Flight Planning
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Once you're all set up with regards to aircraft, staff and service, it's - finally - time to get your aircraft flying. This can be extremely simple or extremely complicated, depending on where you are, what your airline is trying to achieve, how competitive an environment you're in etc; this tutorial will focus on getting a basic flight plan up and running, but a lot of the more advanced concepts should be pretty self-evident by the time you're through with it.
Procedure
The first step is to choose the aircraft you want to assign flights to; to do this, navigate to Enterprise → Fleet Mangement → Fleets, and then jump to the fleet that contains the aircraft you want to work with; new aircraft are, by default, placed in a fleet called 'Default', so that's the first place to look if you're still a little lost. Once you've found the list, select view to display the aircraft in the fleet, and then click on the details button to take you to the aircraft's flight plan view.
Once the flight plan view has loaded, you can begin to plan flights; the easiest way of doing this, to start with, is probably by using Schedule New Flight toolbox below the flightplan itself; select the create new flight number option, choose a flight number (1-9999), an origin and a destination, when you want the flight to run, and press Schedule Flight - don't worry about the pricing or service options for now, as we'll cover them a little further on.
Once the flight has been saved, you should be back at the flight plan view, with a series of large and worryingly red boxes standing out at you - don't panic! That's the flight you just added - you can click on it to view details of the route itself, which is where you can edit the prices you're charging for the flight and the on-board service, either for that particular flight or for the route as a whole. In the meantime, however, you should probably go back and add a return flight to the airport the aircraft started from - the flight is being displayed as red because the aircraft won't be at the original airport when it needs to fly again! Once you've done that - either with a single return flight or a complete day's flying - the flights should display as orange; that means that the flight plan is ok, but it hasn't been activated yet. We'll get on with activating the flights on the next page!
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