Do I really have to go through all stations on all servers and manually move flights to T1 whenever my terminal is overbooked?
Bad news: yes.
Good news: As there will be no cancellations in the near future, you have got some time to do this without any disadvantages until then.
Alternatively you can increase the terminal size, provided you have the funds. This is very easy: For own terminals, next to the red overbooking warning on the station page there will be a link that leads you straight to the terminal page, with the "Extend Building" form already pre-filled with the needed additional capacity. And there is even a checkbox (also pre-selected) that will allocate the new capacity for yourself once it's available.
Just kidding. It goes more like this:
- On the station page you can see which terminals are overbooked, but you don't see who owns them. So you first have to find out if the terminal is owned by your enterprise, any of your other enterprises or a third party. It would have been easy to display this information on the station page (in fact it was displayed before Version 6.2), but AS decided to make it more
cumbersomeinteresting. - So you
click on the terminal to open the terminal pagememorize the terminal number, switch to the "Ground Services" tab and find the terminal on a page that used to be more or less clearly laid out, but no longer so. - If the terminal is owned by your enterprise you can
click on the terminalswitch to the "Facilities" tab and find your terminal again (in a list that is at least considerably shorter). You can actually skip step #2: if the terminal isn't your's, you won't find it, but you will still have to find out who owns it. - You locate the
details buttontiny little arrow at the right side of the table and try to hit it with your mouse/finger/whatever you have. Not as easy as it looks, but you get better once you have done this a few hundred times. - Provided you did hit the arrow, you are now on the terminal page where you can start the terminal extension. (You did memorize the information how much additional capacity you need, right? Because it's not anywhere near that page, and it's certainly not pre-filled.)
When you commence the extension you can check a box indicating that the additional capacity shall be booked for your own use once the extension is complete.- You
will get notified when the extension it's completeneed to memorize that an extension is underway, because if you don't you will end up with unused terminal capacity that you paid for but will only be able to find again by sequentially checking all stations, err... all facilities at all stations. They didn't want to make it too easy. - You will also need to memorize the time when the extension will be completed. This is displayed on the terminal page after you commenced the extension. Or isn't it? Wait, it's on the "Facilities" tab on the station view.
- Now there's time for a little math. The completion time is in UTC, hub time or local station time, whatever your settings are. But probably not the time zone where you live in the real world. So you need to translate that manually to an instruction like "I need to log in after 7am tomorrow morning to allocate the new terminal capacity to my airline." This is easier if you were quick-witted enough to set up your airline in a small country with only one timezone. (Singapore qualifies.)
- Repeat Steps #1-9 for every station where you have terminals. It's not enough to check only those where the capacity number is red because you may well be using two terminals where one's overbooked but the total capacity would suffice, hence the warning will only be on the details page, not in the station list.
But never worry: As FlyHigher said, you will have some time to do this.
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Thanks for the in-depth description...it will help greatly in improving those processes ;)
Well, you can easily see the stations which are overbooked on the stations page. You can see the Capacity of that station and next to it the assigned handling capacity. So you only need to check these stations.
But I agree, that the whole process has some areas of improvements.
No, you can't. This was pointed out in earlier threads, and also here. In the stations overview you can have stations with overbooked terminals that are not marked, and vice versa.
No, you can't. This was pointed out in earlier threads, and also here. In the stations overview you can have stations with overbooked terminals that are not marked, and vice versa.
For Matth and others to understand this in simple words:
Imagine you run 100,000 pax in ABC.
You have two contracts from 2 suppliers: 50,000 and 60,000 (total 110,000)
Imagine you have 55,000 assigned to a 50k terminal and 45,000 assigned to a 60k terminal
So total pax is 100,000 and you have 110,000 contracted so this would not show as overbooked for ABC in station overview
but one of the terminals indeed is overbooked.
Thanks rubiohiguey2000, and the vice versa situation in the same simple words:
Imagine you run 100,000 pax in ABC.
You have one terminal with a capacity of 50,000.
Imagine you have 45,000 assigned to that terminal.
So total pax is 100,000 and you have 50,000 contracted so this would show as overbooked for ABC in the station overview
but the terminal is in fact not overbooked.
Got it
I'll probably add a new overview to the main stations page that lists capacities on per-terminal basis in one of the upcoming patches.
Guys,
I just noticed this thread while browsing. Is this for real? Flights will be cancelled if terminals are overbooked???
I always assign more PAX to terminals than they can handle,simply because my flights are normally about 85% full. For this reason if an airport has 1000 pax i build a terminal with 850 capacity. Previously we only got charged for what was actually used meaning this strategy made business sense! Nearly ALL of my flights will be cancelled if this rule comes in, so it needs to be made very clear. It will take me probably an entire day to change all my flights manually which I dont have time for.
Chris
Guys,
I just noticed this thread while browsing. Is this for real? Flights will be cancelled if terminals are overbooked???
I always assign more PAX to terminals than they can handle,simply because my flights are normally about 85% full. For this reason if an airport has 1000 pax i build a terminal with 850 capacity. Previously we only got charged for what was actually used meaning this strategy made business sense! Nearly ALL of my flights will be cancelled if this rule comes in, so it needs to be made very clear. It will take me probably an entire day to change all my flights manually which I dont have time for.
Chris
For now, there’s an grace period in place to give us time to adjust. (see here.) Cancellations will occur if USED (emphasis mine) capacity exceeds booked capacity (same source for info), which isn’t much different than before, except we face cancellations instead of falling back to default AS handling. As AS is a passenger-oriented game, overbooked cargo still defaults back to AS handling.
Annoying, but not apocalyptic.
Thanks, that makes sense. Will still have to double check my terminals haha
Dont even think about the cost involved building terminals on each station you are running as hubs. We are talking a huge amiunt of AS$.
Mike
Dont even think about the cost involved building terminals on each station you are running as hubs. We are talking a huge amiunt of AS$.
Mike
Why would you do this when you cannot afford it?
If you have multiple contracts.. it's practically impossible to find which one is overbooked.. nor can you get an overview of the flights using it.. I think you could in the previous version.
Can you elaborate on this?
I don’t get your point. That’s what I see …
