Different A/C types on the route and vice versa

[Kastor]

I took a time to search for such a topic page by page, but didn't find, so decided to start this one.

Lets say I see the pax demand graph for a particular airport. and it goes like this: Monday - 300pax, Tuesday - 350 pax, Wednsday - 280 pax, Thursday 420 pax, Friday - 360 pax, Saturday - 325 pax, Sunday  - 430 pax.

If I want to creat a 7 days a week route, I should use two capacities of aircraft, for example if I want to serve a route in two daily waves, I should use 200 seater twice a week and 150 seater on other days, to achieve a good LF. Is it possible ? How can this be handled in the game, by creating separate flight # ?

In the guide there is recommended to have a 7 days a week service, cuz' otherwise your service is considered poor and will not attract pax.
And what if I have a 7 day service to that airport, but with two flights - 4,7 flight# XX001 with 200 seater and 1,2,3,5,6 flight# XX002 with 150 seater, how will my service be considered - two poor services or a good service based on everyday presense of my a/c in that airport ?

And another question by the way, but related. If I want to use that 200 seater only twice a week on that route, and send it to another route for other days, can this be done ? Can one particular aircraft serve different routes on different days in a week ?

[Sami]

Naturally if you have a route that has flt001 3x week and flt002 4x week then the TOTAL frequency is 7x week. (Like it should be.)

But usually it doesn't make a real benefit of using two aircraft models on a route as the weekly (per day) variation isn't that big (unless there is then another reason for that, like due to scheduling of other routes). And also the user interface in such case isn't the best as you'd have to create two different routes - as each route is assigned to single aircraft type (eg. A318/319/320/321) and in scheduling to single aircraft in your fleet (eg. 'N123AA, A320'). So to fly it with A319 on monday, and A320 on tuesday, you'd need to make two separate routes on route management and then assign them to the individual aircraft. ...uff, hard to explain but you'll get hang of it easily.

(of course in real life the routes are not tied to individual aircraft but for the sake of the scheduling model it was the only reasonable way as it's needed to calculate that the routes do not overlap etc)

[Kastor]

Thank you for a lightning fast answer Sami.
That is good that I can assign 2 flights on one route with different A/C types and the service is considered as a sum of both.
But do I understand correctly - if I have a one particular A320 with reg SP-LGA, it will only go on only one flight XX001 ?
If yes, is it gonna be changed later on ?

[Sami]

Sorry, didn't understand what you meant there?

[Kastor]

Sorry, maybe thats my english and I couldn't express it clearly.

I mean, when my aircraft SP-LGA serves flight XX001 on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, can it go to flight XX002 on the other days ?

[Sami]

Of course, you are making a "minute by minute / hour by hour" schedule of each aircraft for every day of the week.

Here's an image from the manual of the schedule view. The blue bars are flights, the white is idle time which should be filled with other flights.

[Kastor]

Thats cooooll  I am at home, thank you very much Sami for adressing my issue.