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Quote from: "Mawifo"When is the data for passenger demand updated? When I go to edit my routes now, it lets me require a larger amount of money for ticket prices, and still get a loadfactor of 100%.
Another thing that changes and allows you to raise prices is the "hub effect". As you create more routes from your base you attract more passengers that can take advantage of the added number of connections. Demand goes up, so do prices.
A starting airline has few routes. When you go from, say, 8 to 16 routes, you're doubling the number of connections you offer. This may have an important effect on prices. When you go from 100 to 108 the same 8 new routes now represent a very small growth, so the effect is barely noticeable.
Be aware that editing a route costs money. The first time you edit a route in any given month you pay what's called "Marketing costs". Stop editing routes when the increase in profits is not enough to cover those marketing expenses. You can viw how much you've spent creating and editing routes if you follow this link: http://www.airlinemogul.com/airlinemogul/view_department.php?id=Marketing
I believe I know which thread you're talking about. Thanks for the answer.
When is the data for passenger demand updated? When I go to edit my routes now, it lets me require a larger amount of money for ticket prices, and still get a loadfactor of 100%. Is this done every day (hour), or every month (day)? Also, I realize that on some of my routes, when I change between say $ 459 and $ 460, there is a small change in income (say about $ 120). However, the loadfactor changes from say 100% to 99.25%. Would it be smarter for me to go with the route costin $ 460/fare and get 99.25% loadfactor, or should I go with the $ 459 and get 100% loadfactor? Does the loadfactor have any influence on my economics, or is it just there to tell me how well I'm doing on the different routes? Thanks.
Quote from: "Mawifo"Quote from: "dktc"hint: you can still rent out gates, in airports you don't have gate, with negative cash.
That's cool. Thanks for the hint.
So at least one player learned today that high frequency does not mean high income.
Admin > Click here to view your airline's routemap
hint: you can still rent out gates, in airports you don't have gate, with negative cash.
After only doing 1 fr. on all my routes, and bying gates, I've raised my DOP from roughly $ 144k to $ 314k.
Quote from: "Mawifo"I'm a newbie here, and thought it was interesting to seet his topic. I only own one plane, and I lease another one. The one I own is a BAe-146-100, while the one I lease is a Fokker F27-500. I have 2.5+ frequency on all of my three routes, and I don't get why that is so bad? I don't have the money to buy gates all over the place, while still saving up to lease another aircraft. An simple explanation for a newbie would be nice.
You can make more money if you fly (A=your hub; B and C are airports of similar size):
A->B freq.1
A->C freq.1
instead of flying:
A->B freq.2
Offering more freq (=seats) means you need to lower the fare to fill your plane. Its kinda like having competition to yourself. If you have competition on your freq2 routes they will lower THEIR fare to get their planes filled. This will cause a massive drop in LF on your aircraft. You now adjust your fare and the same starts again. Having freq2 or higher usually causes a very fast dropdown in fares = less money you will have in your pocket.