airlines such as emirates have bars and sowers on their airbus A380. I think their should be an option to add these to our planes. then there is the simpler thing such as WI-FI and mobile coverage. is they any planes to ad this to this game.
I like this, but don't know how it would be implemented.
I was thinking of seat maps map you pick the size(in rows) for the shower and bar. Mobile coverage and Wi-fi could be put you configurations too.
LOL - Emirates and desperately try to offer business products that these costumers will wake up in the middle of the night to use their products. Sorry, but not every single product may find it's way into airlinesim
But its nice to have
Maybe more realistic for AS is to implement some basic IFE choices that I understand are already in the roadmap. WiFi could be one choice there.
If you have 10 first class passengers in an A380, I think you can have enough choices with different IFE choices.
more then emirates have a bar on their fightsÂ
Rather than offering bars and hooter girls on flights for improved ORS rating and differentiation, I would prefer business-like features, such as marketing and LCC features (including LCC-grown pax demand)... a thoroughly deep marketing function could offer a completely new dimension to the game.
a thoroughly deep marketing function could offer a completely new dimension to the game.
The biggest problem is how to make marketing not be More Money = Better Flights. In other words, what kind of marketing would work that wouldn't give the automatic advantage to the airlines with the most money?
The only thing I've ever been able to come up with that's fair is something similar to the maintenance system, which although has several options, isn't that big of a deal. Most people who have looked at the maintenance numbers, are going to pick one of two maintenance providers because they provide the best service. It's min-maxing, and it would happen in marketing if it was done in a similar way to maintenance.
The demand could be linked to marketing function. Now I am putting in idea form Airwaysim, which of course cannot be copied 100%, but some idea could be based on it.
You would need to run marketing to get better demands. The starting demand would be e.g. 10% of ORS share, meaning 10% of demand assigned to you by ORS/demand calculation a this time. So if you get 286 pax on A to B route, you would get 28.6 pax only. You would need to run marketing based on flights you do, local, regional sh, medium haul, long haul. Both general marketing (affecting LF in general) and route specific marketing (affecting LF for a specific route). There would be a marketing index for your airline which would be another factor that would affect demand calculation. But it would not necessarily translate not visible" ORS rating, so as to make this feature more difficult and comprehensive. You would get visible ORS rating based on seats, image, service, duration of trip, but marketing would be the "invisible factor" so even a lower ORS with better marketing would give you maybe better demand distribution than higher ORS with low or no marketing.
How to make sure big airlines do not dominate marketing? Simply: a small airline would need to spend much much less on marketing for a specific route and for a general marketing than a big airline. In other words, to maintain your marketing index you would need to spend substantially more on marketing as you a) add routes; b) add planes; c) add frequency. If you add frequency and do not boost marketing, your demand calculation will be smaller and you will get fewer pax. E.g. you spend X$ and get 100 pax with 110 capacity. If you increase capacity to 220 pax you would need to spend 2X. If you only spend 1.5X you will get 150 pax on 220 capacity. Also to make it more interesting, the increase in marketing spending would be a geometric progression rather than arithmetic progression. So a big airline with 1000 planes and 2000 routes would need to spend maybe 10x more per pax than a small airline with 10 planes and 15 routes. If the big airline does not spend huge money on marketing, the load factors would start dropping.
This would be another way to compete against big airlines. If you are a competitor, you would automatically get some portion of pax demand based on ORS calculation as it is right now. But if you improve marketing, you will get more pax and those pax will be taken form the big airline. If the big airline wants to compete for those pax to get them back, it needs to do marketing as well, but spend maybe 10x more per pax than a small airline. This will stop 1000+ big airlines form printing tens of millions of AS$ per day, and give smaller players a better chance to play on established servers.
P.S. I am available as a marketing consultant for AS team at any time free of charge (maybe some credits bonus would be nice lol ... :) JK...)