Connecting Flights?

[Crai-Crai]

I see that "Connecting Flights" is marked "Done" on the Trello roadmap, but I can't find any information on it. How do connecting flights work? Is there anything I can do to make life easier for connecting passengers?

I tried putting a Ticketing Desk near the gates so pax wouldn't have to go all the way out and back in, but I got an error message that Ticketing must always be outside the Secure area. Could that be changed to allow connecting passengers to stay inside the Secure area while catching a connecting flight?

[LVGameDev]

Connecting pax right now spawn automatically, capped at a max of 10% of your arrivals, and they tend to be/more likely when you have same-airline outbounds later that day IIRC. Their likelihood right now is largely based on satisfaction & having a "satisfactory candidate" outbound flight later that day.

They will leave the secure area if needed (ie if their next gate is in a separate 'security wing') but otherwise they generally won't leave the secure area if they don't need to; they do not need to use a Ticketing Desk, and they only need to use security if they de-secure themselves (typically to reach another wing) for some reason.

You can find individual connecting pax by bringing up the 'Pax Flows' overlay and then hitting TAB to switch between them -- on one of them the connecting flight pax will be highlighted in BLUE.

It needs more/additional depth still, for sure -- was a start, though. :)

[HelloCoinneach]

What happens with connecting passengers baggage? Does the baggage get transferred between aircraft?

[joscha999]

Yes, the baggage will be taken off the plane, moved to the assigned depot as usual and then sorted by the system to end up with the depot of the connection flight where it is picked up by the baggage car and put onto the new flight.

[Jumbo Shrimp]

There should be a lot more connecting passengers, percentage proportionately rising with number of flights.

It would also be a nice challenge for players with big airports and, perhaps several terminals.

[VincentW914]

what if the depots are not connected