Re:Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found
by tzs on Monday August 13, 2018 @10:55PM
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Another possibility is that there is more demand in one direction.
You might have a major city, A, a center of finance and law and full of corporate headquarters, and a smaller city, B, where many of the companies whose headquarters are in A have their engineering and manufacturing facilities.
Someone making a deal with one of those companies may need to visit both engineering to work out technical details first and then visit headquarters to work out business, financial, and legal details. They will travel from home to B, and then travel to A, and then when done travel directly home from A. This may happen much more than the other direction--people needing to visit headquarters first and then going to visit engineering and manufacturing, without needing to go back to headquarters.
Net result: more passengers needing B to A than A to B. This can result in A to B trips having empty seats. It might even result in some trips with no passengers at all! They can't simply cancel those trips, because they need to get the vehicles to B to handle the B to A traffic, so they sell seats cheap.
You might have a major city, A, a center of finance and law and full of corporate headquarters, and a smaller city, B, where many of the companies whose headquarters are in A have their engineering and manufacturing facilities.
Someone making a deal with one of those companies may need to visit both engineering to work out technical details first and then visit headquarters to work out business, financial, and legal details. They will travel from home to B, and then travel to A, and then when done travel directly home from A. This may happen much more than the other direction--people needing to visit headquarters first and then going to visit engineering and manufacturing, without needing to go back to headquarters.
Net result: more passengers needing B to A than A to B. This can result in A to B trips having empty seats. It might even result in some trips with no passengers at all! They can't simply cancel those trips, because they need to get the vehicles to B to handle the B to A traffic, so they sell seats cheap.