Different time windows for scheduling

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Hi,

with the return traffic thing I could use a different scheduling frame a lot.

7 days is a uneven number and even a prime number.

If that 7d could be flexible it would be appreciated.

If the “ground frame” could be something between 1d and 10d (you are planning for a 10d window for instancing?) it would allow repeating schedules that repeat each 1/2/3…10 days.

Maybe if you have to touch it you extent the schedule to 10d and just add a tool “repeat the first x days”. Similiar to the ticking the weekdays thats available now.

What is it for. I have to come back to the small shitty airports again. There is one or two that have seen some traffic before the patch. Now I try to get the traffic back. For that it would help if the flight times would repeat each 2nd or 3rd day. (One day the plane flies at 6 next, next at 2 and third day on 10). So - esp. with the return traffic thing all passengers that fly in from connecting airports could find a return connection with one of the outbounds. (Given that the connecting time is still 8h max). Repeating each 2nd or 3rd day would be also welcome once the location thing is in place. 1st day you fly airport 1 in a city 2nd day the 2nd in that city… Of course even now it would be nice if there was a 2d schedule (tool) available. You could plan a schedule for all days but for that specific time slot in the morning you say alternate it between those two airports in the same big city.

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The idea is that this will get addressed indirectly by Auto-Ops as scheduling is week-based by nature (as it’s the case in reality) while operating a weekly schedule is a…well…operational issue.

In case you meant to actually operate a flight every second day: I don’t think that’s something that exists in reality, no? It would mean that flights operate on a different day each week.

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I am not sure about reality.

But with the new return restriction I wish I could schedule a flight each 2nd or 3rd day.

Day 1 at 8, Day 2 at 16 and day 3 at 0. In such a case you could connect most airports incoming and outgoing. Given, that some connections are still daily etc.

4

It reads a bit like you’re trying to design around specifics of the current state of Paine. Which likely makes little sense, as return traffic distribution is still very much in flux.

5

Yes, of course :-). As learned in economics: People react to incentives.

If the mechanism changes I might not need that feature (but it would be still nice to have it available).