A Different Airline Management Game

[heeshung]

A while back, http://www.airlineempires.net was posted here. But registration problems with them got me frustrated. I got hooked on that kind of game, so I tried searching for a similar site. Now my registration for http://www.airlineempires.net has been straightened out, but in the meantime, I've discovered http://www.airlinemogul.com Airline Mogul seems to be a lot more intuitive and more logical, and I highly favor Airline Mogul over Airline Empires. It is in Euros, however, but I got used to it after a while.

They recently launched multiworlds, and I'm currently in World 3. World 3 is set back in the 1960's and 1970's.

The name of my airline is NexxJet Airways.


http://www.airlinemogul.com

[JetBlueAirwaysFan]

I just joined last week. Same world. Look for Liberty Airlines. That's me.

[stuart schechter]

I am Eos Air, in world 3, as a cargo out of HPN

[heeshung]

Great, hope to have some friendly competition! JetBlueAirwaysFan, I got your message, and same to you.

Good luck with your airlines!

[nwafan20]

I have been playing for a few days now, World 4, Northwest Air International. I now have 4 planes, 3 CASA C212-300, and 1 DHC-3 Beaver.

Running DTW-CLT and DTW-MDW (2 gates at DTW, 1 at CLT and MDW)

Monthly Operating Profit is €2,587,947

[heeshung]

World 3

NexxJet Airways

Fleet:

2 Argosy 671 Commuter
4 Boeing 707-320B (1 on order)
5 CASA C207 Azor
1 Convair 990
2 DHC-6-100
1 DHC-6-300
9 Douglas DC-7C (6 on order)
17 Fairchild Hiller F-227B (4 on order)
24 NAMC YS-11A-200 (4 on order)
1 Pilatus PC-6/340-H2 (Leased out)

Daily Operating Profit: 16,571,552
Airline Value: 2,529,005,295

Monthly Operating Profit: 255,991,394
Total Operating Revenue: 414,535,057
Total Operating Costs: 158,543,663

Just opened up a new base at Honolulu for some Asian routes.

[stuart schechter]

Just hit the 500 on the ranking, thats dirt compared to your #49 Heeshung. But then again, i've been playing for just over 24 hours.

[heeshung]

AM is an exponential game. And you've just moved up another spot. Multiworlds, as they call it, is not that old, believe it or not. Their beta testing ended in the beginning of April, and multiworlds commenced about a week and a half after that.

Leasing aircraft is a great way to get your airline off the ground.

[JetBlueAirwaysFan]

Yeah, that's how I've been starting.

[JetBlueAirwaysFan]

I just joined the Airline Alliance Group (W3). I will not launch service into Europe until I can get an Aircraft to cross the Atlantic, but I have options!

[nwafan20]

I've expanded a little bit. I don't like to lease aircraft so I am just buying them:

Northwest Air International - NWI

Daily Operating Profit: €272,175
Monthly Operating Profit: €3,698,537
Airline Value: €9,839,122

Fleet: 6 CASA C212-300's

Routes:

DTW-CLT (9x daily)
DTW-MDW (10x daily)
DTW-CLE (2.5 daily)
DTW-MSP (7x daily)

[heeshung]

You're not going to get far with frequencies higher than one, unless the airports are really close together. I suggest you take those frequencies down to one and use the extra time to expand to other airports.

By the way, nwafan20, is that N661US in your avatar? I hope it is; I have a weird personal attraction and longing for that plane.

Hmm, that sounded strange... :P

[nwafan20]

Ok, I will try that.

And I do believe it is 661 actually.

[JetBlueAirwaysFan]

My DOP finally hit EUR 900,000. I have had some financial woes, so what I have done was increase the airfares. It also will cost you EUR 50 to buy alcohol on my airline. Doesn't that sound familiar in the real world?

[stuart schechter]

Eos went through a little bit of a restructuring...

True Blue Air - TBL

Daily Operating Profit: €278,447
Monthly Operating Profit: €3,774,658
Airline Value: €7,765,903

Fleet: 3x DHC-6-300
Sky Blue
Big Blue
Too Blue for you

Routes:

LGA To the Following
DTW (.5)
CLE (2)
YYZ (1)
ORD (1)
IAD (4)
BOS (5)
CLT (3)

I have done all of the other calculations and with these Frequencies, I am turning out the best DOP.

[heeshung]

I finally inaugurated service to Sydney via Honolulu. I have 4 more DC-7C's on order and a 707-320B. I now fly to all 6 inhabited continents.

I also added Las Vegas-Barcelona and New York JFK-Honolulu.

DOP: €19,538,358
Airline Value: €3,856,205,459

Fleet:
Airplane Quantity

Argosy 671 Commuter 2
Boeing 707-320B 7
CASA C207 Azor 5
Convair 990 1
DHC-6-100 2
DHC-6-300 1
Douglas DC-7C 28
Fairchild Hiller FH-227B 25
NAMC YS-11A-200 31
NAMC YS-11A-500 1
Pilatus PC-6/340-H2 1

[nwafan20]

Well, I have expanded into two worlds now (3 and 4).

Running about a 2,000,000 DOP in each.

[heeshung]

I've been thinking about naming my planes, although I haven't the slightest idea what I should name them. I could always go with cities, but it'd be cooler if I could do what JetBlue did with their aircraft names. Except nothing goes well with NexxJet Airways. With almost 125 planes in my fleet, this may take a while.

Any ideas?

[JetBlueAirwaysFan]

I've expanded my airline two operate from three of its own hubs now (alliance routes include four other bases): New York-JFK (home base), Oklahoma City, and Modesto. I had a huge expansion project out of Oklahoma City, and now I plan to get some planes to do an expansion out of Modesto. Hopefully I can reach Honolulu by mid 1972 (game time). I am now operating at a DOP of over 2,000,000.

[nwafan20]

Well I have expanded into world 3 now, so I operate in 2 worlds:

World 4:
DOP: €3,445,560
Airline Value: €97,492,742

Hubs:
DTW
CLT

37 destinations from DTW
18 destinations from CLT

55 routes alltogether

Fleet:
3 CASA C212-300
8 Boeing 737-500 (leased)
2 Boeing 737-500 (owned)

Right now I am going through replacing leased aircraft with owned ones to lower costs.

World 3:
DOP: €1,515,293
Airline Value: €150,047,615

Hubs:
DTW

28 destinations

Fleet:
2 DHC-6-300
2 Boeing 737-200 Adv (1 on order)

Goal right now is to expand.

[JetBlueAirwaysFan]

My DOP is approaching 3,000,000. How do you make the euro sign?

[heeshung]

Hey, JetBlueAirwaysFan, Stuart and I were thinking about starting an alliance anew; how would you feel? I joined AAG for the heck of it because my last alliance accepted me but got too lazy to accept me in-game, so I got tired of waiting.

How would you feel about a brand-new alliance? And if you're up for it, I need name suggestions.

[stuart schechter]

Fleet Upgrades in progress!

Argosy 671 Commuter 1
Boeing 737-200 Adv 1
DHC-6-300 3
Fokker F27-400 2
HS-748E 1
Nord 260 Super Broussard 1
Timmins Super Catalina 1

DOP €1,777,316
Airline Value €95,244,164

Flying to 29 destinations, but that will change at 11pm tonight when I recieve shipment of my new 732-adv!

[heeshung]

I have €860,076,152 in cash, and I have absolutely no clue what to spend it on. New planes? Maybe. I could use a couple more 707-320B's. But I've been lazy recently, and I have a couple F-227's and YS-11's and a 707 that's been sitting idle for the past 3 days, since I haven't taken the time to create routes for it.

I'm feeling generous, so if anyone needs a broker with a negative percentage, I'd be happy providing small gifts.

[stuart schechter]

I could always use gifts! PM me.

[JetBlueAirwaysFan]

I am having horrible financial troubles. Any ideas?

[heeshung]

Make sure all your loadfactors are above 95%, and check your projected profits. If necessary, terminate routes with a lot of competition, and choose smaller airports with cheaper gates. Lastly, use either 0.5 or 1 as a frequency. Anything above that is suicide. You'll get more money using the extra free time from the lower frequency on other routes.

[JetBlueAirwaysFan]

Okay, I have dropped a lot of routes (my alliance routes) and some crappy US routes. I am also starting to redeploy aircraft out of JFK rather than focus on my new hubs. I guess I just have to wait now.

[heeshung]

I'd be happy to broker some aircraft for you at negative rates...

[JetBlueAirwaysFan]

Too Late, I am Ceasing Operations...hopefully it will be temporary.

[JetBlueAirwaysFan]

Temporary it is, Liberty Airlines is back up and running.