARY Slot rental, how should I prevent this? Am I able to buy a gate or a slot, and are gates and slots both the same thing?
Also, maybe I shouldn't start at LAX, DFW, or SEA, like I was. Any ideas of beginner-friendly airports that can help get me going?

On 1/18/2024 at 8:56 AM, sviridovt said:

Arcade world is over, hence why you can't do anything. I will reset it to Arcade I in a little bit but wanted to give it some time since World B just reset as well for spacing purposes. 

1. Yeah, currently that's the way I have it set up. I do plan to make it possible to do an immediate configuration change for a (significantly) higher fee. 

2. Do you get an error? That should work even in paused world. 

I didn't get any error saying it was done, but yeah, hope you reset it.

I think you should make a third, unlimited world. Because when B IX ends, then our airline will also end. It would be nice to go on forever, expanding and conquering the world.

I was earning $250K a day in the B IX world. Overnight, I somehow went debt? Even though my earnings are positive? Here is my expense report, it seems as if I am paying a ton of money for the gate rental slots. I don't know what that means, but for someone who is earning ~250k per day, that will surely put me in debt. Any way to overcome this? Also, should I start a new airline, or keep this one and try to get out of debt?

I'm new to this game. But, I have an airline in the Arcade world. It looks like it's Jan 6, 2040 and the world expires in 2040? So does that mean it's ended? It's been a day and my route says like $2M or something weekly, but I didn't get that money. Also, date didn't change.

Also, two other questions.

1. Tried to change the seatmap, it needed a C or D check. That is in like 9 years, can't wait that long.
2. Can't delete an airline.