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losgatitospeligrosos

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Connecting Passengers
« on: August 09, 2018, 08:53:12 pm »
Is there a good way to increase the portion of your passengers willing to connect at a hub? I've added service to a bunch of smaller cities in my home country that few or no other airlines service, and I was expecting a lot of connecting passengers as my airline is the only one there. So far though, not so much. Does frequency of flights matter? Is a 7 PAX plane flying 14x/week better than a 30 PAX plane flying 3x/week, for example?

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Re: Connecting Passengers
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2018, 09:36:16 pm »
>> Does frequency of flights matter? Is a 7 PAX plane flying 14x/week better than a 30 PAX plane flying 3x/week, for example?
Yes. Frequency matters! however, it's a combination of the previous flight and the next flight, the penalty is calculated by the MAX of those 2 values. (therefore if the international airline flies very frequently to your hub, then you are probably Okay to have infrequent flights - as most passengers can just time the inbound flight so the layover is bearable). On the other hand, if the international airline doesn't fly too frequently to ur hub, increasing the frequency on your end would help. Now the question is how to figure out frequency of competitor - the departures board will give u some hints ;)

>> Is there a good way to increase the portion of your passengers willing to connect at a hub? I've added service to a bunch of smaller cities in my home country that few or no other airlines service, and I was expecting a lot of connecting passengers as my airline is the only one there.
This is because the virtual passengers around the world probably has no idea about your airline! Virtual passengers become "aware" of certain flight service by either one of 2 ways:
1. The airline has presence in their city - that is called awareness
2. The airline is known internationally  - this is called reputation

As for the 1., it's very hard for you to establish service in every single town in the world so you would want to work on 2. - to make your airline more famous in the world :)

Hope this helps!  :D

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losgatitospeligrosos

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Re: Connecting Passengers
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2018, 09:54:15 pm »
That's very helpful. I didn't realize the destinations board was so important strategically besides being fun to look at. Does the player have influence in when routes are scheduled throughout the day?

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Re: Connecting Passengers
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2018, 09:58:50 pm »
Scheduling is a bit hard to implement and be honest i played some other similar games and it quickly becomes a burden instead of adding fun factor to the game

So i have a good excuse to not implement that lol

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Re: Connecting Passengers
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2018, 11:10:46 am »
I've noticed the same with my hub. I started out as a regional feeder airline. I ran high frequency flights from smaller cities to the hub so they could connect to some of the larger airlines. I noticed that as i increased my flights my passenger numbers increased. Now that i am starting to break out of the "feeder" phase and starting to operate my own aircraft my longer flights are starting to fill more frequently because of the frequency from the outlying, smaller cities
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Re: Connecting Passengers
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2018, 01:47:29 pm »
Yes higher frequency flights are more appealing to passengers in general! :)

Some other random facts:
1. Higher class passengers might be willing to downgrade to one lesser class if no suitable class is found (or if the lower class is very appealing), but never two classes, ie a business class passenger might be okay with taking economy class but first class passenger is only okay with downgrading to business
2. Even though short haul domestic flight shows no demand of business/first class seat, it might still make sense to put some (at least business class seats) for those route. Because international travelers take domestic shorthaul connection flights too, and some might be looking for business/first class seats first

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