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Flight system - Unknown98 - 09-25-2016
Curious as to how you guys envision the flight system working. In CA we had a page that listed all your aircraft with an option for each plane to fly it to a number of possible destinations. I could simply re-create that page but I'm not sure if that's the direction I want to go in. At the same time I'm not sure what other options there are, other than going all-out with a scheduling/timetable system which I'm not going to do.
One thing I thought of was to look at it from the perspective of routes, rather than aircraft. So you'd create a route, say ATL-MIA-DFW. This could be however you want, you wouldn't need the same starting/ending destination or anything. Then there would be a page that lists all the routes you created, and you could click on each route to "fly" that route. You'd pick the aircraft you want to assign to fly that route (the aircraft would have to be located in the departure airport) and hit "fly route" or whatever. You could create various routes and get creative, so if you wanted to do Atlanta-Miami-Dallas-Phoenix, and then Phoenix-San Francisco-Minneapolis-Atlanta you could do that. Fly the first route in the morning and then fly the second in the afternoon. Kind of like an automatic itinerary but looking at it a little differently. There would have to be a limit to the number of flights you could have on each route, or maybe not the number of flights but the amount of time or distance each route takes up. I think that'd be more fair. This would prevent people from automating their entire fleet for days on end.
I don't know, what do you guys think?
RE: Flight system - POTKC - 09-25-2016
I think the itinerary idea that you describe would be perfect. That would also be very good for setting up roundtrips, for example new York - Mumbai - New York, or something like that. Would this be instead of the quick flight dropdown menu that CA had?
RE: Flight system - skifans - 09-25-2016
The second proposal sounds nice, however, I think some limit would be needed to stop ridiculous and huge routing. And, maybe you should additionally be able to fly a route which you haven't created as an unscheduled flight with no passengers. Could such a system also be used to increase the patronage of a particular route as the amount of time that route has been flown increases?
RE: Flight system - Unknown98 - 09-25-2016
Some limit would definitely be needed. Maybe something like a time limit, each route that you put together can be no longer than than X amount of hours long. I'll put a system in place as well where you can fly an unscheduled flight in order to transport an aircraft.
I was planning on creating an "image" system for airlines. Having a good public image would increase patronage across all your routes. I hadn't thought of having a system like that for individual routes though. That's a good idea.
RE: Flight system - POTKC - 09-25-2016
(09-25-2016, 03:31 PM)Unknown98 Wrote: I was planning on creating an "image" system for airlines. Having a good public image would increase patronage across all your routes. I hadn't thought of having a system like that for individual routes though. That's a good idea.
So image would be sort of like airline rating was for CA? Would this be linked to aircraft leasing, or would such limits be removed as I suggested on the refugee forum a few months ago? Sort of off topic...
RE: Flight system - Unknown98 - 09-25-2016
It would be similar to the airline rating, yes. I think aircraft leasing would be affected by a separate credit rating, not your brand image. So to answer your question, yes, the leasing limits would not be linked to your image/rating BUT there would be limits linked to your credit rating - just as in real life.
RE: Flight system - USA - 09-25-2016
I like that, good idea
RE: Flight system - skifans - 09-25-2016
yep, sounds good.
RE: Flight system - Carde - 09-25-2016
Personally I like the idea of being able to set up routes which will happen as they go, but you have to check in to ensure all is well, or maybe things are going wrong (break down, bad weather) so you have to fly in a backup plane for example to take care of things, maybe do some PR work to limit your reputation damage.
It would make things a bit more strategic, sure I can put all my planes up on routes, but I would be left without any backup when something goes wrong and stranded passengers are not happy ones. As your airline grows larger and older you could delegate older aircraft to this role, but you still need to deal with upkeep and also if you new planes have the most fancy IFE systems and people suddenly board and older plane without it, that would also hinder their excitement.
Anyhow at least make sure the routes can be saved so if I send up a nice go between routining that I can keep it going cause well that makes sense
RE: Flight system - ryanfairellis97 - 10-07-2016
Slightly off topic but Will there be some feature like Arrival and departure boards for each airport, just a feature that I liked from before:/