Extremely Low Load Factors
swiftus27:
-25% price on all tickets.
11 company image
I know that I am competing on some lines but ALL of my planes are flying with LFs in the 50%s.
Yikes?
Yb:
Quote from: swiftus27 on January 25, 2010, 02:43:14 AM
-25% price on all tickets.
11 company image
I know that I am competing on some lines but ALL of my planes are flying with LFs in the 50%s.
Yikes?
That is normal. My routes started on 35% and now are on 57%. People have to learn that you are flying somewhere ;)
hybridace101:
1. Find out if there is actually demand for your route. If supply (meaning all the available seats) is way more than demand, I suggest you look for another route. If a carrier is well established (i.e. it mounts multiple flights to a major destination in a day), you will have a problem going head-on with it especially if you are in your early days. Observe the graphic below and pay attention to Thursday's figures. I wouldn't be flying there until I have a high enough route image (as well as company image).
2. Next, do you have active marketing campaigns?
3. Temporarily decrease prices substantially but gradually increase them as you see fit.
swiftus27:
Hybridace... I want to say I appreciate the help.
In all honesty, I did write one of the newb manuals. http://www.airwaysim.com/forum/index.php/topic,9211.0.html
I am just referring to this game in particular.
Sigma:
I seem to be hitting these magical cutoffs... 33% on my longer flights and 50% on my shorter flights @ default pricing. They seem too exact to be simply chance. And I've never had them stay so low for so long, they simply aren't increasing even while RI and CI go up. Pricing decreases helped, but not much, and not as much as I've seen in previous games. It looks like passengers really aren't liking flying on these densely-configured planes for too long and aren't too keen on the dense props even on the shorter flights.
But it's still early yet. Hopefully things will turn around. At least with costs so incredibly low, even with a plane at 30% full I can turn a gross profit.
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