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[AirBuggy]

Something is fishy with the way hubs are working in R7.

 

A certain airline has set up multiple hubs at regional airports, and operates in excess of 5,000 seats on routes with no demand. I get that opening hubs can increase load factors from connecting passengers, but how can hubs create such high demand when there initially exists none?

 

If you look at a regional airport like Dijon, it somehow has more annual passenger traffic than Amsterdam Schiphol?

 

 

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[dоkаteо]

A little something called spamlining

[Thatflyerguy]

its a strat that certain people use, i personally hate it, but it can be quite profitable if done right, provided you are fine with unrealistic gameplay. called spamlining

[Maple_MK]

This is called spamlining. Players have been using it for years, and it allows them to easily reach the top of leaderboards with ease.

 

There has always been outrage over the use of spamlining, but at this point, it's not going to go away any time soon given that the game is no longer really updated.

 

I suggest you simply accept the existence of spamlining and play the game for your own enjoyment as best you can.

[Thatflyerguy]

 

 the game is no longer really updated.

idk they had the demand update. there arent the huge updates anymore but little ones still going out

[767holic]

Something is fishy with the way hubs are working in R7.

 

A certain airline has set up multiple hubs at regional airports, and operates in excess of 5,000 seats on routes with no demand. I get that opening hubs can increase load factors from connecting passengers, but how can hubs create such high demand when there initially exists none?

 

If you look at a regional airport like Dijon, it somehow has more annual passenger traffic than Amsterdam Schiphol?

 

I have seen a lot of these things in the previous round of Rdelta. You can easily beat the really over spamming by just adding reasonable frequency on that route + reduce price.

[RubberDuckGaming]

Ah yes, the spamlining. This occurs in most worlds but certainly has the highest frequency in the realistic ones, especially the “no airline per player limit” worlds.

the game is no longer really updated.

We had a medium-sized update each in 2020 and 2021, along with dozens of minor data updates over the past couple years.

[MrTrash]

Easy to kill the Spamlining… just gotta take the real demand from them

[Thatflyerguy]

Easy to kill the Spamlining… just gotta take the real demand from them

there is no real demand

[Jarkii]

there is no real demand

Hub and spoke. you have to fill demand on the routes directly from that airport that the spamliner is using to fill one route with conections. this player is probably indirectly serving hundreds of routes to that airport.