Large Decrease in Pax

[Starfury483]

So im curious about something. I recently noticed a 16.7% decrease in Business Class seats sold, and a 3.1% decrease in Economy. I did not make any changes that would trigger this. Any ideas?

[swiftus27]

Competition?  Price reset? 
Too many factors to list

[LemonButt]

One of your competitors may have changed their pricing, you may have had an aircraft go into a C-check, or a whole myriad of other things could have happened.  Looking at your airline, I'm guessing it was just annual C-check maintenance on the first few aircraft you acquired.

[Starfury483]

No C- Checks, or D- Decks due for another few months. Is there a way to see the pricing of another airline?

[LemonButt]

Nope...but if your airline took a big hit it was likely against a competitor on a dense route from another airport or one of your local competitors that dropped price on all routes.  Also, your competitors could have had maintenance going on and you had artificially high load factors.  When their aircraft came back in service, your load factors went back down to where they were previously.

[exchlbg]

There is also decrease and rise of overall economy worked into game formula. Could have been this, too.

[alexgv1]

9/11?

[Starfury483]

Not 9/11, since game time is in 2009. Now if it was an economic downturn, well unless its random then the simulation was programed wrong. The economic downtown for the North American Challenge should have been from the start of the game until at least the summer of 2009.

[exchlbg]

Unlike big events like 9-11 economy is at random like fuel prices. Makes game more challenging, instead of always running alike.

[schro]

coming in and out of b check weeks can mess with the week over week stats that you are probably describing. Basically, your loads go up on average during b check weeks due to less competition then back down on the following week