Airline Club

Perhaps it can come with a set of rules. Let's say:

- Any city that has hosted the Olympics once cannot host it again, it's banned for life.
- Any city that ends up in the pool cannot be nominated again for the next round, but can be nominated for rounds after that.
- Airlines are not allowed to nominate the same city twice in a row, regardless if they end up in the poll or not. For each round they must nominate a different city than the previous round.
- Airlines are not allowed to nominate any city in which they have a base.

Or if you like the current randomized system better, why not make a hybrid? Let's say 4 out of the 6 poll options are from nominations and the other 2 are randomly picked by the system.

I've rebuilt my airline and reestablished a base in an airport where I had a base before. From the base that I had there before, I had a huge number of slots at this airport. Of course after the rebuild I've restarted my most important routes, but there were still a lot left that I couldn't restart immediately. They had to wait.

Now that I wanted to continue rebuilding my airline and setting up routes that I hadn't set up earlier, I found that at the airport where I previously had hundreds of available slots, that number has suddenly dropped to zero. It seems like I've fallen out of grace because I've rebuilt my airline.

Is the game taking away slots too easily? It seems like it. Slots are too hard to gain and too easy to lose. How can I re-earn those slots if I'm not allowed to expand?

I agree with this suggestion.

Currently when I'm investigating a route, I look it up on GCmap to see it's distance. This has the disadvantage that GCmap shows the distance in miles while the game uses kilometers, so I have to convert miles into kilometers first. Then I sort the planes by range and draw a line at the route distance so I can pick the best plane below the line.

Seems to work fine in Microsoft Edge, but doesn't work in Firefox.

True, and Tegel will be closed shortly.

However from what I understood, it's not easy implementing such changes in the game. The game world is static where the real world is dynamic. Airports opening, closing and changing is part of that dynamic world that we don't have in the game.

Hopefully in V2 the game will allow for these kind of changes, the current game version doesn't.

I have some suggestions for V2.

Improved second hand aircraft market

Right now if you want to sell an aircraft you just click "sell" and you got the money immediately. It's a fixed amount, no negotiation possible. Same if you want to buy a second-hand aircraft. I thought this could be done better by making it a real market. In other words, if you got an aircraft you want to sell you can put it on a list against a certain proposed price. Other airlines can then view the aircraft as available for sale. They can either accept the proposed price, or they can make a bid. If they accept the proposed price, they get the aircraft immediately. If they make a bid, the selling airline can either accept or deny that bid. If the selling airline accepts, the plane is sold for the bid price. It's a way for buying airlines to get the plane cheaper, but with less certainty and they have to wait until the selling airline makes a decision. Meanwhile, accepting a bid is a way for the selling airline to sell the plane faster but for less money.

Sell airline

Just like selling a second-hand aircraft, you should also be able to sell an entire airline. Right now if you want to start over you just click "declare bankruptcy" or "rebuild airline". Your entire airline is gone and you get the money, all in an instant. Convenient, but less realistic. So my proposal is that you can offer your airline for sale in the same way as a second-hand aircraft. If another airline buys it, the entire fleet and route network is merged into the buying airline. The selling airline gets whatever amount of money was agreed on in the negotiation process. Overlapping hubs are merged, the home base of the selling airline is converted into a hub.

Split out service level

Right now the service level is just a number, it can't be specified any further. It's meaningless. However how much fun would it be if you can split it out, decide on what exactly you offer on your flights and for which price. You can decide on luggage allowance for example, do you offer free checked luggage or do you charge for it? And how much? As for the virtual passengers, some will travel with checked luggage and some without. This influences their choice of airline. Also, do you provide free food and drinks on board or do you have a buy-on-board program? What exactly do you provide your passengers with? What prices do you charge? Again, different virtual passengers might have different preferences.

I think these would make nice additions to the game.

There are a lot of airports in the game that seem to have the wrong scale, it's a real nuisance. The game doesn't resemble reality in any way.

I've made an Excel sheet with a good number of airports, how many passengers they process, what their scale should be based on their amount of passengers (proposed scale), what their scale in the game is and how much that offsets them from their proposed scale.

Keep in mind that an offset doesn't always have to be incorrect, sometimes there can be reasons for it. For example large aircraft landing at airports that otherwise see very few passengers. But there are also offsets that just can't be declared in any way. This excel sheet doesn't take that into consideration. But even when you do, there are still hundreds of airports left with an incorrect scale. No matter which criteria I use, I just can't seem to justify the scale which those airports have.

There are also lots of airports which are missing in the game, as well as there are airports in the game that are closed in real life or at least closed for airline traffic. I've included them as well.

I suggest you take a look at it. Keep in mind that this sheet is by no means complete and, despite putting a lot of effort in it, it might still contain errors. But I think it will expose a lot of wrong scale airports and other database failures that should be looked into.

Download link: https://srv-file22.gofile.io/downloadStore/srv-store5/zi9wz0/Airports.xlsx