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First of all, competition increases the available passengers (I do not know why, but two airlines with the standard price can gather more passngers than a single one). Secondly, I'll assume that you reduced your prices significantly. The demand is tied to the ticket price, so a lowered price will enable more passengers to fly. The other way round you can charge a higher price when offering fewer seats. Thirdly, while connection passengers pay less, they still pay something and a big hub can give you a lot of connecting pax, enabling a much higher number of filled seats. Lastly, large airlines are only little affected by much smaller ones on such big routes. I once ran an airline using only A330 within the USA. Even though I regularely exceeded demand, my extra capacity hurt the smaller airlines on that route much more than the huge one flying 49x a week - both absolute and relative.

So why doesn't the demand graph change along with the passenger numbers? i mean if I'm flying 21 flights a week and filling demand why wouldn't it show me more passengers so i can add flights. This alos goes along with my frequency question. My bar is at yellow even flying 21 times a week and filling demand. Why isn't my frequency or any frequency green when you can fulfill the demand?

First of all, competition increases the available passengers (I do not know why, but two airlines with the standard price can gather more passngers than a single one). Secondly, I'll assume that you reduced your prices significantly. The demand is tied to the ticket price, so a lowered price will enable more passengers to fly. The other way round you can charge a higher price when offering fewer seats. Thirdly, while connection passengers pay less, they still pay something and a big hub can give you a lot of connecting pax, enabling a much higher number of filled seats. Lastly, large airlines are only little affected by much smaller ones on such big routes. I once ran an airline using only A330 within the USA. Even though I regularely exceeded demand, my extra capacity hurt the smaller airlines on that route much more than the huge one flying 49x a week - both absolute and relative.

So why doesn't the demand graph change along with the passenger numbers? i mean if I'm flying 21 flights a week and filling demand why wouldn't it show me more passengers so i can add flights. This alos goes along with my frequency question. My bar is at yellow even flying 21 times a week and filling demand. Why isn't my frequency or any frequency green when you can fulfill the demand?

BTW does having a "great" IFE system on planes really affect route reputation? And it would make more sense if i could see the money I'am making,or loosing through advertisement and other areas. certain IFE configurations get 2 star ratings and others get one star but do they add to overall customer happiness. I mean in order for (in my experience) for someone to get green in the IFS bar you need to "loose money" whereas the IFE could somehow make it even. I give items and food away free and passengers pay for my IFE services so not a total loss...So back to the previous question...does IFE impact flight ratings? 

I agree with one and the other. I mean when I configure my planes I sometimes spend 2-3 hundred thousand dollars so that the passengers have "luxuries". Also another question i have and don't wan't to open another thread is ..If I have a combined passenger rate of 134. That's supposed to be 134 a day right? So a 150 passenger plane that does 7 flights a week, why is it that my "frequency" is till in the red or yellow if I'm fulfilling the pax load...only when there are competitors and I'm doing 22 flights a week so I notice the bar getting green...and how do I still manage to get 100% on all classes/load when now I'm doing 22 flights a week...?? 

I'm kinda getting it...but wouldn't I have to buy say a few 757's because of the infrequency they're willing to fly the route? I mean from JFK to miami my 717 gets 25 trips or slots which equal 13 flights a day with 134 pax.equaling 1742...now the demand is for about 15 F 60 C and 1400 Y..I'd have to buy a few 717's to cover that at 134 passengers but how many trips can a 757 do...with turnaround?  Is turnaround what calculates how many trips a plane can do per day besides range? I mean a 737-900(which is only one avail in my game at the moment) does 189 seats with a 300 mile range but a 40 minute turnaround..difference of about 50 pax between the two planes.  . Now considering I could do say 8 flights maybe a bit more with a 757 wouldn't I be spending more buying a few 757's?  and mxax .or any of the guys.....is there a formula I can use to mathematically know how to save money, or how much I will spend per pax where i calculate it before buying a plane....or somehow/way to help me in choosing the right plane for the right job? i mean at 1400 pax a day i could just get two or 3 747's.....lol....how does one  figure out that a 737-900ER (ER is for extended range right?) is better for short flights? or for the job?? MXAX I think you might've miswrote up top when you said " the 717 will use about 35 % more fuel per passenger than the 717. (on that note: there's a lot that's better than the 717 in terms of fuel burn.)' did you mean the 757??