In about two weeks we will hold our annual AirlineSim team meeting. We'll lock ourselves in a conference room for two days to discuss, plan and schedule the work we want to tackle over the next 6 to 12 months. This year, this planning session will be dominated by a single large feature complex that has been on the drawing board for several years now and will finally get realized this year.
Because completing this feature will take relatively long and there won't be much to show while we work on it, so we want to address smaller issues in parallel. The question is: What should be focus on? Which features need to get a rework the most? Where could small changes lead to big improvements?
To figure out the answers to these questions, we've set up a tiny survey with three simple questions. If you have a few minutes to spare, we kindly ask you to let us know your opinion. You can find the survey HERE. Thank you very much for you help!
Room for improvement: Shorter Turnaround times. Its taking tooo much time right now.
Features that could be implemented: Ability to transfer passenger on almost every airport, not only on 5bar or greater as it happens today. In real life this can be done (when we speak of domestic flights of course)
I would really like to see a new world with a time frame of 18-32 months (unlimited time gets boring after a while, and keeps people away from it as slots are no longer available)
Just as a hint: Most of your customers from China will not be able to participate, if you are using Google docs. That requires a working VPN.
I just completed the form :) . And I like the interlining preference idea very much. Could be implemented using a simple I/O button (preferred/normal) or a checkbox.
I’d also support preferred interlining. In the medium-term, I’d love to see revenue-sharing models like codeshares or JVs.
Airport lounges with catering, as an add-on to a terminal would also be nice. They’re a major part of how airlines market to F/C customers, as well as frequent flyers.
Is it possible to increase the range of ORS scores? It doesn’t take much to hit the cap of ORS100, after it’s unreapistically hard to compete (i.e. you can’t keep lowering prices or boosting service to compete on a route).
you guys realize that implementing a feature isn't just simply adding a checkbox to the user interface, right? some suggestions - while in themselves very interesting - are not as easily added as some make it sound.
just pointing that out for expectation management. keep the ideas coming. while not a member of the team, I'm a very interested player and I, too, am curious to see where this is going.
I really like the idea of preferential interlining that has been refered here.
But I also asked the team the possibility of doing something that could be called “selective interlining”, i.e. allowing you to choose wich of your flights are you willing to offer for connectivity to wich airlines you have an interlining agreement. The main reasoning for this is that when I interline I do not want to offer “for free” all of my network, only the flights where there could be a mutual advantage. This would act as a network balance, and avoid your network being exploited. As a side advantage it should also lower the costs for that kind of agreement.
On the implemention, in the user interface, this could be achieved on the connectivity chart currently available with perhaps some ticking\unticking boxes, or instead with a plain simple “interlining request” in wich one could ask for the specified flights. This feature should come as an advanced option, and by default all interlining should remain as it is.
Implementing this feature could also tackle the preferential interlining issue, adressing to your prefered partners\subsidiaries, the flights you want.
This is just a concept draft, any comments are appreciated.
Could not agree more, Yukawa. My rule of thumb is that the simpler an idea sounds in principle, the harder it is to implement in practice! Personally, I think the dev team do a pretty good job of providing clear feedback about why particular ideas are/are not more complex than they seem
I like to see the transfer time for domestic and international flight on _same_ airport with _same_ aircraft would be different. It is different in real life, at least you have to go through custom checking. And I don't want this becomes too complicated, for example, introducing US preclearence checking for certain airport, making the flights start from these airports can arrive in domestic area of a US airport.
I like to see the transfer time for domestic and international flight on _same_ airport with _same_ aircraft would be different. It is different in real life, at least you have to go through custom checking. And I don't want this becomes too complicated, for example, introducing US preclearence checking for certain airport, making the flights start from these airports can arrive in domestic area of a US airport.
This is actually a very good idea. Proabably two settings would cover most cases already, one for domestic to domestic (including EU/Schengen) and one for transfers that include international flights (domestic to international, international to domestic, international to international), with the latter needing 15 or 30 minutes more. Furthermore you could include smaller airports (e.g. regional airport size) for domestic-only transfers.
Inventory or Market Analysis, when using the tool "Airport Pair" on the left.
It's very easy when the origin is our HUB, in the sense that when selecting "next" or "previous" the origin does not change (example: HUB - destination A, select "next".... HUB - destination B, and so on)
The opposite though is not so instinctive, when we want to see the routes having our HUB as destination (right now if we have the pair origin A - HUB and select "next", we will have the pair origin A - destination whatever, that usually does not have any flights between them).
Would it be possible to have a tool that could fix the destination and then when selecting "next" we would change the origin but not the destination?
Something just like what F4 key does in an Excel spreedsheet...
