Individual Travel Request Generation (point-2-point)

What?

This is the full-fledged version of Individual Travel Request Generation (bulk) and at the core of the ASTD project.

As the name suggests, point-2-point travel requests would also include origin and destination, travel date and return date, among several other advanced parameters (like for cancellations/no-shows). Then, an individual search for possible connections is triggered for each and every such travel request. Generation wouldn’t happen for a single airport once a day, but passengers would “book naturally” over time, possibly taking into account day and night time patterns (bookings from a particular region will predominantly happen when it’s daytime in said region).

Why?

It is a prerequisite for reaching the full potential of the Distribution System in that it allows full return itineraries from locations not bound to specific airports. Especially for low-cost models, this makes a huge difference. It also makes traffic a lot more dynamic, as currently the destinations of an airport are a fixed set that doesn’t change (at least not on a regular basis).

When?

Whether we will be able to transplant this into current-gen AirlineSim is somewhat open. We pulled a lot of tricks to make it work in ASTD and we might just not get it to work in the existing system, but we’d certainly love to try.

This feature will allow smaller airports to be much more viable than with the system we have now
Is this feature expected to increase demand for otherwise small airports?

In proper point-2-point request generation, airports won’t have demand of their own to begin with. Demand will depend on the population in the surrounding area. So demand will likely be different in many places, but not higher or lower per se.

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I hope also tourism will also yield demand, because for example, GVA’s environment doesn’t have huge population, but it gets a lot of tourist passengers

I also wish it’ll still be at least somewhat viable to operate also in less populated areas

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