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Passenger Capacity at Airports - Propilot23k - 25-11-2005
Hi guys,
Maurino Brown, new here to the FSP forums. I was wondering do you guys think it will be better to have your passenger load determined
by how popular the airport is in real life. Kind of like Airline Empires. Right I now i beleive it is determined off of your percentage as well
as how many flights you have out of that airfield. I dont think that is a good way to come up with the load factor of passengers. What do
you guys think?
Re: Passenger Capacity at Airports - DanSteph - 25-11-2005
Often posted question
This would render 96% worldwide airport unintteressant as you would get only a few passengers there.
On 10'000 airport only a few are very popular, still Fs2004 pilot love to start from many places not
only the major airport.
Company reputation, tickets price, number of flights made from one airport are totally relevant
as factor or would you personnaly buy a ticket from a company that have a bad safety record
(low reputation) high ticket price and that make his first flight on the airport near your town ?
Dan
Post Edited ( 11-25-05 02:32 )
Re: Passenger Capacity at Airports - SWAFO - 25-11-2005
My local airport (KABQ-Albuquerque International Sunport) isn't the most immensely popular airport in the world (in fact, it's
quite "unpopular"), yet nearly every Southwest Airlines flight departing ABQ has over 100 PAX on it. To the most popular destinations,
these aircraft are usually at or near 100% capacity.
Keep in mind that not only large, frequently used/heard about airports are the most busy/attract the most customers. Smaller airports
have customer bases too, however if the demand isn't as high as other airports, the flight schedule will reflect that. For example: More
people might want to go to Chicago from Las Vegas as opposed to Albuquerque. So, naturally Las Vegas would have more flights than
Albuquerque to Chicago. Even though there might be less average PAX on the Las Vegas-Chicago planes (because more flights are
offered), this doesn't mean that there is less of a demand. This should make sense... I'm just stating the obvious.
If 137 people on average want to go from ABQ-MDW a day (this is one Southwest 737-3/700 full of PAX), then it only makes sense that the
airline will schedule one flight. This flight will probably average the "near full" range of PAX. On the other hand, if 1,370 (10 plane fulls) of
PAX want to go from LAS-MDW a day, it only makes sense that there would be 10 flights from LAS-MDW a day, and all these would be at
or near full.
Make sense? I think I attempted to "over-clarify" a very simple topic. Supply and demand my friend, supply and demand! Even though
small airports might not harbor as much traffic, keep in mind that there is still a demand to be met, and usually a supply to meet that
demand (ESPECIALLY in the aviation industry!)
Re: Passenger Capacity at Airports - jboweruk - 25-11-2005
Besides which, you wouldn't want to fly small SEP's out of places like Lake Wenatchee or Darrington Muni. if you only got 1 passenger
would you? You'd fly from Seattle Tacoma instead, I think it's better this way overall, plus I agree totally with what Brad said, supply and
demand, airports have all sprung up because there is a demand for them, here in London we are served directly by 3 International
airports, City, Gatwick and Heathrow, and still they need to expand some of our airports because predicted demand is outstripping what
the airport can cope wih, sure Heathrow is the biggest, but you will still fill a plane from Gatwick or City because demand is there.
Re: Passenger Capacity at Airports - Propilot23k - 26-11-2005
I see what you guys are saying. It makes sense. I know theres a way to incorporate all this. What if you set the percentages of flights
coming out of the smaller airports at like 65-70 while JFK and BOS would be more like 90-95. Then also tally in the airlines popularity
percentage and flights out of that airfield. Wouldnt that give more realistic numbers?
Re: Passenger Capacity at Airports - pagir - 26-11-2005
But as Dan said, it won't be that good because you will not fly from smaller airport and only the big ones...
I personnally prefet the actual calculation, based on how many times you flown from the departure airport, global reputation and price.
Pagir
Re: Passenger Capacity at Airports - Propilot23k - 26-11-2005
ok thanks for the replys guys.
Re: Passenger Capacity at Airports - Airliner - 29-11-2005
Post Edited ( 12-13-05 05:39 )