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