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I am so excited about this, I loved Aerobiz. I think we should sell our Tupolevs. They're awful and we can replace them with DC6's. We should use our Ilyushin planes for any profitable local routes where we already have gates. I think we should negotiate with Rome as our initial out of region expansion, as well as with Bangkok, which the DC6 can reach. Cairo is a third choice. We should get as many gates in Tehran as we can to force expansion, and also purchase slots in India, preferably Mumbai. Lastly, we should purchase the bus company.
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A_Raving_Loon posted:
That would be great. I like knowing what our competition is up to. According to some quick farsi-english dictionary searching for a dead stupid translation, Air-Ran would be پوییدن-جوّ, transliterated as Javv-Pooyeedan. I think it loses something in translation, though if anyone knows farsi I'm sure there's a more accurate one and maybe a similar pun? Of course, Air-Ran only works because we're mispronouncing Iran, but it still works. I don't get the love for Tunis, though yes I realize it's 1955 and that real life events are modeled ingame. It's not even the third best city on the North African coast (though they don't have anything in Morocco, so it's Tunis or Cairo). fake edit: Oh, and since we're starting in 1955 I guess we won't get to the revolution of 1978. Shah today and Shah forever!
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The Great Patriotic Administrators of Air Marx: From L to R: Lyudmila Pavlichenko: A hero of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War, Pavlichenko is still wracked at night by PTSD from the war. By day she's one of AirMarx's best negotiators, displaying the same iron will and savvy that made her such a feared sniper. When the woman across her table describes how she could kill you from half a mile away, it unnerves local airport officials and leads to quick business deals. Boris: Boris doesn't have a last name. No one really knows what he did before de-Stalinization in 1953. Behind his everyman looks are the dead eyes of a killer, however, and persistent rumors speak of time working beneath Beria. He also spends a surprising amount of time around Lubyanka Square when he's in Moscow. Ronislav Jeremitsky: This high ranking cadre member has this job because his lack of devotion to the ideals of the Party has made them shunt him away from Moscow in the hope that his capitalist sympathies can still somehow serve Mother Russia. His great appetites make him an expert schmoozer, and his kavorka spirit makes him surprisingly hard to resist at the negotiating table. Tatiana Blitznova: This fresh graduate of Moscow State University is endemic of the new generation of Russian who've come of age in the decade after World War Two. Fervently ideological, intelligent, and hard working, she considers herself a world above the decadent western wives who spend all day being leashed to the house of their husbands. habeasdorkus fucked around with this message at 10:11 on Feb 16, 2014 |
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I think this is a foolish waste of our startup capital. And do you remember what they did to Mossadegh not two years ago? They can go stuff themselves.
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Yeah, the setting up Rome while also cozying up to London puts us in a pickle, and why I opposed it. We should stick with Rome as our hub. We should also buy up slots in London, and create a Rome/London route. Since that will only take one turn of negotiating, we can then turn and add slots in Paris for a Rome/Paris route. One negotiator should absolutely buy facilities in Melbourne to profit off the Olympics, whichever the CEO believes will give us the most profit. For their second action they should be dispatched to either America or Asia to get slots for our next hub, but I am unsure as to which city would be best for that. Lastly, we should pick up hotels in London and Rome, both of which will be gigantic money-makers for us. Obviously we should keep adding routes to the places where we've bought airport slots.
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Feb 18, 2014 06:06
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Gabriel Pope posted:I vote we bid for slots in British Hong Kong and make a route to launch an Asian hub ASAP. We missed the boat on London but we can still make use of our relations boon. I second this idea.
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Feb 18, 2014 22:38
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StandardVC10 posted:Echoing the above, I would hold off on crossing oceans, build up the Rome hub. I also echo the above. We need to start rebuilding capital before we can expand into the western hemisphere. Africa is just not going to make us enough money right now to be worth the expansion. Connecting the UK friendly locations in Asia and the biggest Chinese cities is a good start Expanding flights in Europe is also a very good idea, I once again suggest Paris, followed by Berlin and Athens. I also support a single route from Rome to New York City, which will be a huge money-maker for us.
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Then let me withdraw my support for any American expansion. Let's focus on making money in Europe and Asia.
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I would like everyone to pay attention to the overhead projector. If one of the secretaries could dim the lights. 1) Switch to smaller planes in Europe as warrants. 2) Use those larger planes to either expand current routes or open routes in Asia that project to be the most profitable. 3) Focus on maximizing the potential of our current routes over expansion to any other new cities for the coming year. When we move into new areas we'll we want to be able to set up rapidly rather than piecemeal. 4) Dividend me some cash. I, uh, have expenses in Monte Carlo.
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A_Raving_Loon posted:All the other Airlines have chosen Tehran as their Mideast connection, though only ConAir has completed construction of their hub at this time. I don't mind us having some idea what's in the pipeline, we're a major airline and we'd definitely be getting sales calls from Boeing/Airbus/Ilyushin etc. that we should be interested in their upcoming models. The 707 was prototyped in 1954, and they were taking orders in 1955. The 707-320 has it's first flight in January 1958 and is in service by the middle of 1959, so we'd certainly be getting notes from Boeing about how they'd like us to put our orders in for their new jet. I also don't have a problem with knowing ingame that Rome has the Olympics because it was chosen as host in mid-1955 (1964's host is chose in May 1959). Stuff like the Suez crisis we shouldn't know about, there were tensions but no clue it would get so serious before it happened. I have no clue how to make that into any type of coherent rule, though, so if you want to outlaw spoilers that's also good.
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Routes and Planes and Bank. We're going to need money to expand, and I would like to see us be able to launch several plans at once. Of the potential routes HK/SYD seems the best option for a foothold in Oceania as well. Given that we're cash poor we should go Lockheed for HK/SYD. I would also like to ask when we will start paying a Dividend, I didn't buy up all these shares just to have to work for a living. I am also down for buying a Yacht if we can name it The Seaward but am otherwise uninterested. Gob out! /segways away habeasdorkus fucked around with this message at 19:52 on Mar 9, 2014 |
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A_Raving_Loon posted:
I'd like to cancel my bank vote, then, as that will get us closer to opening HKGSYD
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Mar 9, 2014 19:45
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I want a yacht! Boat!
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TheMcD posted:Pro-boat, Hong Kong. Let's get this done. Here here!
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I think the real issue is that we stopped buying boats. Just look at where our profit peaked! We bought one boat and then no more profit growth. I'm sure that Mark Penn would agree with me about this obvious correlation.
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Jun 5, 2014 07:18
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Vaga42Bond posted:I nominate Airman Mao, flying out of Beijing, in People's Glorious Red. I'm behind this 100%! Inflight entertainment is selected passages from the little red book! If that doesn't win enough votes, shift me over to AirLenin.
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I read the entire update aloud to myself in a bad Russian accent. I believe our first order of business is buying a dacha in Crimea and a ZIL to transport us about. As for business plans, we should expand into Switzerland and focus on facilitating transit between the best available European cities. We should also seek to improve Sino-Soviet relationships by expanding to Beijing and Shanghai when feasible. eta: Also, if double chin there isn't an Oleg then I don't know who is.
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I can sign onto that so long as we still get dachas and limos. Oooh, and caviar.
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I concur that boats are for Capitalist Running Dogs and should not be a part of the glorious socialist revolution in air travel.
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my dad posted:Consolidate. Once you've got a route to Oceania, focus on profit. Only establish new routes if you can get a good return on them. Purchase new aircraft as needed to fill out profitable routes. Finish your remaining objectives when the situation permits. I concur. Rome wasn't built in a day, and nor is the revolution.
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