If a Passenger's Bag is on an Aircraft and the Passenger Is Not, hold the flight

[pderuiter]

Semi interesting. In queue or crowd, different speeds don’t matter much

[Henke]

gives the game a little more realism, due to everybody walk at different speed

[pderuiter]

I agree, but practically it won’t really matter
As in, this could be done if a lot of other things - that add more gameplay - are done

[Olof]

@Yukawa

Ok, some insights from a German airport…

Very interesting reading! Thanks, gave me a lot of insight.

@ZRH_Marcel

So I can tell you how we do it at my home base. So if a passenger doesn’t show up at the gate and he has checked in bags we start to look for the bags 15 min before STD. When the bag has been found we offload the pax and the bag. If a bag doesn’t show up because of any irregularities we won’t wait for the bag to keep the flight on time. The missing bag will be send as “rush” bag on the next available flight.

I think this sums up pretty well how we’ll go about it, we’ve put quite a lot of effort into the code when it comes to time keeping and time tracking (since so much of the simulation revolves around exact dates and times) and have a rigorous system for measuring and checking time flow. Setting business rules like these will allow the simulation to continue even though some agents won’t make their destination, we could even make it so that the CEO sets their own targets, i.e. how long to hold a flight for a delayed passenger or how long a baggage train will wait for a missing bag.

[ZRH_Marcel]

I think it would be an amazing idea that every CEO could set their own targets as not every CEO wants to run an airport the same way!

[Joshua]

They are called red bags when this happens and can really annoy the ground staff - the plane still has to get its takeoff slot.