Hi guys been a while since I last played, I was Stapleton with an airline in Japan, which was a little hard having no knowledge of that area.
Anyway I am looking to come backjust wondering which would be a good starting point again.
Would I also be right in thinking I would start with 1882 credits if I buy the 2000 pack and in negative credit balance now?
I look forward to your answers.
If you have negative AS credits amount it will be adjusted after the credit purchase.
Also, I find pearls good place to start as there was so many bankruptcies lately and markets have freed a lot.
Just need to research a bit.
I would suggest a small to medium country with a good domestic market that will give you a cushion. I enjoyed playing in places like Myanmar, Cape Verde etc. Just do a research to where planes from these places go, pick a country with no other holding in it and give it a try 
Pearls is ok if you start up in an area where the non Sky Airlines are… You can’t do NZ, Fiji, Australia, Qatar… You will just waste you times as these airlines have the cash reserves to swallow you up. Focus on another server but Pearls IMHO.
So you reckon I should join pearls but more or less avoid USA and Europe?
I think, what everyone is saying, is: study the servers, the countries, the opportunities. if you want to be successful, you have to find your niche, that means a strategy that fits the market and vice versa.
Croydon has a booming AGEX right now with room in the EU and USA. There’s also still plenty of smaller countries one could induldge in…
What is AGEX?
AirlineSim Global Economic Index
I would actually start in USA if I could.
I guess USA is something new having done two airlines one in Spain and the other in Japan and not forgetting my silly attempt to try and make a hub at Doncaste Sheffield when I first joined.
Is they any difference joining Pearls say to other servers more in game features aspect rather than pearls being newer?
Beside the limit of one holding per account, no there isn’t.
Thanks for that.
Got 3 locations in mind Pakistan, Egypt and USA.
really fancy USA but have a feeling it might be to cut throat to get an airline really going there.
Defo skip Pakistan, that is unrestricted market, anyone can set up new airline. And trust me they will (as it happened to me).
Egypt and USA seem really good locations.
Good luck
Hey, we’ve all been there…
Honestly, with the new aircraft market it can be done from a standing start, since you can put up enough aircraft that you’re not stuck with just local traffic, but you do kinda need a sense of where people are going and how to get them there - so many startups just shoot off every aircraft they have from their hub at 6am and leave it at that, which does them no good.
Anyway - best thing to do, if you’re starting up and have no real idea what you’re doing, is as Yb says - find somewhere where your basic means of income is hard to mess with. So - after you’ve got past the ‘domestic competitors’ hurdle, look for a high-volume route (or routes) that some nerd with too much free time can’t just drop 100 aircraft next to. So, for example, Johannesburg-Cape Town is great, since the nearest you’re likely to get to a diversion of that is routing through Luanda or Lusaka, which just doesn’t work out. Jeddah-Dammam is less great, since said nerd can just open up a sub in Qatar and try and hit you on your domestic traffic. You’ve got to take both into account, in the long term - anyway, you can pretty much figure out whether your initial startup will do well within a few days, so take a week or two and experiment a bit!
Not sure I understand the second part in regards to Johannesburg-Cape Town.
I hardly understand any of it
The point is that as a South African airline (for the sake of argument), your only competition on by far your biggest and potentially most profitable route (or routes, if you were to expand it to Joburg to Durban, Port Elizabeth etc) is going to come from other South African airlines, which are likely to be smaller, easier to keep track of and less likely to send prices on major routes speeding down the toilet compared to overseas competitors - and noone is going to be able to route traffic through some other hub without a lot of difficulty and cost. So, you have a reasonably secure income base to work with - if you’re dependent on international connections your income is to a much greater extent at the mercy of decisions other people make. Do you have any understanding of airline hub systems and how to go about building one? It’s usually easier to draw an explanation rather than write one - so if you don’t, say so and I’ll get to that (though…maybe not until thursday, heh).
Hmmmm… What?
Well, there’s not a limitless amount of passengers out there to move - if you’re starting out and are mostly going for direct traffic then it’s in your interest to keep prices high, even if that’s at the expense of loads below 100%; meanwhile, if someone’s made a business out of connecting passengers then they may not care so much about price on the one route so much as filling their aircraft with people going elsewhere - which may result in you having to lower prices to compete. My point is that if you have less domestic competition then that’s less likely to be an issue, since your competitors, where they exist at all, are likely to be smaller and fewer in number.
I think in general, when trying to build your airline, keep in mind that you will have some competition from the airlines in the country(regional market) and the international airlines(the cross country routes) so you’re best bet would be to start by setting up a regional market that will be your stronghold…you will start working on that market by building some very good transfer options and competing prices…that way when you open up your international routes…you will have regional feeder planes which will make your airline more profitable…other then that…good luck!