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[aoumd]

So if you don't get into a lot of airports in the first few years, you can never get in as all gates at most worthwhile airports outside of your home country (where you cannot build terminals) are taken.

 

In reality, major international airports will add capacity when there is demand to bring flights, passengers, and dollars into the local economy.  They wouldn't expand because one foreign carrier wanted one extra gate, but if there's a large amount of demand from lots of carriers, the airport authority would certainly look into expanding capacity.

 

So how about AE implement a feature where when an international airport runs out of gates, you can "request gate construction."  When, say, five or ten gates' worth of construction is requested from a collection of airlines, then the gates get built.  The requesting airlines would have to pay a premium for these gates, so let's say the charge should be 2x what an airline in that country would pay per-gate to build a terminal in that airport.

 

This keeps the game from being a race to block out every gate in the first few years, and keeps established airlines on their toes as others can expand into their international hubs.

 

What do you think?

[Issa]

"In reality, major international airports will add capacity when there is demand to bring flights, passengers, and dollars into the local economy."

 

Tell that to London Heathrow and Gatwick, takes decades of arguing to decide where expansion occurs!

[Tesla]

Heathrow and Gatwick are different, they choose to refuse, and pay the price in extreme overcrowding.

[Issa]

i thought it was the Government who decides which can expand

[Pineair]

So if you don't get into a lot of airports in the first few years, you can never get in as all gates at most worthwhile airports outside of your home country (where you cannot build terminals) are taken.
 
In reality, major international airports will add capacity when there is demand to bring flights, passengers, and dollars into the local economy.  They wouldn't expand because one foreign carrier wanted one extra gate, but if there's a large amount of demand from lots of carriers, the airport authority would certainly look into expanding capacity.
 
So how about AE implement a feature where when an international airport runs out of gates, you can "request gate construction."  When, say, five or ten gates' worth of construction is requested from a collection of airlines, then the gates get built.  The requesting airlines would have to pay a premium for these gates, so let's say the charge should be 2x what an airline in that country would pay per-gate to build a terminal in that airport.
 
This keeps the game from being a race to block out every gate in the first few years, and keeps established airlines on their toes as others can expand into their international hubs.
 
What do you think?

keep your eyes open gates often become available in one of two ways. Airlines go bankrupt releasing gates or an airline builds a terminal thus releasing all the gates they previously occupied. Just keep going back and checking for availability.

[aoumd]

Thanks Pineair!

[Will101]

Heathrow and Gatwick got their terminal expansions, Heathrow got an upgraded T2 and T5 and Gatwick boosted capacity too. Their respective problems are (and will be for the future) runway slots which are a completely different issue when it comes to AE.

[Airboss777]

Pineair makes a good point but the original question is fair & valid.

[sound_guy0918]

In most worlds, the fact that you cant build terminals everywhere in the world is the only thing keeping minor league spamlines from becoming major league spamlines.  I am in favor of making terminal construction more difficult (expensive/longer wait/artificially capped) instead of removing all limits.

[mxax-ai]

Perhaps some gates could be restricted to foreign airlines (like 50% or something).

[Tesla]

Perhaps some gates could be restricted to foreign airlines (like 50% or something).

Those will just go like that as well.