Load factor

[TrishulNaga]

Suddenly the load factor for most of the flights scheduled on 21-03-2019 has taken a hit. Later night departures has plummeted. Why is this happening?

[TrishulNaga]

The load factor for flights scheduled on 21st March has taken a hit. The late night departures has gone into red. Why is this happening?

[Anzatax]

I suspect it is because of the recent marketing update. Your reputation has probably taken a 50% drop, so loadfactor is going down. I think is a slight unrealistic side effect of the new marketing feature , but since Unk is so kind as to make marketing free for now, just put all your money into the marketing campaigns for now

[Anzatax]

The recent marketing feature update maybe? I did more of an explanation of what I think happened on another thread.

[Unknown98]

Not sure why load factors would change.

Marketing is not yet connected to load factors in any way so that's not it.

[sfk]

Maybe marketing affects reputation, and reps affect load factors? IDK XD

[Unknown98]

Marketing (at this time) only affects airline image, which does not affect loadfactors.

[TrishulNaga]

In overall the load factors for most of the routes(excluding departures between 1am-4am) have come down by 2-5%. And wee hour departures is the one which took big hit. Especially Y & Y+ is zero for many of them. 

This happened exactly after the airline image went down by 50% and when the route scheduler ran the next morning. 

So i suspect something related to this is dragging down. I am not sure what other players are experiencing.

[Spyrosv]

Some flights went from 98% full to lower than 50%.

[Unknown98]

Hah, so I double checked the code just to be sure and there was a bug where marketing was affecting the class reputations. I've fixed that now so tomorrow things should be back to normal.

You can double check by cancelling flights and re-scheduling them (if the route is not yet in progress) and check if the loadfactors are normal again.


This is what i get for programming late at night