Another kind of 0.5 frequency abuse?

[Air Klymaxia]

, but there's no way companies would do stuff like this IRL.

really? is that why airlines like singapore are technically operating multiple 0.5 frequencies into LHR each day?

b/c they pick up passengers at LHR and fly to the next destination?  I doubt they're sending the aircraft full and then back empty just to fill it up again.  It's not good business sense to fly YOW to YYZ with passengers, then fly back from YYZ to YOW empty to pick up passengers and fly back to YYZ, just to return empty again.

Unlike in AM, airlines schedule their rotues by week, not by day.  Time changes also mess things up.

Take a Qantas 747 flying SYD-LAX-SYD as an example.  The plane leaves SYD in the afternoon (Australia time) and gets to LAX in the morning (California time).  Due to time changes, curfews, connections, etc the plane can't depart on its return leg until the evening (California time).

So in a 24-hour period, it flys SYD-LAX (about 13-14 hours), then sits on the ground in LAX for the remaining time.  In AM, that would mean a 0.5 frequency on that plane, and every other plane operating the SYD-LAX route.  But Qantas actually operates SYD-LAX 3 times each day both ways using several 747's.  If you try to translate that into AM, you'd end up with 6 planes from the same airline running 0.5 frequencies SYD-LAX.

But in a real-life timetable it shows up as 3 full frequencies, and I'm sure customer demand treats it as such.  So the best way to deal with the issue in AM would be to group the 6x 0.5 frequencies together and make them have the same fare/profit as one 3x frequency flight.

That would be ideal, except that in AM that aircraft is magically reappearing at the departure airport again.  The game would have to "decomission" that plane on a 0.5 flight for a day to make it more realistic.  So that plane flying to say LGA to LAX would only fly every second day on a 0.5 flight.

[Max2147]

No, because the return route would also be a 0.5 route.

So a plane flys a 0.5 route SYD-LAX one day, then a 0.5 route LAX-SYD the next day.  However, due to AM's restrictions on where you can start routes from, the return LAX-SYD flight gets counted as a SYD-LAX flight.

The most realistic way to do it would be to give each plane a weekly schedule, complete with time of day, time zones, and restrictions on when you can fly.  But that would be way too complex for a webgame.