[-] Disallow multiple bases in same city/geographical area?
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jacobsroom:
In real life, airlines would not be allowed to dominate multiple airports that served a single city (EWR/JFK/LGA, Berlin Schonefeld and Tegel, IAD/DCA, LHR/LGW, etc. etc.) on the grounds that this would stifle competition. However, in ATB, I'm seeing a number of airlines with base airports that do just this.
Perhaps it would make sense to set things up such that an airline with a base airport in one city cannot set up another base airport in the same city? This would make things more realistic as well as prevent airlines from blocking access to an entire city's/region's airports.
Cheers!
Daveos:
I can see why you have requested this as it is unlikely that an airline would operate large hubs in close proximity, but the demand model at the moment does not take the proximity of neighbouring airports into consideration, so until that is developed it would be difficult to implement.
There are some world cities where this does occur including London, where BA (due to the slots at LHR) dominates both LGW and LHR. Some cities like Tokyo and Sao Paulo have domestic and international demand split and so preventing mulitple bases within the same area would not be beneficial here.
Once this - http://www.airwaysim.com/forum/index.php/topic,3260.0.html - is in place, it should prevent some of the scenarios you have mentioned :)
Samo:
BA's bases are both Heathrow and Gatwick...
sami:
There won't be made-up regulations on the allowed base airports, so this won't be implemented.
(yesyes, I know the "top 20" thing is very made-up, but that will be eventually removed..) :P
elvis141:
Good Sami that this will be stoll allowed. It is a fact that this is common in many places around the world th an airline is based out of the airports...
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