I try now to explain, without stream, how I am working to find an optimum AI contract with own planes. First I select the aircraft I want to buy in the shop. Then I set seat configuration first and business, so it is possible to set approximately the double amount for business.
But that means not to find so the best value for reward. Final desicion I do in the map. With high settings in first class, the distance range increase. But the amount of possible airports you can find contracts decrease, because a lot of them have less demands. So you have to change maybe several times the slider for settings of seat configuration. You can do this in the map also, as you know. I show it with an example for a B77W to look for a contract from my BKK to AKL (Auckland New Zealand).
I choose the airports for contracts for the own fleet so, that the amount for maintenance don´t exeed 7.2. This is the amount in the picture for the value “Wartung bei Hin- und Rückfahrt”. I choose airports which demands is in all setting positions (first, business and economy) higher than the airplane can deliver! We can see now, that AKL request 15 passenger for first class. So I change the settings and observe, if rewards from 3487+ “Einkunft pro Hin- und Rückflug” will change.
sometimes the rewards increase, if you choose not the highest possible amount for first. In this example you can see the setting for 13 first class is better!
This increase could also be for the settings of business, so you have to try out. So I could find maybe one of the best contract values for a B77W from BKK to AKL like this:
If you choose contract, which amounts of maintanance is higher than 7.2, so the costs for this service increase and the wollar rewards per flight decrease. You can see this for example I am looking for the same plane for a contract to SAN:
The amount for maintanance is 9.41. That means you have to pay for big service of 187000 Wollars when you reach at least contract level 8/8. With settings of 7.2 it is possible to reach the highest amount of possible contract level 10 and the expensive service is due after you have reached contract level 10/10 the first time.
So I hope I can help you with that a little. See you in the skys and have fun. For more questions write me a PN (personell message) at the chat, then we could make an appointment maybe for stream if necessary…