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Suggestions to address the underpopulation issue: | Suggestions to address the underpopulation issue: | ||
* Administration should be controlled. For instance promoting ranks amongst members. Another promotions idea is to keep people in charge of certain sectors of the airline, for instance: route management, fleet management, advertising management, application/enrolment management, or whatever else is felt required for an airline. | * Administration and management should be carefully controlled. For instance promoting ranks amongst members. Another promotions idea is to keep people in charge of certain sectors of the airline, for instance: route management, fleet management, advertising management, application/enrolment management, or whatever else is felt required for an airline. | ||
* | * Fleet size should be kept to the bare minimum, and suited to their routes and serving airports. Real life operators typically use a small fleet size to suit their operations. Ryanair for example operates a total of 146 Boeing 737-800's, as their only aircraft type. This suits their short-haul European destinations and therefore do not require additional fleet models. | ||
* Routes should be also kept to a minimum, accurately maintained, well informed and carefully chosen. A rough guideline would be about five pilots for every route, so an airline with 15 pilots would be suited to an airline with three routeways. | |||
* Airports should be chosen for their location, and to suit the fleet using it. Using a large amount of airport's clustered together in a small region is not a good idea, as it would (in real life) mean high airport charges, when airports should be shared and codeshared. | |||
* Hub airports should not be used too often, 1 hub is suitable and looks better over the Multiplayer servers, if it is well used. ATC should be used at the hub airport, at least. | |||