Aircraft families have been implemented, in anticipation of family maintenance costs. Please review the new aircraft research page, which has been re-done to be grouped by manufacturer, and then by family. 

I do have a few questions, for example the DC-9/MD-80/MD-90/B717 - Are these all the same family? Or is there a DC-9 family and then a MD-80/90 family? What family would the 717 belong to?

The 747-8... is that it's own family? Or should all 747s be grouped together?

Hi

Why am I having more than 100% of passengers in my flights?

Thanks.

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Guys, can I ask does anyone increase the default ticket prices?

Because Airline Empires already took "AE" and Yuxi might sue this website for having such a similar name.

My idea is instead of the current Y/Y+/Y++/J/F classes system we are using, we can implement different fare classes to make the game more realistic, and to reward all-biz-for-econ-fares and complex strategies.
Each class will have the following characteristics:
- Price
- Seat type: Budget Economy, Normal Economy, Economy Plus, Prem Econ (Business for short-haul), Business, and First
- Cabin number: if you have separate cabins for the same seat type for 2 different fare classes, the seats will only be booked for the assigned cabin. Let's say we have 2 fare classes: Economy and Economy Enhanced, both using Economy seats, the latter without bag fees. We set 2 different cabins - a 90 seat cabin for Economy and a 30 seat cabin for Enhanced. So, we are limited to up to 90 Economy passengers and 30 Economy Enhanced passengers. But if we use one cabin, we can have any combination with up to 120 passengers, such as 110 Economy and 10 Economy Enhanced.
- Baggage Fees (when implemented)
- IFS (when implemented)
- IFE (when implemented)

I know this is not something that comes to mind immediately, and I do not know how much it happens in the real world, but could we add part exchanging of aircraft?

Eg a 26 million e195 part exchanging for a 747-200 of similar value. Players would need to accept part exchange offers, so it could be disadvantageous to the buyer, as normal purchase go through without the need for the sellers input. But I think it could potentially be a saviour for players who are cash strapped but have an under-utilised asset. I don't even know if this can be implemented or even is a good idea. But please do say if this could be done, even with some changes

How about implementing handling contracts

1.50 per passenger - Flight turns around in default game time line
2.00 per passenger plus 10 minutes and so forth

Multiple companies would have different rates depending on airport/aircraft being used

You could also impalement the same thing for maintenance, the quicker the maintenance, the more you pay.

I don't know if this already happens, but could we get an in-game message when a gate lease or an aircraft lease is going to expire soon?