Airline Club

Negative slots are new to you? I see them often (though mostly just -2 or -3, not -15). One factor I think could be lower loyalty, maybe due to an ageing fleet.

Another factor I am thinking about - and I would like to see patson's opinion on this - could be the max. number of slots at an airport. As more routes are added to a certain popular airport I would guess that at a certain point the max. number of slots is reached. If that happens I would guess that the number of slots you get with a certain base scale at that airport is sinking, even if all other factors are stable.

Think i have removed the total # of slots so it shouldn't affect calculation

I agree that the limiting factor for slots in HQ should eventually be the overall flight quality for ALL routes flying in and out of that airport.

Take note that overall flight quality = service quality (company wide) + airplane condition + per route service level (stars)

So there could be several things that could lower the overall quality:

1. Unchanged service investment but increased flight capacity - if you are expanding ur spending would need to keep up with it otherwise service quality to fall gradually
2. Airplane aging - from 100 to 70% could still result quite a bit of loss (maybe -10?) That can still mean a huge diff if ur base is large say u have 500 slots, 10% quality drop = -50 slots
3. Maybe some new routes are added to the city with lower server level (stars?)

So yeah...if u have a high # of slots even a subtle change (several %) of overall flight service will trigger noticeable drops in slots

HTH

Quote from: patson on February 12, 2019, 11:08:54 am

Think i have removed the total # of slots so it shouldn't affect calculation

Hm, what do you mean by that? Does that mean that the total number of slots at an airport (e.g. 4000 at YVR, 8000 at JFK, etc...) have no meaning for the simulation? So there could e.g. be more than 8000 weekly flights at JFK?