Posted by: Andrew
« on: April 12, 2019, 09:53:17 am »Free ticket is allowed. If someone wants to get passengers so badly, it's a legit option. However no negative price is allowed (ie giving out money to passenger)I gotta admit I didn't understand all of it.
The simulation is a bit complicated, it's hard to explain in simple terms but for each virtual passenger there's a "true cost" (consider all the connections, ticket price, lounge etc), that "true cost" can never be negative, otherwise passenger will indeed just travel back and forth on the same route until all seats are taken.
It's actually reasonable - consider an airline give $1000 away for each flight a passenger take, some people will just take that as a job and fly back and forth to get the money lol
So the simulation is indeed doing the right thing and handling it correctly - even back in the days that negative pricing was allowed. However i wanted to BAN this behavior so i artificially prevent negative "true cost" to avoid that and also set restriction of ticket price to be non-negative
HTH
So for the "true cost", if the ticket price is 0 but other factors combined make the true cost negative, what would happen.
Also, I asked this question because I see one of my competitors setting his price to 0 on a bunch of routes, and thus getting full load. But when I also set my price to 0, I barely get any passengers, even though I have a higher route reputation and our connections are mostly similar. So I'm confused why that's happening.