Tips and tricks needed

[THCa]

Somewhat new to this have 50 planes 6 hubs starting cargo, what planes should i focus on after DC9-10 have 88M confused on what to focus on from here, any tips videos advice would be appreciated.

[DrummerJacob]

Where are your hubs? Id be interested to know. I chose one per continent and some have a 2nd.

Having one huge plane vs having 30 smaller planes isnt good for profit or Pax movement. You want to be moving people and making money as much as possible, so dont upgrade TOO much higher quite yet as you want to be able able to buy planes fairly fast like one or two per day.

At your level, I went with the Il-18B 2560km/2000ft/10lbs fuel/84 Pax

Got about 35 of those going, they served me well, I ran those for a few days and then after that I built up some money and wanted a plane I could expand my distance and Pax with.

I found the B737-700C because if you look at that plane in the list, by price, it costs $3,100.000, but its wayyy better than the 10 planes behind it and 10 planes above it too. Outperforms all competitors in the $3,000,000 range.

It features 5940km range/7550 ft runway/11lbs fuel/120 Pax

Hard to find a combo with that good fuel consumption, Pax size, distance.

Thats my strat, thats where im at. Hope it helps a little. Good luck!

[tankiawee]

Don't start cargo until later, you still have a lot of upward expansion ahead of you. Marketing has to be bought separately for passengers and cargo, so it's not efficient.

I assume you've read the guides and have an idea on how ticket prices and route lengths work. If not, that's the most important, because it determines what your upgrade path will look like.

Get 3-4 more hubs, each hub gets you 1% reputation up to 55% base before Eco or Marketing. This is important because hubs get more expensive as you get more planes. 1% sounds like very little, but it's not when stacked together. You will need the hubs later, so you might as well earn the money with the hub bonus instead of buying the hub later. Check online for good hubs, as well as figuring out yourself how your flight timings work best with your hub locations. I like to overlap hubs such that routes that are too short to economically run are optimal for the other hub, this works well because you will make way more money matching flight lengths with your log-in times.

For planes, I can recommend to have a look at the Boeing B727-100, if your routes can manage the massive 8300ft runway requirement. It costs 1.36M, is more efficient than the DC9-10, is one of the fastest cheap planes around (use the fast engines!), and carries a solid 131 pax.

Alternatively, you can take a bigger upgrade jump with the Irkut MC-21-400, by far my favourite plane (5.2M). It also has a rather long runway requirement of 6800ft. However, in return, this plane is huge (230pax), flies very fast (1096kph), and has an excellent 5500km range for medium haul flights. Don't bother with the MC-21-200s and 300s, they are 1M cheaper but you give up 30-70 passengers, so you're better off paying that extra 1M and getting one huge plane that makes money faster. Remember that true fuel costs are calculated per actual passenger, so the MC-21-400 is actually cheaper to run than smaller planes that look more efficient in lb/km.

The B727-100 is a smaller leap, but I would suggest going for the MC-21-400 right away. The MC-21-400 is powerful enough that you can hold on to it for a very long time and a fleet of these will take you straight into the midgame.

You'll notice that both planes are fast, this is a very important stat when evaluating planes. You make money by flying passengers for a cheap fuel cost per person, but since ticket prices scale by distance, a fast plane makes you money much faster than a slow plane. A very efficient but slow plane, say 14lb/km 800kph can be a worse choice than an inefficient 19lb/km 1096kph plane.