Impact of additional flights on route profitability

General discussion
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Suppose I have a route on my own metal that is very profitable. Two questions:

  1. How would the profitability be impacted by adding another flight with one of my own planes on the route (assuming total supply is still less than demand)?

  2. Now suppose I added a regular handling contract on the same route. Would the profit of my own flight be impacted? Or do those contracts not count towards the supply on the route?

Logically the profitability should go down in both cases, but I don’t know if this actually modeled in the game.

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From my experience, the “demand” as shown on on a destinations details page is the demand “per aircraft” you send there…or “per contract”

I have multiple flights on the same route, and see nothing to suggest otherwise.

An AI contract, or another player contract running along side your own metal won’t affect profitability.

But I’m sure some guru out there will explain it fully if I’m wrong :+1:t2:

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What your are thinking is the Airlines Manager style demand, WOA only show demand per flight, it does not matter how many aircraft you assign on the route. And also, newer aircraft has better profit than older ones.

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Thanks guys, very helpful. Also did a bit of experimenting and my experience was consistent with that.

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Yes, I have about 3 passenger contracts(With QantasLink(Embraer E190), Jetstar(Airbus A320), and Qantas(Boeing 737-800)) to Melbourne from Sydney. It is quite alright having many contracts on one route as many people already know that the Melbourne-Sydney flight route is amongst the busiest few in the world.

I probably will be sending my Boeing 757-200F to Melbourne or Perth if I can.