Flights that are more than 12hrs long

[fsclips]

Hi all
I have finally reached the point where long haul flights become an option. 
My plan is to fly from my base (VIE) to SIN. The flight would leave at about lunchtime.
With a 12hr flightime and a two hour turn around the aircraft arrives too late to do the same flight the next day. 
Since I don't want it to sit around I want to tag on a flight to JFK and back. The day after, the flight could start the whole thing again. 
Now, here comes the question: which days must I select for this flight to operate. Daily makes no sense as the whole rotation takes almost two days, but if I select Mo, Wed, Fri will the JFK flight take off on Tue and Thu? 
Also, I guess I will have to somehow fit in something short on Sunday otherwise the plane will sit on the ground. 
Complicated stuff 
Any tips are welcome. 
Thanks! 
Stefan

[Unknown98]

You can leave daily selected and it will run the route every other day rather than only on specific days. That is your best option.

You could also select certain days for the route to operate but you may need to make separate routes for each flight and assign all to the same aircraft. Currently that may or may not work correctly - at some point I need to look at the scheduling code to see if I can fix it.

[sfk]

Back in the days, I created a system for that.

The flight will leave at earliest possible time and come back. The next day, the flight will depart the next available time. and so on. Let's say the whole trip takes 26 hours. The Monday flight will depart at 10AM, Tuesday 12PM, Wednesday 2PM, Thursday 4PM, Friday 6PM, and Saturday 8PM. The Saturday flight will return on Sunday 10PM. You can choose to make another flight that returns before 10AM to maximize your aircraft.
If you do this, You'll have daily flights except Sunday. For that, You'll have a relief aircraft that does the Sunday flight.

Also, you can tie 7 aircrafts for a total of 6 routes in a full scale. Each route can have a different starting day, for example, route 1 will depart 10AM on Monday, Route 2 will depart on 10AM on Tuesday, and so on. The relief aircraft will just make up the route that is missed by the primary aircrafts.

I hopefully made this understandable.

This method is complicated, and you have to create each route individually, but you'll be able to use your aircraft almost all of the times.
I'm not sure if it's going to work with the updated route system. I used it long time ago.  If your trip takes just over 24 hours, try the L1011. It's fast and has a small turnaround time compared to big aircrafts.

[Dokhu]

I use the first idea. The remainign time I schedule a shorter flight or I give the aircraft more additional turn time.

[fsclips]

Thanks for the replies. 
Just so I get this right...
If I leave the VIE-SIN-VIE-JFK-VIE on daily, it will start on Monday, then Wednesday, then Friday, then Sunday, then Tuesday,...
In other words every other week it will alternate between Monday and Tuesday. So if I manage to get a second aircraft fly the same route but start a day later, I should have daily flights to both places, right?

[squaregatescrub]

For those kinds of flights, I use two similar aircrafts and the same exact routes with the days ticked differently. I tick the boxes as follows:

M-W-F-S
T-Th-S-S

That's as close I get to daily long-haul flights. Yes, I just leave the Sunday tick box on because why not.

[Unknown98]

Thanks for the replies. 
Just so I get this right...
If I leave the VIE-SIN-VIE-JFK-VIE on daily, it will start on Monday, then Wednesday, then Friday, then Sunday, then Tuesday,...
In other words every other week it will alternate between Monday and Tuesday. So if I manage to get a second aircraft fly the same route but start a day later, I should have daily flights to both places, right?

Correct

[Unknown98]

Just as an example this is a configuration I currently use, and from what I can tell by looking at the flight history it works fine:




Because each routes does not interfere with any of the other routes (they all fly on different days) it works fine. Now if you had two routes that both flew on monday for example... that's when the game gets confused and doesn't know which one to schedule.

[taylor37]

I use another method . See the example :

EZE>MXP>DEL>MXP>DEL          T/Th/S      07:40 - 05:30
EZE>TFN                                   M             08:00 - 06:08

[lolliftw]

Why so complicated lol. Honestly I only have 2 ways of doing these types of flights.

1. Double aircraft on the same Long + short routing.
Basically I schedule 2 aircrafts on the same routing, say DEL-JFK-DEL-ICN-DEL. One would start the route one day later than the other, meaning I would activate one aircraft today, than the second tomorrow. Therefore, they would definitely alternate. And the same DEL-JFK-DEL and DEL-ICN-DEL would run once weekly.

2. Double routes on on 1 aircraft.
Basically, schedule the Long route for three days and the shorter one for the other 3/4 (the last day may be some weird infinite short route schedule). So for instance I have one DEL-AKL-DEL and DEL-KIX-DEL. Therefore, I schedule DEL-KIX-DEL on MWFSu while my DEL-AKL-DEL will be on TThSa. Though it's not once daily, you can use other aircrafts to complement that route and I find it quite useful (though Method 1 is simpler and easier to implement)