Oversupply warnings

Started by valmarus, October 20, 2017, 05:17:28 PM

valmarus

Not too long ago when I branched into a new airport I had to close down some of the new routes due to oversupply warnings from the game. Nobody was running these routes and all other routes were overly competitive so I thought running these smaller routes at even partial capacity was better than having my aircraft sitting on the tarmac being unused even if it was only a couple of extra hundred profit.

At the moment I'm keeping an eye out for replacements future replacements for my heron 2s on small domestic routes (mostly looking for something just as efficient fuel wise with a little more speed) but the below 20 seat aircraft don't seem to have nearly anywhere near the heron's range
to cover the distances required. I was wondering at what point the oversupply warning triggers so I can evaluate just how big an aircraft I can put on the routes without triggering the oversupply warnings.

Tha_Ape

Triggers when you're flying twice the supply, if I'm not wrong.
The Bandeirante would probably be the closest plane you can get, as the Heron has quite a long range for its era/size.

AlanH

^ Like he said, twice demand triggers it.

You can block the seats though to avoid the warning. So if demand is 7 then supplying over 14 would trigger the warning, but if you block the seats to something under that, say 10, then you can fly the route with out the oversupply warning.

valmarus

Okay. Thanks for the information.

valmarus

Recently I swapped out some aircraft and got over supply warnings on a couple of routes with the new aircraft, which was fine, I was expecting that. However, after correcting the issue by applying passenger limits the warnings don't seem to be getting removed from the notification view even after coming back to it a few hours later. At first I thought it might because the aircraft has to fly the route again but at least some of the routes should have been flown by now. Am I missing something?

(For those of you who will look at my airline I'm aware of commonality problems with my fleet. I'm in the process of replacing certain aircraft types but due to delivery timings this has lead to too many aircraft types in the short term.)

Tha_Ape

It could take a few hours for the warning to disappear, yes.
The 1st times I was a little worried too. Don't.

The only other possibility is if you're using a custom planning with different times each day (or at least for some of the days): if the return leg usually departs at 2350 and one departs at 0005, then you'd have 2 departures the same day instead of only one. And none for another day, as a consequence.