Airlines form alliances to expand their reach and offer improved collective services, thereby attracting a greater passenger base. As shown in Figure 1, the Alliance Factors tab allows you to specify alliance details and associated traffic impact factors. Data entry can be done manually or via CSV import.
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Fields in the Alliance table include:
- Alliance: Name of the airline alliance.
- Airlines: Comma-separated IATA codes of member airlines.
- Local_Factor_To_Online: This factor compares the local service traffic of alliance members to a direct online service, with values such as 0.2 indicating 20% effectiveness of an interline service compared to an online service.
- Connect_Factor_to_Online: This denotes the factor for connecting traffic relative to an online service.
- Notes: An extra field for you to populate user notes.
To analyze the effects of an airline transitioning between alliances, remove its IATA code from one alliance and add it to the new one within the table.