Hello,
Many AirlineSim players recommend setting waves. But I doubt the usefulness of waves in large and geographically-distributed (there is a high-demand airport nearby everywhere) domestic markets, such as China, maybe also EU.
I am in Junkers as based at SHA, and I arrange flight schedules nearly randomly. But they are mostly full, even if there are 5 same p2p A320 flights in the same day. And there is a conterpart also based at SHA with higher courage; they leased lots of >20a secondhand B737s (which seems to be discouraged here) for p2p direct flights from any provincial capital to any other provincial capital, with >=3 flights a day, and these flights are also nearly full; and they expanded fast, overtaking me in 1 month.
I guess this is a special case of China (maybe also EU), we have one or two “central city” in any province and they are big enough to support a high-demand airport. And domestic demands are overall very high, while international demands are relatively low except a few airports. This makes - C(31, 2) - 1 = 464 (excluding PEK-TSN) direct lines from any provincial capital to any other provincial capital; if considering HKG, MFM, TPE, and some other big cities (SZX, TAO, NGB, WNZ, XMN, DLC, etc), this number will be more. And other cities usually have no or low-demand airports, with train/bus connections to airports of these big cities. This is in reality, I don’t know if these assumptions are the same in the game.
And the same also applies to the EU? I have another holding to run intra-EU flights (which I initially wanted to do interline, but obviously failed lol), and inside EU there are just many big cities fairly distributed geographically: CDG, BER, FRA, MAD, BCN, FCO, ATH, BUD, ARN, and PRG (which I am based on)… But the problem becomes somehow different since there are fierce competition in the EU market, and there are higher proportion of “international” (EU to outside EU) demands, so waving might be more important, maybe?
The real problem is my China holding has a sub-company located at Baku, I wanted to serve it as a stopover hub, which… makes waves really important.
And this is the first time I have played the game. It is just so fascinating.
Yours
John Franklin (Kuayueren)