A Different Airline Management Game

[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.