Connecting Pax

[Zortan]

My suggestion is to work with the timing and the routes. For example, not many pax will want a 23-hour layover, but plenty will spring for the 2-hour. Connecting pax should also pay less since airlines charge a premium for direct flights. I'm sure this will all be hard to implement, but a lot of the spamliners in AE work off of connecting pax. how connecting pax work in AE is that if you have a flight from an airport and another flight from that airport and that airport is a "hub" (5+ gates and you paid for it to be a hub) then they'll connect. They pay half-price on both flights. Spamliners just have a bunch of flights through a hub, raise the prices to well over double the original price and bam they've made money off connecting pax. Either that or they have $1 prices but that's a different story. Basically don't turn the connecting pax into what AE has, because that'll just create spammers. Basically for a hub, my advice would be to work with timing, since passengers generally choose flights based on the layover.