from which age does the aircraft lowers your raiting?
The aircraft age does not lower the ratings. It lowers the image which in turn does not contribute to the rating to the full extent it otherwise could.
2 years .
You always start with a 0 image. The initial flight you book with a 15 year old A 320 and brand new A 320 will have the same raring.
I repeat. The aircraft age does not lower the ratings. It lowers the image which in turn does not contribute to the future rating to the full extent it otherwise could.
And btw Fly boy what you are talking about is contributing factor to image, not to rating, and it is not 2 years but 2.5 years.
it changes the ORS? does the image really matters?
Image changes the ORS, yes image does matter, aircraft gae does not matter directly for ORS rating but it matters for the image rating.
If you want me to keep helping/mentoring you by PM, please you must have some faith instead of questioning what I say. If you doubt what I say, you are free to find somebody else to mentor you, simple as that.
Image changes the ORS, yes image does matter, aircraft gae does not matter directly for ORS rating but it matters for the image rating.
If you want me to keep helping/mentoring you by PM, please you must have some faith instead of questioning what I say. If you doubt what I say, you are free to find somebody else to mentor you, simple as that.
Rubio,
Do you have any idea if the change in image is a linear function or more of exponential function? It seems to me that it should be more of an exponential funtion as it ages. As a passenger I wouldn't care much if a plane were 2.5 years old as much as 8 or 9. And once you reach 15-20 years I'd think the plane is aged and I'd prefer a different plane. Age does show in the interior of the plane as wear and tear although I suppose you could refurbish the plane to confuse.
Lipscomb407
I know that the aircraft loses one green bar of image effect for every 2.5 years of age. But the effect of age is substantial on image, if you realize that an airline that uses 18-20 year old planes cannot get past ~30 image rating even with best seats and onboard service and terinals, while new planes and good seats and good service can easily give you 80+ image in a few weeks.I amw orking with players who switched flights from 18-20 year old planes into a new sub where they entered witha mix of 2-4-6 year old planes and they are already at ~80+ image.
In general terms, my experience is that it is quite safe to operate aircraft up to 5 years of age image-wise.
Hi,
several things are being mixed up. Partly because there are different sorts of ratings :-)
Good on-board service doesn't improve your airline image. Good seats improve your airline image as far as they offer more leg room.
The image of your airline is the average of all the individual image ratings of all individual flights your airline has ever flown. Space between the seats, popularity of the plane, age of the plane, the number of flight attendants and staff mood make or break your airline image.
The ORS is the booking system of the game. It gives every flight a rating and passengers will (dis)like your flight based on that ORS rating. The primary ORS rating = product factors of the flight compared to the price of that flight. The image of your airline is one of the product factors, together with the quality of your service, quality of seats, type of terminal and the price.
If you offer better on-board service, you can sell your tickets at a higher price and still get the same ORS rating. If your airline image is higher, you can also sell your tickets at a higher price and still get the same ORS rating. So airline image is indeed important. However, nobody can tell you how important exactly. At least, I don't think any player has ever experimented enough to find out the exact weight of each product factor in the formula that calculates the ORS rating. Quality of terminals for example is a product factor, but changing from a standard 1 or 2 green bar terminal to a 5 green bar terminal will allow you to increase economy prices by just 1% (and still keep the same ORS rating). Business passengers on the other hand appreciate a good terminal and you can increase your prices by more than 1% if you switch to own terminals.
The important thing about airline image is that it is the average of all your flights...
Let's say you operate a fleet of crappy old planes during a period of 1 year, and let's say your airline image is 40. You then change your business model and replace your fleet by new and popular planes. You also throw in a few extra flight attendants and every flight gets an image rating of 4 green bars (or a score of 80). It will then take a whole year for your airline image to increase from 40 to 60. One more year later your airline image will be 66. After 4 years your airline image will be 70.
The aircraft age does not lower the ratings. It lowers the image which in turn does not contribute to the rating to the full extent it otherwise could.
That's semantics :-)
If you start an airline with new planes and you don't replace them, your airline image will effectively start to go down after 2.5 years.
Jan
PS
I haven't mentioned aircraft condition. It is also an image factor, but I don't know what it stands for.