01-30-2017, 10:40 PM
Alright so I ran into a bit of a predicament. What happens if you don't have enough gates at a particular airport when it comes time to land one of your aircraft?
For example lets say you have 1 gate at LAX. You already have 1 plane on-ground at LAX that is currently using your gate. Then, you launch a new flight to LAX. It would be wrong to prevent takeoff of that flight, because the aircraft en-route to LAX doesn't need the gate until it lands, which could very well be several hours from now. But what if when it lands, that first aircraft is still at LAX taking up the gate?
In CA v4, I think the game would simply prevent you from landing until you cleared up one of your gate spaces, but this game lands planes automatically and I don't want to leave planes in limbo, flying around until a gate opens up.
What I was thinking, is to put the plane into "waiting" mode - go ahead and land it, but don't offload passengers or reward the flight revenue until a gate opens up. This would essentially delay the flight. Have enough of these, for long enough periods of time, and your image will suffer, passengers will complain and so on. I assume there would also be extra costs associated with leaving a plane occupied and running on the ground for an extended period of time.
For example lets say you have 1 gate at LAX. You already have 1 plane on-ground at LAX that is currently using your gate. Then, you launch a new flight to LAX. It would be wrong to prevent takeoff of that flight, because the aircraft en-route to LAX doesn't need the gate until it lands, which could very well be several hours from now. But what if when it lands, that first aircraft is still at LAX taking up the gate?
In CA v4, I think the game would simply prevent you from landing until you cleared up one of your gate spaces, but this game lands planes automatically and I don't want to leave planes in limbo, flying around until a gate opens up.
What I was thinking, is to put the plane into "waiting" mode - go ahead and land it, but don't offload passengers or reward the flight revenue until a gate opens up. This would essentially delay the flight. Have enough of these, for long enough periods of time, and your image will suffer, passengers will complain and so on. I assume there would also be extra costs associated with leaving a plane occupied and running on the ground for an extended period of time.