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virtuali:

--- Quote from: Bruce Hamilton on August 11, 2011, 01:28:45 pm ---but there are a lot of potential customers practically begging for certain airports like Houston Intercontinental, and nobody of any quality seems interested.  A golden opportunity should be seized.
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That the potential customers are "a lot ", it's not confirmed by the cold hard facts, which are the actual sales numbers.

Unless you mean that, if a customer is really "begging" for his favorite airport, he would be prepared to buy it a 5x the price, which would be the only way to balance the lower numbers compared to a large hub.

laxclipper:
I wish that instead of Hawaiian Airports Vol 1 or 2 they would have tried smaller airports in the mainland. Why not start a poll? I really support FSDT and their excellent quality that's why I bought all their airports and I intend to buy any other airport they make.
I seriously think that a Poll would help at least to give the FSDT an idea of what we would like.

Thanks

Edgar

Bruce Hamilton:

--- Quote from: virtuali on August 11, 2011, 04:15:36 pm ---Unless you mean that, if a customer is really "begging" for his favorite airport, he would be prepared to buy it a 5x the price, which would be the only way to balance the lower numbers compared to a large hub.

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Shouldn't need to pay five times the price, if you're making four times the quantity.  Those four Hawaii airports were pretty quick to produce, and could've been sold as individual airports.  If you can produce four small airports in the time it takes to do one large hub, each airport only has to sell a quarter of what the large hub sells for you to break even.

PUP4ORD:

--- Quote from: virtuali on August 11, 2011, 04:15:36 pm ---
--- Quote from: Bruce Hamilton on August 11, 2011, 01:28:45 pm ---but there are a lot of potential customers practically begging for certain airports like Houston Intercontinental, and nobody of any quality seems interested.  A golden opportunity should be seized.
--- End quote ---

That the potential customers are "a lot ", it's not confirmed by the cold hard facts, which are the actual sales numbers.

Unless you mean that, if a customer is really "begging" for his favorite airport, he would be prepared to buy it a 5x the price, which would be the only way to balance the lower numbers compared to a large hub.

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Keep in mind Umberto that while large hub airports are great, The small ones are much in part a factor as well. :)

virtuali:

--- Quote from: Bruce Hamilton on August 11, 2011, 04:48:11 pm ---Shouldn't need to pay five times the price, if you're making four times the quantity.  Those four Hawaii airports were pretty quick to produce, and could've been sold as individual airports
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It's enough checking the relevant backdoors, to verify how wrong is this:

Hawaii1 was announced in January 2010, and released in October, 9 months.
work on Hawaii2 started shortly after that, and was released in July 2011, another 9 months.

KLAX was announced in October 2010, and will probably be released in August 2011, roughly 9 months, and this is taking so much, because we tested an entirely new development method, JFK was made in less than 6 months, KDFW took about 7 months. PHNL took 7 months also, from the same developer of Hawaii1/2

There's a lot of overhead that doesn't depend on the airport size, which is collecting pictures and any other data, setting up a project, writing documentation, installers, etc and, on top of that, people expect more attention to detail to small airports, so they end up being as long to develop that large ones, but they sell roughly a quarter.

So no, the economics of small airports are not favorable, and this proven by facts.

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