Goodbye Concorde...

[Andrex]

The Concorde has been removed from the Air France fleet and British Airways will do the same before the end of the year. It seems Patchman will have to remove it from TTDPatch by the end of the year 2003, to fit reality as maximum as possible.

In fact, I never use them, because I have more profit with any other 200-300 passenger Airbus or whatever the name you have on them. The Concorde was too expensive, and its capacity very limitated.

When replying here please tell which is your preferred plane.

Full story:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/05 ... index.html

[Lilman424]

Mine is the 396 passenger Darwin 300/Boeing 747

[spaceman-spiff]

Dinger 200 because of it's capacity, but not for it's looks

[SHADOW-XIII]

I never fly that plane (never flown any plane) ... anyway I usually use it when I have airport with small passengers count

[Dinges]

I never fly that plane (never flown any plane) ... anyway I usually use it when I have airport with small passengers count

Or valuables over a long distance.

[Hyronymus]

The Concorde is my favourite, it earns me $1.500.000,- a year easily, just flying between two big (in passengers supplied) airports.

[G-Klav]

The concorde or the latest 'Airtaxi'. Both of them can easily make $2.000.000 per year, in year 2000.

[orudge]

The Concorde has been removed from the Air France fleet and British Airways will do the same before the end of the year. It seems Patchman will have to remove it from TTDPatch by the end of the year 2003, to fit reality as maximum as possible.

That'd leave us with no supersonic plane... OK, it may be like reality, but reality isn't always good.

[krtaylor]

Generally I use only the FFP Dart, or the Concorde. The planes are just too hard to tell apart. Occasionally I will use the 747-like one, usually not so much because of passengers as because of too much mail.

When the fix-the-planes project is done and they have their proper names and stats, then I will use a wider variety of them because I'll be able to tell them apart and know what they're for.

I have always though that, as in the real world, TTD passengers would prefer smaller planes, more frequently, than larger planes, more rarely. That's why the FFP Dart is nice, it goes as fast as it should, but it's relatively small. Likewise the Concorde, it's relatively small but really fast, and they like that.

For large numbers of passengers, I tend to use trains because they are cheaper, more efficient, and almost as fast if you aren't going all the way across the board becuase their station handling is more efficient.