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I know this has likely already been requested maybe even by me, but I wanted to put it out there again.

 

I would like it if you could add seasonal flights. When adding a route you can check year round or seasonal, and if you check seasonal a pop up will show so you can choose the start and end dates. You would also be able to change a route to seasonal in the routes page or even boost to year round provided you have available aircraft to fly the route. 

 

I also think it would be nice to choose the days if you fly less than one daily. Lets say you fly a route 4 days a week, you would be able to choose the days or at least set it at every other day, or every two days, or weekends only, or just one specific day. Idk how feasible this would be since the months only have 24 days, but I though I'd put it out there.



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Perhaps this will be implemented in the future when the capability is there. AE currently doesn't have the ability to calculate seasonal demand, so instead, I believe it shows it as being year-round which removes the whole point of seasonal flights. If seasonality is implemented in the future, then I could see a case for it.

 

Choosing days also requires a feature that either simply doesn't exist, or would require a change to implement. In the case of AE, this is scheduling, which currently is basically hours/week. Demand doesn't really care what day they're flying there and back (it's basically consistent every day), so all that's really necessary is a basic flights/week thing. Adding specific dates in which a flight would be would require a major change — instead of just figuring out how many hours a flight takes up and using basic subtraction, you'd also need to figure out what days a flight is flying, schedule each individual aircraft day by day or hour by hour ensuring that flights can operate non-consistent everyday schedules, and do the same thing for fleets of hundreds of aircraft, dramatically increasing calculations. Some sims like Airlinesim have managed to do this, but considering they're a paid program which operates in real-time, they can allow for this. I have no idea how we'd implement this into AE. 


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I love this Idea because you would not operate flights to a ski town (Hayden) in the summer. 






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