Hi
I have a feeder route SJJ-ZAG as a French airline. SJJ is not in the EU Treaty, so the route relied solely on connecting traffic through ZAG. This was very successful- the flights were usually 85-100% full of transfers. Suddenly (within one week), loads on these flights dropped 100% and now not a single passenger is connecting through ZAG. I think a major competitor has recently opened up SJJ, but to lose 100% of passengers within such a short timeframe is odd.
I also had a similar operation SKP-ZAG which experienced a 100% drop in pax at the exact same time. As far as I can see, there are no new operators in SKP.
Have I missed something?
A bug concerning traffic rights was fixed 3 weeks ago: http://www.airlinesim.aero/blog/2015/04/22/update-v6.2-72/
So you probably profited due to that before and now your traffic SJJ-ZAG-France isn't enough to fill your flight.
Ah, that would explain it. Thanks.
An other explanation can also be that a competitor entered the route or the ORS find better solutions for this route :)
An other explanation can also be that a competitor entered the route or the ORS find better solutions for this route :)
It’s as Spezialist said. Traffic rights were tightened up to conform to the rights that every company that isn’t based in a treaty area have. Previously, an Irish airline could fly AnywhereInTheEU-LHR and have passengers connect to the LHR-BOS flight on their own metal. However, they couldn’t carry traffic originating in LHR on that flight; all seats were transfers from elsewhere in the EU which took passengers away from a UK airline trying to do the same thing.
There’s nothing wrong with operating a foreign scissor hub, such as me (a Japanese airline) flying from every city in Japan to LAX, and offering onward flights to Mexican and Canadian airports. The difference from the above is that I have to offer enough capacity to overflow the Japan-LAX demand in order to have room for the transfer passengers.