onboard service
once again, you have to find a balance between benefit of a higher rating (basically, a higher price you can demand for tickets later) and costs per seat for you.
again, you can go into as much micromanagement as you like. There is an optimum or two for each and every route. Again, I don't do that. I define service levels for certain ranges. AS already gives some ranges as certain services are only available if the flight has a certain minimum range. So warm meals, for instance, are only available on flights longer than 800km, additional entrees only above 1500km.
you should definately play around with the service, as you can safe money here. It might not sound a lot to change the per-pax costs by 5$, but multiply that with 80 seats, 7 days a week and 12 flights a day times the number of your fleet size...
I usually define onboard services for
- flights up to 800 km
- flights up to 1500km
- flights up to 3500 (+/- 500) km
- longhaul depends on the country I operate from and the destinations
now, how does the rating react to changes you make?
It appears to me, that you can approximate the results by assuming a basic function behind it. my assumption here is:
rating: r = a - b *x^2, while a appears to be mostly influenced by your choices in the left column, and b by your choices in the right column.
in other words: the left column increases the base value, the right column "stretches" it to longer distances.
and here, as with everything else, it is only one factor that plays into your ORS rating.