09-22-2019, 02:00 AM
This could be a really stupid thought, but I couldn't get it out of my head while I was playing this morning.
I was thinking about route assignments in this and other similar games (like the old Airbucks or Airline Tycoon) and the general idea seems to be plane N1234A flies route 1000 and plane N1234B flies route 1001 and so on. But my (possibly very wrong) understanding of how airlines assign aircraft to routes is much more complex in practice but the basic theory is there is a pool of same-type aircraft that are assigned to a certain group of routes e.g. N1234A flies route 1000 one day and route 1001 the next.
Would something like this pool-style assignment be possible? Mostly I'm thinking instead of assigning a particular aircraft (N1234A) to a route, I can have the option to say I want a certain aircraft type (A320) to fly the route and the individual aircraft gets assigned as available. I think especially with plane crashes, mechanical failures, or other events; if an aircraft goes down to maintenance, a pool aircraft could quickly be assigned to the route without much disruption to the route itself.
I was thinking about route assignments in this and other similar games (like the old Airbucks or Airline Tycoon) and the general idea seems to be plane N1234A flies route 1000 and plane N1234B flies route 1001 and so on. But my (possibly very wrong) understanding of how airlines assign aircraft to routes is much more complex in practice but the basic theory is there is a pool of same-type aircraft that are assigned to a certain group of routes e.g. N1234A flies route 1000 one day and route 1001 the next.
Would something like this pool-style assignment be possible? Mostly I'm thinking instead of assigning a particular aircraft (N1234A) to a route, I can have the option to say I want a certain aircraft type (A320) to fly the route and the individual aircraft gets assigned as available. I think especially with plane crashes, mechanical failures, or other events; if an aircraft goes down to maintenance, a pool aircraft could quickly be assigned to the route without much disruption to the route itself.