Passenger demand?

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1

Hi everyone.

I’m wondering how the passenger demand is calculated - is it daily, weekly or monthly? I do know that tickets is sold 3 days ahead, but I’m just wondering the following:

It’s not realistic to fly a plane from Copenhagen to Corfu, daily for example. But on a weekly basis, there would be a sufficient demand, to fill up a single plane (Around 150 people).

So my question is - does the number of passengers acumulate, and wait for a weekly departure, or is it sold at a daily demand only?

Thanks in advance, and sorry for my lack of english grammar.

2

Passenger demand does accumulate, given there are no or only few competitors and within the 3 days you stated. So you cannot accumulate the passengers of a whole week onto a single flight.

3

So the do accumulate - but only for 3 days? Is that correct understood?

4

yes

5

This makes a lot of sense to me now. And may also say a think a more real approach to scheduling I feel.

So if an airline only schedules one flight a week to a destination with no competitors, they in effect lose passengers for the other half of the week? So if they were getting a full load, would be safe to assume that if they scheduled another flight for the second half of the week it too would be full?? Or not?

6

depending on competition and your available connections, yes