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[zane94s]

I have a (500+ routes) airline with 4 hubs and i'm part of a giant alliance, and I wanted to experiment with spamming on routes not served by anyone but me... so I did the basics:

 

1) All Economy seats

2) Spam IFS and IFE

3) Increased flights triple the demand

4) Increased the price over the normal pricing so I can benefit from the connecting passengers instead of the demand...

 

and I got nothing

 

What actually happened?

1) The loading capacity went down to 0%

2) The profits turned red (more than -$200,000)

3) NO Connecting passengers were on that flight (I had some connecting passengers at normal pricing, but the blue bar didn't load completely)

 

Why didn't it work?

 

 

[Airboss777]

What was your daily pax level? In my opinion, while you can start to feel the effects with just a few hundred thousand, you really need > 1m daily pax. Also only 4 hubs aint much. Try 40. Hub EVERY airport you fly to/from. I general only focus on green pax at standard capacities & prices till I get to this sort of level. Then I go nuts. It takes a lot of planes & a lot of time. Good luck.

[Alpha Waffle]

The formula is simple:

 

Connecting pax per day between hubs = 0.002 * Total pax per day in+out of hubs

 

So if you have 50,000,000 passengers flying into an airport but it's not a hub, you get precisely 0 connecting passengers from that.

 

However, connecting passengers at one airport magically teleport to other airports. So 50,000,000 passengers per day out of a hub means you can get 100,000 connections out of ANY OTHER HUB, regardless of whether or not the two hubs are connected with a flight.

[zane94s]

What was your daily pax level? In my opinion, while you can start to feel the effects with just a few hundred thousand, you really need > 1m daily pax. Also only 4 hubs aint much. Try 40. Hub EVERY airport you fly to/from. I general only focus on green pax at standard capacities & prices till I get to this sort of level. Then I go nuts. It takes a lot of planes & a lot of time. Good luck.

 

The formula is simple:

 

Connecting pax per day between hubs = 0.002 * Total pax per day in+out of hubs

 

So if you have 50,000,000 passengers flying into an airport but it's not a hub, you get precisely 0 connecting passengers from that.

 

However, connecting passengers at one airport magically teleport to other airports. So 50,000,000 passengers per day out of a hub means you can get 100,000 connections out of ANY OTHER HUB, regardless of whether or not the two hubs are connected with a flight.

 

My daily passenger count is 370,000. I'm also operating the airline from Syria.. I cannot establish more hubs as you would in China or USA, I guess that's the problem then.

Thanks for your answers

[Airboss777]

Good luck dude.

 

[KMRobinson318]

Good luck dude.

 

 

I, on the other hand, hope all spamliners (defined as those using unrealistic seating layouts and/or unrealistically scam IFE) crash and burn.

[Airboss777]

Well gee, I'm so glad I stopped to try & help you.