Automatic assignment of Aircrafts to route

[Kaiii3]

I would like to suggest following feature:

At the moment you have to assign a specific ruoute/flight to a specific aircraft. At the beginning of the game this is good manageable but with more and more routes and aircrafts this is getting quite complex.

What I have in mind, besides the current way of assignment: You have your fleet of aircrafts and these are getting assigned automatically to o a flight on diffrerent routes, based on the settings for the flight.

Lets say you have the route EDDH-EDDF you set up a flight every 1h from EDDH and from EDDF. In the morning and afternoon you specifiy the aircraft to a A321 and during the middday to a A320. TAPv4 now calculates how many aircrafts you need for the flights and assigns them automatically.

If you create now a second route EDDF-EDDM with only A321 flights all the day, the A321s that had no flights over the midday on EDDH-EDDF will now also be used automatically on this new route.

I hope it is unterstandable what I am aming for Especially for the new "Seasons + seasonal scheduling" this feature would make the progress of scheduling easier and faster

[Tjoeker]

We already have feature like that in game.

We have created 2 scheduling systems:
-the old familiar way, accessed under routes/airliners
-the new way, accessed under routes and than the airliner icon next to each route.

In the new system you first choose a route and the departure time/day/(season).
Then the game looks for all aircraft that are able to fly that route at that time and shows them in the dropdown menu.


Or are you suggesting a fully automated system where you say, I want a flight in the morning, afternoon and evening.
After that the game changes all schedules until it fits?
That seems a bit hard to implement.. And has it really that much added value over the new system?


There is one feature that was scrapped during implementation:
In the first concept we also had the ability to add a margin to the departure time.
example: I want a departure round 8 o'clock, with a margin of 15 minutes.
Now the game looks whether there is any aircraft able to do the flight at 8 o'clock, if not it looks whether there are aircraft to do the flight with a departure between 7:45 and 8:15.

This feature probably gets you even closer to what you want, we might take a look at it again.

[Kaiii3]

In the new system you first choose a route and the departure time/day/(season).
Then the game looks for all aircraft that are able to fly that route at that time and shows them in the dropdown menu.

That systems come close to what I have in mind, but I had some problems (no free slots at the airports-bug) using it and had therefore not tested it yet completly. One other bug/problem I had with it, was that the turnaround-time after a full trip is more or less ignored by the tool.