I am pretty sure Kahael has some hubs where he has 100% connecting traffic ;)
nah, best one is LIT with 95%. But have a look at AKs Hub at MSE on Tempelhof. US Airline, british Hub. Should be 100% connecting traffic.
nah, best one is LIT with 95%. But have a look at AKs Hub at MSE on Tempelhof. US Airline, british Hub. Should be 100% connecting traffic.
Only 98%. But I so wish I could get rid of those 2% to further increase profits.
Every direct pax is a bad pax.
But I have other hubs that run at 100%.
nah, best one is LIT with 95%. But have a look at AKs Hub at MSE on Tempelhof. US Airline, british Hub. Should be 100% connecting traffic.
I thought that was your Bird on Kaitak with that hub. My bad 
Thanks everyone for the help regarding this. A bit off topic but I am in to my second week now and suddenly my Image (dashboard Economy, Busniess, Cargo) has dropped slighty (about 1.5) compared to last week. Why could this be as I have not changed anything at all, except for increasing staff salary by 10% which it was 1 bar last week and still 1 bar this week.
Thanks everyone for the help regarding this. A bit off topic but I am in to my second week now and suddenly my Image (dashboard Economy, Busniess, Cargo) has dropped slighty (about 1.5) compared to last week. Why could this be as I have not changed anything at all, except for increasing staff salary by 10% which it was 1 bar last week and still 1 bar this week.
Slight decrease in image does not affect loads significantly. May be you acquired an older plane than the rest of your fleet and it started flying this week or you might have increased price for some routes.
Slight decrease in image does not affect loads significantly. May be you acquired an older plane than the rest of your fleet and it started flying this week or you might have increased price for some routes.
Nope, not acquired any planes and have not changed any prices. Like I say, I have not changed anything or added anything. Very bizzare :(
Depending on the mix of flights (different aircraft have different ratings) or over the time the state of your aircraft might be slightly lower and thus affecting the rating.
Depending on the mix of flights (different aircraft have different ratings) or over the time the state of your aircraft might be slightly lower and thus affecting the rating.
I joined 9 days ago. I leased 5 braand new CJR1000 NewGen at the same time. Nothing has been touched. Has to be some explanation, just wondering what it is...
Image is affected by:
Seat pitch (and seat size)
Aircraft age
Aircraft state (technical condition)
Aircraft type
Staff Mood
Flight Attendants
One of those must have changed. Maybe your maintenance provider is doing bad job and keeping your aircraft condition at low values. Or your staff mood had dropped. Quick fix is to boost staff mood to 5 green bars by douvli g wages for a week and adding flight attendants to your flights if you can. And change maintenance provider to a quality one.
Image is affected by:
Seat pitch (and seat size)
Aircraft age
Aircraft state (technical condition)
Aircraft type
Staff Mood
Flight Attendants
One of those must have changed. Maybe your maintenance provider is doing bad job and keeping your aircraft condition at low values. Or your staff mood had dropped. Quick fix is to boost staff mood to 5 green bars by douvli g wages for a week and adding flight attendants to your flights if you can. And change maintenance provider to a quality one.
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Staff Mood was at 1 bar from the get go. I increased their wages straight away by 10% and again this week I have further increased it by 10%. Currently they are being paid 10% above the National average and I am using the maximum required of attendants that is allowed per flight. Aircraft are brand new (I only started last week) and are in their 2nd week. No additional aircraft have been added. My maintenance is African which I had changed to that straight away when I joined last week so no changes there. Flight schedule etc all remains the same so condition drops to around 85% (the lowest I have see it) at some point during the day due to me having a 5hr maintenance block on 4 aircraft (2x3hr block on other aircraft).
What has happened is that on a couple of flights the raiting and ORS has dropped by 1 point. Now what could have caused this given the info above as this has obviously affected the overall image rating
African is not good provider to keep aircraft at highest possible condition. Wages should have been doubled the first week to get best possible mood. You can still double them now to get the effect. You can lower them later to country average plus something, once you have 5 green bars in employee mood.
African is not good provider to keep aircraft at highest possible condition. Wages should have been doubled the first week to get best possible mood. You can still double them now to get the effect. You can lower them later to country average plus something, once you have 5 green bars in employee mood.
Okay I have now adjusted those wages. What I do not understand is why if the Staff Mood was 1 bar last week (when I started the game) and is 1 bar this week with a 10% increase above national average, why would my image decline if staff morale was already at it's lowest? On a side note, it seems ridiculous that the game should start your staff off with 1/5 Mood when they haven't even taken flight yet and are paid 10% above national average. Surely the game should start with 3/5 staff mood and then it either goes up/down depending upon how you pay them.
Okay I have now adjusted those wages. What I do not understand is why if the Staff Mood was 1 bar last week (when I started the game) and is 1 bar this week with a 10% increase above national average, why would my image decline if staff morale was already at it's lowest? On a side note, it seems ridiculous that the game should start your staff off with 1/5 Mood when they haven't even taken flight yet and are paid 10% above national average. Surely the game should start with 3/5 staff mood and then it either goes up/down depending upon how you pay them.
Don’t forget about the red side of the ratings.
Why is "a direct pax a bad pax"?
In small countries there is no choice, you can´t offer direct flights between two other countries. In this case 70-80% connecting pax is a good value. But when playing in the US, the EU or China, with more than 50% connecting pax I would think about offering direct flights for the busiest destinations. Every direct flight is a strong argument against your competitors.
Regarding costs, I have compared many regional airlines in Europe at the beginning of Hoover. Those with hubwaves offered 15-30% less flights with the same fleet size. This amount depends of course on the cleverness of a hub system, but a point-point-schedule is always more efficient.
There are good arguments for both, it depends on the situation. My airline wouldn´t be the No. 5 in Europe, if the no-waves-concept was wrong.
Both ways are OK if course. It is not true that a wave system is less efficient than a point to point system. If you know how to schedule it then both systems can and will work. I prefer and recommend waves but everybody can and should decide for himself.
Why is "a direct pax a bad pax"?
In small countries there is no choice, you can´t offer direct flights between two other countries. In this case 70-80% connecting pax is a good value. But when playing in the US, the EU or China, with more than 50% connecting pax I would think about offering direct flights for the busiest destinations. Every direct flight is a strong argument against your competitors.
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Generally, the more directs you have the less controllable (calculable) your hub gets.
In case of the aforementioned hub: 2% directs from/to the hub equals to 2% unsalable seats on the feeder/connector. It’s a traffics rights thing there.
Of course, on relatively new and still growing servers like Hoover this is less relevant. Wild scheduling, relying on directs with max utilization of air frames often yields the best profit. But give the server more time or try to enter an old grown server with such approach and things might (will!) be different.
It of course also strongly depends on where you start your airline. But particularly in the EU Treaty it is hard without some schedule structure.
But I think we’re going a bit off topic now.
What do you mean with "less controllable"? Point-point-traffic is the easiest to controll. In a hub system you can only guess from where to where your passengers go. In a point-point-concept you see them clearly. One of its advantages.
My experience is exactly the opposite: At the beginning hubs work fine because passengers have no choice. But the more direct routes are implemented, the more passengers will switch to these direct flights. And particularly in the EU treaty I would never use hub waves. Waves are helpful if you have no traffic rights between neighbouring countries - but if hou have these rights, I dont see any reason for not catering the demand directly.
I´m not arguing against hub waves, I use them as well. What I´m arguing against is the religion of the one and only holy strategy. It does not exist.
This what you name "holy strategy" is not provided by anyone here. You have another opinion than others - would be nice if you could also respect that players are scheduling with waves and that this is also a way to play.
There exist many ways to fly to Rome.
Well, intra-EU is like intra-US or intra-China. You still use hub waves as flying to 1-2-3 and even 4-bar airports would be unprofitable to fly even from A-demand airports without support of waves and transit pax.
African is not good provider to keep aircraft at highest possible condition. Wages should have been doubled the first week to get best possible mood. You can still double them now to get the effect. You can lower them later to country average plus something, once you have 5 green bars in employee mood.
I followed your advice and maxed out the wages and it worked, so thank you. Now, my staff are at 5bars so when can I reduce my salary and by how much, but still keeping the 5bars?