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I don't remember if this has been discussed yet:

1. In order to avoid bad flights we should be able to see the daily demand at each airport and of course the number of flights on route.

2. If I choose and airport as my HQ or I have a HUB on it or it is a focus city for my airline the demand should increase dramatically.
1. I agree airlines should be able to see the current total number of passengers (Wikipedia style) - but those that actually use the airport - not the theoretical limit. I also disagree that airlines should be able to see exactly what the demand is for a route (AE style) this is because no one knows how many people will fly a particular route with a low enough price. They may not currently be travelling, traveling else where or by another means of travel or not travel. You need to remember that airlines do not know exactly how many people will use a route and sometimes start routes which will not be profitable.

2. I'm not really sure why this would be the case - am I missing something.
1) I think the system should be the only one who knows the exact demand for individual routes.
2) I like the idea (@skifans like connecting flights) but I have no clue how to implement it.
(07-06-201503:47 PM)dbd Wrote: [ -> ]1) I think the system should be the only one who knows the exact demand for individual routes.
2) I like the idea (@skifans like connecting flights) but I have no clue how to implement it.

1. Totally agree with this, but I would like to see the total passenger numbers available, sort of like this:
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in order to give someone an idea about how busy an airport is. Even if it is just total passengers in the last 12 months.

2. Ahh, ok. I disagree that a "dramatic" increase would be caused. Maybe 2.5% per airline which has a hub ect. (so if two airlines have a hub then 5% increase). Frankly however I have done no research to see if this matches reality. In pseudocode i'd have as part of the load factor for aircraft - f being the rest of the formula & n being the number of airlines which have a hub ect.:
((f)/100)*(n*2.5).
If you think this way should be possible then it might also be possible adapted so that hubs have more of an effect then a focus city.
1. I agree we don´t need to see any numbers. Just something to think about sending or not sending planes to that airport. The system could have a base number and then to average the daily demand.

2. Let´s say I´m going to select a city as a Hub, focus city or HQ. The system sends a prompt to the airline to help the formula later.

Every time that a plane arrives to an airport that is the Hub, HQ or FC of an airline, the system calculates the 40% of passengers landed (Or something) to add that number to the daily demand.

If there is no flights that day or the airline disappear the demand remains the same.
I think 40% is way too much. I dug up some old UK statistics on how many people take an indirect flight, you can see the data for yourself at http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/5/Connecting_Passengers_at_UK_Airports.pdf but il past it bellow:
Airport Connecting Proportion
Heathrow 35.10%
Gatwick 13.10%
Aberdeen 9.70%
Stansted 9.10%
Luton 4.10%
Manchester 3.00%
London City 2.40%
Birmingham 2.30%
Glasgow 1.90%
Edinburgh 1.60%
Liverpool 1.40%
Inverness 1.00%
Newcastle 0.60%
East Midlands 0.50%
Leeds Bradford 0.40%
Belfast Int’l 0.20%
Prestwick 0.20%
Belfast City 0.20%
Teesside 0.20%
Bournemouth 0.10%
Doncaster 0.10%
Londonderry 0.10%
Humberside 0.00%
This is an average of 3.8% of people who use and airport are connecting passengers.
As you can see 3.8% doesn´t make justice to Heathrow and worst of all some airports could not be a good choice for an HQ. Technically an airport grows if the number of airlines servicing an airport grow as well, especially as part of a commuting plan.
Yes of course, obviously wasn't thinking straight. What I would have done was divided the above numbers by the amount of airlines based at that airport, and then averaged it. Does anyone know of a site which lists how many airports are based at those airports? Either way though I think 40% is still too much, more like 5%.
maybe you could look up a route and it tells you how much of the demand is fufilled and how much extra demand there needs to be
(07-09-201504:12 AM)americarocks Wrote: [ -> ]maybe you could look up a route and it tells you how much of the demand is fufilled and how much extra demand there needs to be

I disagree that people should be told how much extra demand there is - no airline has this information when setting up real world routes.
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