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scudzilla wrote: »

I'm sure i'll get by :P

Oooh, I think we have the Michael O'Leary of AM here on Boards!

Dacian

wayne2107 wrote: »

Buy a concord and sell it straight away you will still get the achievement.

Got $300M in the bank so gonna do this, then buy another A380 with the sell money. Waste of cash just to get an achievement IMO, but thats the game!

cawan15

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Dacian

Not sure if that airline is an accredited member of the Green Jersey Index

crisco10

The 100 routes from your hub is one mother of an achievement to get! I thought I was doing well and counted my routes, 45! :mad: not even halfway!

I know things tend to snowball but 55 is a lot of routes, nevermind 155 for the 200 achievement!

I am kind of torn, I could reinvest my daily income in short range planes (Fokkers, 737-900 etc) to get to the achievement but I would rather stretch out into 777, A330's etc and improve my fleet.

What do you more advanced (in the game)folk do?

Leinster Airlines if anyone wants to check out my progess. (share price €13)

robinph

I'm sticking three planes on each new route I setup now from my hub to increase the numbers there. Still have to pay three times for the advertising, but that expense isn't too much of an issue these days.

The_Conductor

robinph wrote: »

I'm sticking three planes on each new route I setup now from my hub to increase the numbers there. Still have to pay three times for the advertising, but that expense isn't too much of an issue these days.

Does it let you do this? It refuses to accept more than 2 planes per route from me. I've been using the 335 PAX A330s- perhaps its a max pax per route? Dunno......

crisco10

smccarrick wrote: »

Does it let you do this? It refuses to accept more than 2 planes per route from me. I've been using the 335 PAX A330s- perhaps its a max pax per route? Dunno......

And will you get the acheivement for it?

robinph

smccarrick wrote: »

Does it let you do this? It refuses to accept more than 2 planes per route from me. I've been using the 335 PAX A330s- perhaps its a max pax per route? Dunno......

The biggest planes I've got on the same route so far are three 767-300's and it didn't give me any problem setting those routes up. On my next spending spree I'll try sticking a fourth plane on some route and see what it does, I'm going to have to start shuffling a few planes around to new routes soon anyway as some are now flying less than capacity.

reverandkenjami

Fleet up to 26 now!!

16 x ATR 42-300
8 x B737-800
1x B767-200ER
1x B727-200

Mostly concentrating on short haul at the min! 24 of my flights are in Europe with the others being New york & Moscow!

The_Conductor

crisco10 wrote: »

And will you get the acheivement for it?

Eventually- whenever I manage to get 100 routes out of my hub...... I thought I was close, but am only at 64 thus far. I went on an expansion binge from other airports (New York, London and Geneva) without thinking through what I was doing. I haven't reassigned any of them though.......

staker

Air Striker Airlines set up yesterday.
2 flights in operation, Dublin Aalborg;Dublin Berlin...

Ted Striker returns:D:D:D

GiBBYAir

Dacian wrote: »

Not sure if that airline is an accredited member of the Green Jersey Index

And just how can we 'join the gang' so?

My Airline is GiBBY Airlines but it's sold out! Another good one to invest in is ShAmRoK Airlines, not my own, but I have a big investment in their success - and their still affordable at around $3 per share He's buying 2 x 787s each day now and steadily growing!

wayne2107

Lads whats the site that calculates route distance?

Dacian

crisco10 wrote: »

I am kind of torn, I could reinvest my daily income in short range planes (Fokkers, 737-900 etc) to get to the achievement but I would rather stretch out into 777, A330's etc and improve my fleet.

I started to add A342s at about the 50 aircraft mark. (Maybe try B787-800 as an alternative, A330/B777/B747 are too expensive at this stage) Didn't get the 100 Hub achievement till I had over 150 overall routes. Expand first then maybe start adding the odd A320/B737 to your hub. The 100 routes will achieve itself eventually. I was able to keep count as all my A318Es/A319s/B737 were from my hub.

Thanks for the stock tip Paul. Grabbing now.

You're a member as you post in this thread....easy!


Concorde is awful......250K profit on first flight. Being sold as soon as its back in Dublin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jrwings

JRwings Airlines still has plenty of shares and at 1.44 its a good time to get em while there hot.

Ive moved on from the MD80's to the A340 and B787, 1M and 1.5M profit respectively!!

The_Conductor

wayne2107 wrote: »

Lads whats the site that calculates route distance?

http://am.n00b.hk/

radar0976

A great chance to get in early for stocks in my airline (NiceFlaps Airlines). Currently at only 0.13 and plenty available. 5 aircraft so far with another two being added tonight. Am in this for the long haul (no pun intended) so invest now while I'm still good value.

crisco10

radar0976 wrote: »

A great chance to get in early for stocks in my airline (NiceFlaps Airlines). Currently at only 0.13 and plenty available. 5 aircraft so far with another two being added tonight. Am in this for the long haul (no pun intended) so invest now while I'm still good value.

Just sold some of my dead stocks.....then bough 60,000 of yours. Good luck my friend...

Tannylan

Coombe Airlines is seeking Investment
Details
Total Flights: 1,816
Pax of all Time: 218596
Reputation: 100%
Stock Rate: 4.42


A/C Fleet

B737-800 x 1
B787-8 x 2
B767-200ER x 1
B727-200x 1
B757-300 x 2
B737-700x 1
B737-400 x 2
B737-500x 8
B737-900ER x 1
B737-900 x 3
B787-3 x 4
B767-200x 1
B767-300 x 1

radar0976

crisco10 wrote: »

Just sold some of my dead stocks.....then bough 60,000 of yours. Good luck my friend...

Thanks man. Much appreciated. None of your stock available at the moment. Will return the favour and buy some if it comes up.

crisco10

radar0976 wrote: »

Thanks man. Much appreciated. None of your stock available at the moment. Will return the favour and buy some if it comes up.

Don't stress. I have gotten my achievement for stock sold etc. Although, they are pretty good stocks. ever increasing!

hick

Tannylan wrote: »

Coombe Airlines is seeking Investment

took 50k stock in ye, get movin

staker

radar0976 wrote: »

A great chance to get in early for stocks in my airline (NiceFlaps Airlines). Currently at only 0.13 and plenty available. 5 aircraft so far with another two being added tonight. Am in this for the long haul (no pun intended) so invest now while I'm still good value.

bought 99999 of yours, see you've returned half the favour:p

staker

Dacian wrote: »

Not sure if that airline is an accredited member of the Green Jersey Index

Can't find any info about Green Jersey Index...
What is it?:o

lord lucan

This is DubAir's route map at the moment. 42 routes atm,it was more but i ditched my MD-80's and am sticking with mainly boeings.


My fleet currently looks like this:
B737-800 1
B787-8 25
B767-200ER 2
B727-200 1
B757-300 7
B767-400ER 2
A300-600 2
B747-400C 1
B767-200 1
B707 1

reverandkenjami

Fuel at $400

miju

Tannylan wrote: »

Coombe Airlines is seeking Investment

no stocks left to buy

bit of a crisis at OMAC Airlines tonight. have 125 jet aircract currently all in the air but when they land I've only 500,000lbs of fuel. While I've about $31 million in cash handy I really dont wanna be spending it on buying fuel at it's current $1,600 price

macrubicon

Managed to find it at $400 so bought 75m lbs. Shares took a 30c hit though...

Puts the fleet expansion back a bit but should not need fuel for a while.

TirEoghain

wayne2107 wrote: »

Yes I agree the A321 is the best bet.

Might try a couple of them myself.

At the moment my fleet is mostly B737-300ER. Range of 10200 and they bring in about 500k per flight. Would this be considered good, or would I be getting better value using something else?

Thanks folks.

BTW. I just bought 40,000,000lbs of fuel, so my shares are temporarily down if anyone want to take this chance to get them cheap.

crisco10

TirEoghain wrote: »

Might try a couple of them myself.

At the moment my fleet is mostly B737-300ER. Range of 10200 and they bring in about 500k per flight. Would this be considered good, or would I be getting better value using something else?

Thanks folks.

BTW. I just bought 40,000,000lbs of fuel, so my shares are temporarily down if anyone want to take this chance to get them cheap.

500k per flight is alright. But thats only 1000k a day on routes that length. If you put an a321 on a 5500km route you get about 500k per flight and send it 3 times a day for 1500k. Even better is the DC-10-10 if you don't mind its tendancy to guzzle fuel. The DC-10-10 can get about 700k per flight so makes about 2000k a day.

scudzilla

Just bought 500mill lb's of fuel, cost me over 200mill, my share price has gone down a lot, if any investors want to jump ship then feel free, plenty more wanna jump on my gravy train :D

Tabnabs

scudzilla wrote: »

if any investors want to jump ship then feel free, plenty more wanna jump on my gravy train :D

Oh, you'd like that wouldn't you MOL-zilla!

Dacian

staker wrote: »

Can't find any info about Green Jersey Index...
What is it?:o

Nothing official. It was the group name for the Irish Boards Airlines. A previous member posted regular stock updates and we gave each other notice of stock increases so we could profit off each other. That poster is no longer playing and there are now so many Irish airlines its hard to keep track. I thought it strange that a new poster merely put up his logo,then looked at his AM profile. Its funny because after you get the 800K shares sold achievement its no real benefit for you to have investors,unless it pushes up the stock price somehow.


Edit: Sold my Concorde (EJ-FST) after 2 flights as its muck. Made profit of 250K per sector,granted each sector was 3 hours! Far better to have 25 A342/50 A321 instead. Got my achievement though!
Anyway sold it for $357M, used proceeds to buy another A380 and lots (300M lbs) of fuel. Stock price took a big hit but will get back to $60 soon enough. Gonna try for full billboards adverts on most of my 226 routes tomorrow than we're back into an expansion phase.

Edit 2:

staker wrote: »

How low do the advertising costs go?

On Monday and Thursday the cost of Billboards goes down to $5000. Same as fuel,it will hop from $400 to $1200 today and Saturday. Keep checking each hour until yo see the price you want.

staker

Cheers Dacian..
How low do the advertising costs go?

miju

sweet just logged on to find fuel at $400 spent all my 30 mill on buying 75,000,000lbs and sent all my planes flying again and have just short of 25mill in the bank again from those flights so OMAC Airlines is back on track

The_Conductor

staker wrote: »

Cheers Dacian..
How low do the advertising costs go?

Potentially 5k for billboards Monday AM and Thursday AM. Best bet is buy 3 days of advertising every Monday- and 4 days every Thursday to max up on cheap advertising.

scudzilla

Shares have dropped from around 18.50 to 16.80 for scudzilla airlines, reason is i'm on a mission to get the 850,000,000lbs of fuel achievement, at the moment i've got 670mill lbs in the tanks, normal service will resume in a day or 2

Bogger77

Fuel at 400

patto_chan

Steady if unspectacular progress:

Total Flights: 983
Pax of all Time: 126623
Reputation: 100%
Stock Rate: 3.52

Fuel: 30 million pounds

29 aircraft - mostly Boeing but bought my first Airbus today:
B737-500 x 7
B737-800 x 2
B737-900 x 3
B757-300 x 14
B787-8 x 2
A330-300 x 1


Still have 500k shares available to sell.

Dacian

patto_chan wrote: »

Steady if unspectacular progress:
29 aircraft - mostly Boeing but bought my first Airbus today:

I would advise you to look at getting a few A340-200. Don't bother with the A330s yet. A342 is cheaper than the B787-800 and gives a similar return. Its a very effcient aircraft. My boom in expansion was based on a 60/40 split of A342/B788.

wayne2107

Griffair Update:

Fleet

A319-200 x 6
A320-200 x 6
A330-300 x 5
BAe146 x 50
A321-200 x 8
B787-8 x 1
A318 Elite x 9
A318-100 x 4
A340-200 x 6
A319-100CJ x 8
B747-100 x 2
CRJ 100 x 16
ATR 42-300 x 3
SD3-60 x 1

Routes

wayne2107

Hmm apparantly we have no routes lol.

miju

after OMAC Airlines fuel crisis this morning which grounded all my planes I've managed over the day to build fuel reserves up to 125,000,000lbs of fuel and buy another 6 B707s which is good progress.

Share price still took a hammering though

Bogger77

Got my fuel stores to over 140mill lbs, but I've 43 MD80's flying so I'll need it :-)

current map

crisco10

Dacian wrote: »

I would advise you to look at getting a few A340-200. Don't bother with the A330s yet. A342 is cheaper than the B787-800 and gives a similar return. Its a very effcient aircraft. My boom in expansion was based on a 60/40 split of A342/B788.

I would back this up. I went slightly the other way 60/40 toward the 787-8. A great fleet combination in my opinion. I think I may start buying 777-200/Md-11 or 747-300s. Carry over 400 passengers for 11/12 hours so can get it away twice a day.......

Eoinsheehy

I've really only just started Airline Manager and I've sold my Boeing 737-800 and a few other small planes and have brought 5 DC-9-21's.


Good Idea?


Also here is my route map (pityful I know )
http://server117.server.activewebs.dk/am/route_graph_in_air.php?uid=100000493514017

Coyote

El Coyote Airline

Coyote’s guide to Airline Manager
I started 12 days ago sold all the shares in my airline 10 days ago for 18p they are now worth €5.41
I have 270mill in the bank and 150mill of fuel.I have not grown as
fast as I could have as I was not online and did not bother to buy planes some days.

I will be posting up a spreadsheet I did up on day two; I would ask that it is not posted on other board.
I did it up for myself and don’t mind sharing with boards.ie but would prefer it’s only there.


I have a different thought on how to grow your airline
This will need you to be online 5 times a day about every 3 hours for 10min.

First the ROI (return on investment) is the most important thing
It’s how long that plane will take to buy the same model, and how fast your airline can grow.

Starting out
Day 1
Sell the Boeing you get at the start and buy 25+ ATR 42-500
Every time you launch your planes (every 3 hours or so) use the cash to buy more ATR 42-500 till you have about 100-150.
It can take as little as 3 days to get 150 which will make profits of over 25mill a day after costs (crew/fuel/airport tax)
Profit per day €25mill

Day 4
Next buy 20+ Vicker Vanguard
Every time you launch use the cash to buy more Vicker Vanguard till you have about 150. this can take as little as 3 days
Profit per day €135mill

Day 8
Start buying either the DC-10-10 or the II-86
The DC-10-10 costs less but you’re spending time creating routes and will have to remove ATR 42-500 after you get to 400 planes.
The II-86 is more profitable but costs more and your ROI will be longer but you will be making close to 170mill a day profit so
you can buy about 16 on day one and 20 day two and day 4 24 more II-86
Profit per day 280+mill

If you have questions about the spreadsheet I will try to help
sheet one two and three are the same with diff planes setup
sheet 4 has a list of all Airbus and Boeing planes and how good or bad they are for buying

If you liked this post please use the thank you button and leave a thanks

jrwings

Has anyone tried out the catering?
I have 23 flights and wonder would it be worth it.
Also which meal choice is best, the cheapest or most expensive.

Thanks
JR

Dacian

jrwings wrote: »

Has anyone tried out the catering?
I have 23 flights and wonder would it be worth it.

Don't bother until you have a lot more routes. The dearest choice has a minimum spend of 15000 meals. I didn't sell that many in 14 hours until I had over 100 routes.

It isn't really a great return on your money though (dearest is $22 and sells at $26 so that perhaps $80K profit for me)and doesn't seem to increase your chance of getting any pax points.