Flying on a route where the number of the business and first class passengers is very high, I've started a flight which flies 4 times a week and the aircraft has only C and F class seats. With 100 RI I get 0.0% PLF both in and outbound flight. What can be the problem with this flight?
Thanks for your answers,
APTamas
Magic carpet - forbidden by the game (to avoid exploit).
I believe you need to have at least 50% of Y seats.
with 100% RI & CI, it might still work, but I'm not even sure. What is sure is that you the RI & CI requirement fir C are far higher than for Y, and it's even far higher for F. What is your CI/RI on this route?
The RI is 100 on this route. The CI could be better, but it's raising now ;D
I have 42 flights weekly on this route with aircraft with normal configuration (250,30,8) and on those routes the C and the F are 100% so the problem is not with the passengers... :-\
Pre premium services require a very high company image in order to work.
So with 70 CI will it work or I need at least 100?
Best balance is always to follow the YCF proportion on the route you intend to fly. If a certain route has 60% Y, 30% C and 10% F, the seat config of your aircraft should follow a proportion close to that. If the config results in too few seats, use a larger aircraft for that. You won't fail using this strategy!
Thanks a lot!
Quote from: Tha_Ape on September 20, 2018, 09:45:44 AM
Magic carpet - forbidden by the game (to avoid exploit).
I believe you need to have at least 50% of Y seats.
Magic carpets still work. You just have to know how to do it. You need to have very high CI and RI in order to attract enough F and C demand to fill the planes. Which means that magic carpets won't work as a startup strategy (CI and RI too low), but they can be very profitable after the first year or so of the game. Current examples attached.
Quote from: wilian.souza2 on September 20, 2018, 11:41:10 AM
Best balance is always to follow the YCF proportion on the route you intend to fly. If a certain route has 60% Y, 30% C and 10% F, the seat config of your aircraft should follow a proportion close to that. If the config results in too few seats, use a larger aircraft for that. You won't fail using this strategy!
It's true that that is an easy rule of thumb and that you won't fail when doing that.
However, if you feel that your competitors are underserving F and C demand, you can further increase your profit margins by increasing your F and C cabins (and even increasing pricing in those cabins) as shown in my example above. This is a more advanced technique, and you
can fail, but it done correctly it will increase your profit margins. For example, if you can dedicate an aircraft or a series of aircraft to a super-premium route like JFK-LHR, you can equip it with more premium seats, while your competitors will need a more "balanced" seating config if they are flying JFK-LHR on the same plane as they fly less-premium routes such as JFK-MAN, JFK-HNL, etc.
Screenshot below shows what I am currently serving on JFK-LHR. Since I can only carry so many pax on my planes, my preference is to carry as many of the higher-paying F and C pax as possible, even if it means carrying fewer Y pax. F and C fares are also marked up 20~50% from the default prices.
It actually really works with CI 70 and RI 100. 0 Y, 140 C, 34 F 100% LF on both classes :)
Quote from: APTamas on September 29, 2018, 07:57:38 AM
It actually really works with CI 70 and RI 100. 0 Y, 140 C, 34 F 100% LF on both classes :)
Well done. Although if a competitor comes in with RI > 70, your LFs will probably take a hit.