12-18-2018, 09:19 AM
I was really thinking about the IFS, and I find that giving a fixed set of IFS based on flight times is seriously ridiculous. I take an example from Chinese airlines. They give one set of service to domestic flights and literally another set to international flights. For instance a flight between HAK and PEK is 4h, while XMN to BKK is 3h 45mins on average. I once took Xiamen Air from Xiamen to Bangkok before and they served me a meal PLUS a snack consisting of a pack of peanuts later, and I was thinking like that is the airline's norm on flights around the range of 3-5 hours. However, a few weeks later my Friend took the same airline between HAK and PEK (which is a domestic, btw), and she told me she only got one meal aboard. So given such a circumstance under present game mechanics, I would be forced to give the same service to an international flight versus a domestic flight.
Then again, since ticket prices are likely to be similar (unless customised), so I guess that is fine. The most ridiculous situation, however, would be those hovering at around 2 hours. If an aircraft takes less than 2 hours to fly a route while another takes more than 2 hours, than really we would see 2 sets of IFS per route, which is absolutely disgusting.
So how to solve this? I know of one other game who does it by distance, but I was thinking of whether we can customise which route has which set of IFS. Just like how we can change the ticket prices for every flight, similarly I think there should be a way to do so for IFS. We don't have to go the extent of setting a breakfast IFS for morning flights, lunch IFS for afternoon flights etc, but at least it could be something we can set for all flights between destination X and destination Y. This way, we can standardise our IFS (and our route reputation)
Then again, since ticket prices are likely to be similar (unless customised), so I guess that is fine. The most ridiculous situation, however, would be those hovering at around 2 hours. If an aircraft takes less than 2 hours to fly a route while another takes more than 2 hours, than really we would see 2 sets of IFS per route, which is absolutely disgusting.
So how to solve this? I know of one other game who does it by distance, but I was thinking of whether we can customise which route has which set of IFS. Just like how we can change the ticket prices for every flight, similarly I think there should be a way to do so for IFS. We don't have to go the extent of setting a breakfast IFS for morning flights, lunch IFS for afternoon flights etc, but at least it could be something we can set for all flights between destination X and destination Y. This way, we can standardise our IFS (and our route reputation)