03-30-2017, 07:30 PM
Point with cargo is that tonnage is hardly saying much. I mean Schiphol handles a LOT of flowers from places like Ghana and flies them onwards to every from London to Tokyo to New York. Not much weight in those 
Gameplay wise I think it should be a higher risk option, cargo is not the golden goose these days and many legacy carriers struggle with their cargo divisions. The demand is just very very iffy because it is so expensive to fly cargo and really the only ones we do it well are dedicated cargo airlines or postage companies like Fed ex, DHL and the like.
Also a fun note from a cargo pilot who used to fly for a Saudi company (now flies for Cargo Lux):
We flew to places like Yemen and other unstable regions and always when we did this we fueled up at home base with enough fuel to fly both legs of the trip just so that we spend as little time as possible on the ground. I mean fuel is so damn cheap there that is was simply not worth the risk to fuel up at those other airports.
An other note:
There is an alarm that goes off in the cockpit if we have not taken any action for 30(? not sure anymore) minutes, so that means not having touched a single control. And yes before you ask that alarm goes off every 30 minutes when we fly.
Gameplay wise I think it should be a higher risk option, cargo is not the golden goose these days and many legacy carriers struggle with their cargo divisions. The demand is just very very iffy because it is so expensive to fly cargo and really the only ones we do it well are dedicated cargo airlines or postage companies like Fed ex, DHL and the like.
Also a fun note from a cargo pilot who used to fly for a Saudi company (now flies for Cargo Lux):
We flew to places like Yemen and other unstable regions and always when we did this we fueled up at home base with enough fuel to fly both legs of the trip just so that we spend as little time as possible on the ground. I mean fuel is so damn cheap there that is was simply not worth the risk to fuel up at those other airports.
An other note:
There is an alarm that goes off in the cockpit if we have not taken any action for 30(? not sure anymore) minutes, so that means not having touched a single control. And yes before you ask that alarm goes off every 30 minutes when we fly.