so DoTM 1983 and 767-200ERs have just been released, I'm in Turkey. Config is 176/18/4 all standard.
My 5000nm flights to the East Coast and Mid-America are huge LFs and printing cash. But my LAX flights (180/day pax) are hovering about 50% LF and 25% in F. RI is 100, CI 41.
I'm wondering why my LF is so low to LAX, which is my further route . Could it be the seats?I could change to better seats but total seats would drop dramatically and I'm at 90%LF on the other routes, using 7 day scheduling.
Ideas welcome!
Simon
You don't use tech stops and there is no competition?
Quote from: Andre090904 on January 18, 2020, 04:52:33 PM
You don't use tech stops and there is no competition?
no tech stops, empty route..
S
Departure/Arrival times are good?
2240/0320
0535/0535
I had prices set at default+4%. Dropped by 5% and LFs went down(!) so upped them back to defult+4% and now back to the numbers quoted in the original post.
I suppose the underlying question is whether there's some kind of flying time/range when long-haul passengers really won't put up with standard seats?
S
Maybe you can try a spare bird equipped with premium seats on that route just to see the difference. Temporally removing the route from the 7 days set.
I'd say the landing at 03:20 probably has at least something to do with it
yup, the arrival time is very very bad (I'd be fussy too!) ;)
Basically:
Outbound arrival time: Very bad
Inbound dep & Arrival time both not good
How I see it: 06:00-22:55 all good
05:00-06:00 / 23:00-23:55 bad but ok if only one side is affected (arrival or departure).
I stopped scheduling outside of these timings as it's not worth it. On ocaison you need to go a bit beyond but it's better to look
for another destination that fits the open space better.
Mike
41 CI is probably also not helping, especially for the C/F. Are the money printing routes the same size as the LAX one ~180/day, or are they a little bigger?
thanks for all the ideas everyone. I rejiggled the 7 day route so no 3am arrivals and the LAX is now up to 75% LF, still with standard seats and pricing default +4%.
Weird how the early arrival of the outbound also knocked the LF of the return flight!
Factors are now
Y: 76.0% C: 67.8% F: 45.0%
Y: 79.4% C: 50.0% F: 40.0%
much better - and revenue is 71K per flight up from 34K - thank you! Simon