I understand that passengers wouldn't want to fly on smaller aircraft over much larger distances, but the demand on many of the routes available between Jamaica (where I am based) and the other Caribbean, Central, and South American airports is very small. If my aircraft can fly the distance and there is no competition on the route then why should there be a penalty? Perhaps an island hopping airline out of Jamaica is just not viable. At any rate I think I will schedule the route and see how low the pax numbers are compared to shorter routes with identical demand.
If pax preference for larger airplanes on larger routes plays a factor I wonder if pax would choose a jet aircraft over a prop? Does flight time or jet aircraft factor into competition on a route? I guess I am just rambling, but maybe you guys know. Thanks!
I forgot that earlier I was thinking that I would have to schedule these flights with tech stops to make it work. Am I thinking right?
Hmmm. Get the same message with a technical stop so I guess it isn't a range related thing. Perhaps I am flying a small plane into too large of an airport? The demand doesn't really call for anything much bigger so I don't know.
They wont boycott flying on the smaller plane its just that they would prefer not too
You will be OK (but wont attract all of the customers) until competition comes along with a plane that they prefer
You may find that routes you already have this type of plane on are Domestic routes whereas now you are scheduling International routes, hence the warning.
It was a change brought in to limit the number of people that were flying 737's across the pond against wide bodied aircraft effectively killing off the wide bodies by using frequency on narrow bodies....unfortunately the game engine applies this across nearly all international demand.
Do a search on 'frequency raping' to get the history behind the reason this change was made.
Thank you for pointing me in the right direction ;D
I run a carribean airline out of st maarten in GW4 with metros and emb120s and get those messages on most routes over 300 or maybe 400 miles but i still have great load factors even on routes with competition. Its definitely doable but im sure there are penalties in there somewhere. But i fly 19 seat aircraft 3x daily on a route with a demand around 60 per day and fill all 3 flights.