It's not that simple. Flight arrival and departure times do affect demand, but that depends on traveler preferences. Low-cost airlines and the like arrive late at night or very early in the morning to take advantage of cheaper gate prices, passing on the low prices to their customers, and therefore generating a lot of demand. Many transatlantic flights going east take off late at night or in some cases arrive very early. I know that for some reason 80% of all flights into Domodedovo that I take (again, using Moscow as an example since I live there) arrive between midnight and 5AM. Many south-west Asian-based airlines fly into Moscow at that time due to, again, the cheaper gate prices. This is all probably too complicated to calculate for the purposes if the game, so perhaps a simplified version could be used. Arrival/departure slot prices should maybe be charged per flight rather than buying gates as CA did, and the price should vary depending on the time?
EDIT: This is all probably going a bit off topic, so maybe a separate thread is necessary? What do you think, Unk?
EDIT: This is all probably going a bit off topic, so maybe a separate thread is necessary? What do you think, Unk?