Spacing between flights

[Riger]

Hi there..

Can anyone give me a definitive indication of the minimum (time) spacing between flights on the same route without incurring a pax penalty?

I seem to recall a thread where this was discussed and the value seemed to vary depending on the number of pax on the route..

Any pointers please?

Regards

Richard

[swiftus27]

ooops, I am an idiot and misunderstood what the OP was asking.

There is no science, yet.....   And I think that Sami can tweak it at his discretion.

[alexgv1]

For most flights of average demand leaving 60 minutes is your safe bet. However, the time goes down as the demand goes up. Spacing can be 5 minutes on routes of 10,000 pax. Can't remember the exact figures for the values in between because don't have the thread myself either.

[Sami]

Browse the 1.3 changelog thread from announcements where this is described. But 60 minutes works always..

[Riger]

Quote from the 1.3 changelog thread from announcements where this is described ...

* Added a new method for calculating / reducing the effect of flight that depart at the same time:

   - If you have several flights to the same destination (ie. same route-pair) departing at the very same time, or very near the same time, they are counted almost like a single flight.

   - The "minimum departure interval" depends on how large the passenger demand of the route is. But rule of thumb is that on lower-demand sectors (less than ~400pax/day) the route departure times should be always at least 60 minutes apart. If the route is more busy the allowed interval drops linearily all the way to 5 minutes. On a 1000 pax/day route you can have the flights depart approx every 35 minutes, and on 4000pax/day route the min. interval is 15 mins between two flights. The interval is calculated so that players can keep decent frequencies during daylight hours.

   - If the flights are too close to each others they are treated basically as a single flight (but with the total amount of seats available of course), so this leads to lower sales for those flights that overlap or nearly overlap on dep. times.

   - But from now on, never make two flights depart to the same destination at the exactly same time.

Regards

Richard