Just a few questions????

[kyearmour]

1) Does LF's increase and decrease CI? If you have low LF's does that affect your CI?

Because i have LOW LF's on certain routes, but that is because i am flying an aircraft with 120 Economy seats to a destination with only an average of 90 passengers per day but i am actually picking up between 81 and 90 passengers per day but my LF's are around 70%.
So will this LOW LF affect my CI?

2) Does the average daily passengers increase and decrease over time and does it have an effect due to certain circumstances like September 11th 2001?

I have not seen any increase in daily passenger demand over the last 3 years game time play, in real life daily passenger demand over the years increase, is this incorporated into Airwaysim?

3) If i have my main Hub and 2 additional Bases, with the same type of aircraft in my Hub and 2 bases does this cost more on fleet commonality at bases?

I hope someone can answer these questions for me, Maybe Sami?

Thank you
KYE

[Sanabas]

1: No. Your CI will have an effect on your LF. But flying empty planes won't hurt your CI. Excessive delays will hurt your CI a little, but other than that, it's just about marketing spend.

2: It increases steadily, more or less. There will be a drop for Sept 11 2001, there are occasional other drops, like demand to Baghdad in the early 90s, or changes in demand when airports open/close, or countries merge/breakup, particularly Germany forming and the USSR splitting into various countries. There's most likely been some increase in the 3 years you've been playing, but you haven't noticed due to the error margin in the route planning graphs. To pick a route at random(ish), Istanbul-JFK currently has ~490 pax/day in Nov 98 in MT, and has ~190 pax/day in Dec 69 in JA

3: Yes, 10% extra for that fleet type if it is at 2 bases.

[kyearmour]

If I want to order 20 new planes and there is a backlog of 15 and the production rate is 15 per month why can i not receive more than 2 planes per month?

[Sanabas]

Because then anybody else who wanted the same plane would be forced to wait until after you got all of yours. If that was the case, it would mean that whoever ordered first on the really popular lines would get a huge advantage, and once the world is up & running, getting to order first just comes down to who is online when the plane is launched.

[kyearmour]

is it better to have lots of flights say 10 throughout the day with smaller planes or better to have 3 flights a day with bigger planes?
Also if you are the only airline covering a route does it matter too much on the time that it takes, does that affect LF's?

[Sigma]

is it better to have lots of flights say 10 throughout the day with smaller planes or better to have 3 flights a day with bigger planes?
Also if you are the only airline covering a route does it matter too much on the time that it takes, does that affect LF's?

"Better" for what?

It's "better" for your profits to have fewer, larger planes flying on a route.

It's "better" to compete against someone else with more flights of smaller planes.  Customers like frequency.  But with no other options they'll cram onboard a 747 once a day if they have to.

And if you're the only airline on the route, you can do pretty much whatever you want (except charge too much or fly at 2am) and the passengers will fly on you.