What is your suggestion?
For some aircraft that have technical issues that need hangers to fix or need some small check (for players owned aircraft), we can reassign a hanger or stand in the maintenance area for them, tug them to the spot, do the works, assign another stand or their original stand after finished, and tug them there.
How would it work in the game?
we may need to add some hangers and maintenance bay on the maintenance area, if thereāre such things, those can be a part of buildable.
#28 Updates, New Features, and the Road Ahead
since they now gonna let the pilot check the aircraft and discover technical issues, we can set an interval between disembarking/unloading and handling process after that, to give pilot a chance to check their aircraft and determine whether they should go somewhere else to repair their aircraft, if they need repairs, theyāll stop the handling process as well as the timer, to request a stand in maintenance area, after assigned and pushed āpushback/taxiā button, the tug will tug the aircraft to the assigned stand, once they finished their work, they can go back to where they come from or request another stand. But the maintenance process usually takes some time so the flight will be count as cancelled and the last digit of flight number for the fixed aircraft need to be changed in a way temporary(they come back to normal after a flight)
As for player owned aircraft, this can be done after the contract is finished and checks are required.
Assigning hangers/maintenance stands can be done by delivery, and the pushback and taxi can be done by ground, just like normal operations.
Why is this a good idea?
Tugging aircraft on the ground is a very common practice, some aircraft may have problems that have to go to hangers, and those finished maintenance need to go back to bridges to pick up passengers, besides, players owned aircrafts need small checks pretty often and when they do so they will occupy the stands that is vary valuable for airports like IAD and so on.
also, repairing otherās aircraft can be a way to make some income, many modern airports have hangers for checking aircrafts, but we couldnāt see how can we take advantage from it so far in the game, if we can make hangers useful, it could bring us even more stands and flexibility, especially when weāre short on bridges, anyway, having your flight docked to bridge is always better isnāt itš
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