A new company starts its business in GATOW recently. Something very interesting happens:
On the route of PVG-PEK, I fly over 15 flights daily using brand new Boeing 787-8, in the reservation system my flight rating is 41 and Eq 86, with a price of 151AS$. The other company uses 20-year-old TU154, and rating of 40, Eq of 92,price of 200, outrank my flights. I have 5-star terminals on both sides of the route, and service profiles in Biz and economy class are both 4-stars/5-stars. I have huge internal and external networks on both sides, and that company has none.
I mean seriously? As a loyal player from the very start of this game 2 years ago I don't get how your reservation system works. It is just fairly unrealistic. New aircrafts+Good services+Cheap prices+ Better rating results in worse loading rate.
Well, there is a logic to it and quite many players have figured out basic workings of the system. Maybe you need to read more the forums, not just read but read between the lines, and think and analyze a lot and especially try and test the things and ask yourself a lot of what-if questions.
Check the factors which are important for ratings in ORS. As Rubio is writing, there is a logic behind it and yes, you can say that this is unrealistic, you might be right - but that's how it is.
you don’t have to read between the lines. how pax are distributed has been discussed and explained several times in several threads so the basics should be clear to anyone who bothers reading.
how to use it to your advantage is what differentiates the more successful players from the less successful (and I am not referring to exploiting). and although the pax distribution right now has its flaws, no doubt, the entire situation is highly realistic - companies (no matter new or old) are facing a given situation and given conditions. the company that best adapts to them is the one succeeding.