Flight departure times - Cargo & Pax

[Kadachiman]

Penalties apply if you have your passenger planes departing at times that are close together e.g. less than 1 hour for lower pax number routes, therefore I assume that it is also true for cargo plane departure times?

However,......can you have similar departure times for 1 x pax and 1 x cargo planes without a penalty?
In theory there should be no impact as both are for a different purpose, but I am not sure if the game mechanics can differentiate.

Edit: I am also of the understanding that departure times for cargo have no negative impact if you depart at 1am instead of pax preference for after 6am....correct?

I am sure the answer is on this forum somewhere in its depths, but a search cannot find a definitive answer....or I am searching incorrectly.

[groundbum2]

cargo planes suffer no penalties, but I've heard AWS treats two departures at the exact same time as 1 plane. So say the timetable is

0900 Airline A 757-F
1000 Airline B 757-F
1005 Airline B 757-F

I'd expect A to get 33% and B 66%.

But with this

0900 Airline A 757-F
1000 Airline B 757-F
1000 Airline B 757-F

I'd expect A and B to get 50%, if the 2x1000 departures are counted as one plane. This hasn't been proven though.

For pax it's different, they need 60 minutes between them otherwise the load factor (LF) drops. If there are more than 1500pax/day the minimum interval drops to 30 minutes. It can drop to 15 minutes on mega routes, say 4000 pax/day perhaps. AWS also imposes a limit of no more than 40 flights a day on a route.

There's no interaction between pax and cargo aircraft for interval setting. Combi will be subject to passengers rules I'd suspect.

And you're right in saying cargo times don't care about departure and arrival times and number of tech stops. But cargo does care about RI, until it gets to 90 expect to lose money, a lot of money!

Simon

[Kadachiman]

Thanks, Simon for a very clear and informative response.