Thank you for your explanations! That was an aspect I didn't pay really attention until now. This concept of TO and FROM seems a bit odd for me, as most passengers after travelling from A to B will travel back from B to A, at least in real life.
How are the shares of To and FROM passengers determined, especially in a case like this one, where I am the only one who provides this connection? Has it to do with loyalty and/or awareness?
You are right and all the pax in this game do round trips.
TO and FROM in this game is more of the concept of the flow from the home town to the destination city a pax is visiting
Therefore a pax from New York that take a transit flight via San Francisco to Tokyo , will be considered as taking a flight from New York TO SFO, and then SFO to tokyo. Even though eventually he would travel backwards for the returning flight.
This is useful to differentiate the "source" of the pax. For example for tourist destination, you will see a lot of "TO" pax to that airport but fewer "FROM", as most travelers are "visitors" instead of residents of that tourist destination
Hm, I understand, but don't get the logic completely. On all the international routes on which I fly without competition and without alliance connections, a majority of the passengers, often a clear majority, are from my HQ-country. And that even though the destination country is wealthier. Are people just more likely to fly with their "national airline" and the people at the foreign country stay at home, if the connection is not operated by a company from their country? Is it the different loyalty, which of course is higher at my HQ than at my destination airports?
There are many factors that might affect that. The easiest way is to click through the "passenger Map" to understand the flow of passengers and where are they from (click it several times to rotate through all the options)
To list just a few factors that might have caused that:
1. The destination airport is a tourist spot (with high tourist charm)
2. Higher loyalty values in the from airports
3. Higher awareness in the from airports
4. Stronger network of in ur from airport
5. Other transits (pax takes transit even if it's from different airline/alliance, just less willing)
It really is a mix of many things - for example if u have better network say 10 domestic routes, and then one IC. then all those 10 other domestic airports will have higher loyalty and aware towards your airline, hence pax there will be more likely travel with ur airline vs pax from other countries
Again, observe the passenger Map can probably answer most of the questions