Take off only where landed

[Brian F.]

You don't have to add passengers to use FSPassengers. You can still fly and log the time.

[Airliner]

Why to force the Amsterdam-Frankfurt leg in FSPassengers, if in real world the airplane would be empty with the exception of
crew??

In the real world, it would be unwise to fly a non-revenue flight anywhere. Except in cases of realignment after an incident or when you
need to get the aircraft in position for the next day, there's really no good reason to fly a plane empty. In fact, even in the second instance,
they are still revenue flights, not mere scheduled ferry flights. I recall a Southwest Airlines flight that came into KMHT as a terminator with
a full crew and ONE passenger! (Must have been fun!) Yes, the plane needed to terminate at KMHT but it was still a scheduled, revenue
flight - just that it was also late and there was obviously not much demand that day for that hour.

Especially with airlines cutting services while fuel prices continue to rise, I really don't know why an airline would ever want to
schedule a non-rev flight. Sounds like OPS, made an OOPS!

[hmdomingos]

Airliner wrote:

Why to force the Amsterdam-Frankfurt leg in FSPassengers, if in real world the airplane would be empty with the exception of
crew??

In the real world, it would be unwise to fly a non-revenue flight anywhere. Except in cases of realignment after an incident or when you
need to get the aircraft in position for the next day, there's really no good reason to fly a plane empty. In fact, even in the second instance,
they are still revenue flights, not mere scheduled ferry flights. I recall a Southwest Airlines flight that came into KMHT as a terminator with
a full crew and ONE passenger! (Must have been fun!) Yes, the plane needed to terminate at KMHT but it was still a scheduled, revenue
flight - just that it was also late and there was obviously not much demand that day for that hour.

Especially with airlines cutting services while fuel prices continue to rise, I really don't know why an airline would ever want to
schedule a non-rev flight. Sounds like OPS, made an OOPS!

Hi airliner, I agree with you... it's not wise to fly an empty airplane, but I also disagree...

I work in a small airport of mostly executive aviation, and it's not unusual at all for small jets to bring passengers here and go somewhere
else empty, or coming here empty to pick passengers, and that's what I meant with my post

[Airliner]

DOH! I was reading your post through the lense of a scheduled airline service! Forgot all about charter and

corporate

. I stand corrected!

[hmdomingos]

Thanks, I was already thinking that these guys here have no clue about how this works