[-] Seasonal Demand
Shamwari:
I've read that the amount of flights on a destination and the time of these flights have an impact on demand.
So for example, one flight per week on a random day at 13:00 from London to Brussels won't create a lot of demand.
But two flights daily seven days a week, one in the early morning and one in the evening should create relatively a lot of demand.
If I assume that is true what about Seasonal Demand?
That is high demand during the summer, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, and so on and so forth.
Is seasonal demand a possibility?
Seattle:
I think a winter, fall, spring, summer demand should be created, but It would be hard. (don't forget all the holidays in the Middle East)
sami:
This would need to be created for sake of realism, but it may be a bit hard to think of realistic ways to model this. Or then just pre-program the info there manually..
sami:
About seasonal demands.. I am feeling that this will be too complicated to manage to players since they would have to alter their schedules every 4-6 game months or so.
An example from a book...
passengers from London to Palma in February: 2000
passengers from London to Palma in August: 111 000
passengers from London to NYC in February: 281 000
passengers from London to NYC in August: 423 000
etc. Palma being a popular holiday-only destination, nobody goes there off-season. While in NYC it has also a steady business (and gateway) travel component during off-season.
But making this work here, while keeping it playable is probably not possible (if the 30-40 min game days are kept...)
alexgv1:
Many UK charters do the Sun spots (e.g. Mediterranean) over Summer and the Ski spots (e.g. Alpes) over Winter, reducing their fleet size and utilisation in Winter by either scheduling heavy maintenance for then or leasing out. I think having seasonal schedules will be too hard for the player even if it is simply Summer and Winter schedule. Besides the business model here isn't really the charter and holiday company one, the portfolio is mainly the big boy airlines where I guess their demand is less seasonal (although LON-JFK being that seasonal was a surprise to me). At the least with this new city based demand, perhaps those marked as a seasonal destination will have normal demands, but get a passenger boost in the given quarter, and if any airline oversupplies then those seats get filled to a certain demand or if not then there are more pax to fill the competitors planes and better LFs (most likely the second scenario).
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