Hey!
Thanks for the replies!
Your other points are valid and good though (depite the fact that big aircraft can be tuned quite precisely too).
They can to a certain degree. However when I add (remove) 1 flight/week with e.g. a Fokker 27 (56 seats) the amount of daily seats increases (decreases) by 8 seats. However when I add (remove) a flight with a 737 (e.g. 136 seats) the daily seats increase (decrease) by ~19 seats.
So with smaller planes you are usually able to match the number of requested seats more closely.
(Of course you can still work with cabin layout and stuff but I think it is clear what I mean in general).
To add to your points: High frequency takes up a lot of slots, so a Cessna Caravan fleet doing 300 weekly runs will likely run into problems.
I added this to my first post (with credit) so others with the same question can easily find pro and cons, I hope that is ok.
Where did you get that part from? That equals more than 4 daily flights, which only routes between at least bigger spokes or big hubs can support. At my home airport ( ~ 10 mio pax/year) I can think of at most a handful routes getting 4 or more daily flights.
I know, that is why I said that I can't imagine it bo realistic for small routes. For big routes however this seems to happen (as discussed here (http://www.airline-e...s-on-one-route/) with reference to http://en.wikipedia....craft_movements
My point was that I end up with 25 R/T per week when I try to serve a 200 pax/day route with a small plane (e.g. F27 with 56 seats). This seems unrealistic to me, but it also feels wrong to serve a less than 250 miles trip with a 737 (although I have no information if that is unusal in the real world).
Of course there are many aircrafts available so you can probably find one that fits well for these parameters but if you try to operate only a few a/c families it is not always an option.
High flight frequency doesn't always mean high reputation. I believe maximum reputation can be achieved between 15-35 flights a week. 60 flights per week give the same amount of reputation as 5 per week.
That would make sense, I'll try to monitor this.
Greetings,
Karoue