Airport Populations and PSO flights
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 1:06 am
I am wondering how the new airport population feature might affect a particular method of operation that is possibly not very common.
The airline that our VA emulates flies some routes that are "Public Service Operations" (PSO) where the airline has a contract with the government to operate what amounts to frequent daily "bus routes" via some remote municipal airports. In the real world this means that passengers at one airport will stay on the aircraft for several legs of a route. In FSAirlines each leg is a separate flight of course so each time an aircraft flies a leg via a municipal airport all the passengers on the flight are deducted from that airport's population and there can be five flights a day through some of these municipal airports. So far we have not experienced much of a problem but if the VA becomes more active then there might be situations when we have to complete a flight with no pax and so take a loss.
Is it possible that we can raise the municipal population or is there another suggestion that comes to mind?
The airline that our VA emulates flies some routes that are "Public Service Operations" (PSO) where the airline has a contract with the government to operate what amounts to frequent daily "bus routes" via some remote municipal airports. In the real world this means that passengers at one airport will stay on the aircraft for several legs of a route. In FSAirlines each leg is a separate flight of course so each time an aircraft flies a leg via a municipal airport all the passengers on the flight are deducted from that airport's population and there can be five flights a day through some of these municipal airports. So far we have not experienced much of a problem but if the VA becomes more active then there might be situations when we have to complete a flight with no pax and so take a loss.
Is it possible that we can raise the municipal population or is there another suggestion that comes to mind?