I've been playing AS on and off for a year or two now and over my past few airlines I've started finding some sucesses. Problem for me is I usually get caught up in my sometimes extremely busy worklife and lose focus. Well anyway, I had a thought come to me while doing scheduling tonight. Using a hub (MSP) wave system I have setup my flights like this example: MSP-IAD-MSP-SLC-MSP and left enough of a stopover time that the IAD pax can transfer to the SLC flight while in MSP. Now my question is this: Will the fact that IAD-MSP-SLC is available as a connection fail because the reverse connection isn't available? Do the game pax see that they can't get "home" with my airline?
In other words i want to go A-B-A-C-A-D-A rather than having to go A-B-A-C-A-B-A.
Every journey a one-way journey. There’s no such thing as a return ticket in the game. Unfortunately, each and every one of your passengers stepped out of the terminal and was run over by a hotel shuttle.
But there’s nothing wrong, with your theory. I do @ my cargo operations. For example, my 747’s can only fly 3 times a week between Leipzig and Hong Kong. So while my plane is in Hong Kong, it serves other destinations, for example Hong Kong-Singapore.
So if you have the traffic rights, and you can jam in a short flight, which fills up just a little, do it!
Every journey a one-way journey. There's no such thing as a return ticket in the game. Unfortunately, each and every one of your passengers stepped out of the terminal and was run over by a hotel shuttle.
Gosh, I can't stop laughing reading this.. run over by hotel shuttle.. :D :D :D
they book one way trip on your airline, and because the return trip is not available, they buy a one-way ticket on a different carrier.
With the proliferation of low costs which always price one way, many legacy carriers especially in the USA adopted one-way pricing as well, so many times you find that Expedia etc price you a trip with outbound leg on one carrier and inbound leg on a different carrier.
Unfortunately most European legacy airlines still use the old RT pricing model, with the exception of some leisure-oriented airlines such as Air Berlin, Condor, or Norwegian International. Though none of the three are considered legacies anyway.
I never understood the logic of one-way trips in AS. I have lots of station pairs where I am definitely the only carrier operating the route, pricing and service same in both directions, there are no other airlines at the smaller station, and ORS says there is no ground traffic, and no other way to get from one to the other. Despite this, more PAX fly one way than the other way.
I never understood the logic of one-way trips in AS. I have lots of station pairs where I am definitely the only carrier operating the route, pricing and service same in both directions, there are no other airlines at the smaller station, and ORS says there is no ground traffic, and no other way to get from one to the other. Despite this, more PAX fly one way than the other way.
Being only one operating the route is not the same as being the only one operating to the airport. As long as there are other carriers flying to that airport, there will be competition and you will not capture 100% of the demand at that airport.
Also, statistically, no airport in the world has same arrivals/departures in pax numbers. For example Mexico Cancun there is a difference between arrivals and departures in pax number of over half a million passengers per year. Statistically also, routes A-B and B-A, even if summed for all airlines and combinations (e.g. A-X-B, A-Y-B, etc.) will not have the same passenger numbers. Some people fly way A-B in September and B-A in February, that will make two different counts in two different calendar years. Also some people travel back by bus, train, boat, whatever... or don't fly back at all. You will never have the same pax numbers on both legs of a journey. AS uses real life pax data for airports, so if arrivals to airport B exceed departures from airport B, you will have A-B booked by more pax than B-A.
Being only one operating the route is not the same as being the only one operating to the airport. As long as there are other carriers flying to that airport, there will be competition and you will not capture 100% of the demand at that airport.
Let me be more specific at the risk of repeating myself. My Lucaya Air on Meigs operates two flights a day from Nassau (NAS) to Andros Town (ASD), a 1* airport. There are no other carriers flying to Andros Town and ORS says there is no ground connection. Therefore there is no competition on this route, and no other way to reach Andros Town from anywhere except by flying Lucaya Air. Despite this, there is more traffic from NAS to ASD than in the reverse direction. This may make sense for the designers of the AS, but in real world terms it makes no sense whatsoever, unless the AS designers have secretly included some hotels somewhere to house all the snowbirds that are currently arriving in droves. Does that mean I can expect the traffic pattern to reverse just before the hurricane season starts?