Cargo

[Unknown98]

Searching data regarding cargo will be completely impossible in case of many airports. Could we unlike in case of passengers statistics use system such as in CA. That means the statistics would increase based on flight frequency to respective airports. The statistics counter would be visible all the time on airport page. I think the game would be then more varied and smaller airports would'n be forgotten by the players. Thank you

I'm not sure... I really want to get away from the CA way of doing things. If a certain route or airport has more activity (and thus competition) demand should decrease, not increase.

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.

This is all true... something we'll have to work around. From what I've seen anyway, the only cargo statistics available for most airports (if any are available at all) is tonnage. I presume the volume of cargo would be a better stat to use... but that stat doesn't exist lol. And the value of cargo differs widely and holds no relation to the weight or volume of the cargo. The oil companies will pay hundreds of thousands to air freight a piece of equipment if they need it badly enough, because the consequence of not having that equipment could be in the millions.