I'm happy to see the lounges are back up and running! My lounges are all running deficits though. Is this the same for anyone else? How can we increase income for the lounges? I've increased the number of business and first class passengers to/from the airports with lounges, but it doesn't seem to have any effect on the profit of the lounge. Also, the lounges are listed as expenses on each route. Why is that?
Thank you for all the work you're putting into this game!
Running deficit? Welcome to running a real airline!
Here is how it works ...
1. B/F passengers on a flight with a lounge will have $100 each removed from the flight revenue for their lounge access, this should be able to be recouped as lounge adjacent routes can have a small increase in B/F prices.
2. All of this then shows up as Lounge Income in the office screen
3. All B/F lounge visitors also incur a $50 fee to the lounge owner for supplies
4. Plus the lounge upkeep costs
All this together in the best of situations should come out close to even, kinda like the real world. But to fully answer your question .. yes
I'm running close to a 400k a week loss on mine from the balance sheet .. but several routes I was able to increase my pricing slightly and make it close to a net 0