Route Demand

[Dave4468]

A quick question about route demand.

I'm based in Cardiff and if I want to open a trans-Atlantic route to somewhere like JFK the route demand is something like 50 a day. If I open said route will the route demand go up as surely pax who would travel from the surrounding areas to Heathrow or similar for such a flight would now go to Cardiff and the demand would shoot up.

Does this happen or is it beyond the game?

Cheers

[Kontio]

It is beyond the game at this point. The demand is pretty much what you see, if it says 50 that is about what you can get. The demand figures are from one airport to another, even if there are multiple airports serving the same metropolitan area (e.g. London or New York) the demand figures are completely separate and flights to/from Heathrow have no effect on flight to Gatwick for example.

[d2031k]

It may happen one day...

https://www.airwaysim.com/forum/index.php/topic,3260.0.html

[fauzi]

What if I open a route A-B that has 150 pax/day. Would it increase over time, maybe 180pax/day after a year?

[Sigma]

It does increase (or decrease as economic circumstances may dictate) over time, but nothing to that extreme (except after 9/11 briefly). 

Generally speaking the increases over time are fairly small, well under 5% per year.