OneDotLow,
Looks like I'm slightly late to the game, but that's the price of being old and easily distracted...
Anyway, my reading of the tealeaves presented here is that it is all relative to your decision metrics:
- The simple things are increasing the thrust rating and writing the cheques to pay for it for as long as you do it.
- I gather that the cost for the increased thrust is particularly expensive.
- I surmise that having the flexibility to do a daily/weekly/monthly/seasonal change is particularly cheap compared to funding a permanently higher thrust rating
- making the decision is simple if you are happy with your decision metrics
- life rarely permits simple decision metrics when the cost of an error is high.
I have to admit that route planning and yield are most definitely not my bag, but my experience operating to and from Canberra suggests to me that it would be a very difficult market in which to closely modulate capacity (a consequence of performance) given the distortions due to Parliamentary sittings, the dominance of government-related travel vis a vis tourism and private travel and the effect of seasonal weather.
