Generic airports

Hi all

Firstly I’m extremely excited after reading the road map to see how much more amazing the incredible team make our beloved game.

One question I wanted to ask on the generic airports. I gather from what I’ve read is you can in effect operate the generic airport from many places, with that in mind will the airline contracts be specific for there e.g. if I put the airport at MAN will it be MAN related airlines to unlock like TUI jet2 etc..

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At the moment I don’t think anything about the generic airports is known other than the one image from one of the recent dev blogs and some brief mentions in a dev Q&A, however I would assume the contract system would be no different to every other airport.

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Great thank you :slight_smile:

As far as I know, it won’t make it possible to play any airport in the world. Rather, it will enable the devs to pick more airports (but not all) to develop. So you won’t choose where to put a generic airport. The devs will put them around the world, just like with normal ones, just there will be more of them at a lower standard of realism. Thats just my interpretation though, don’t take it for granted.

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i have mixed feelings about Generic airports and how they are gonna happen. I don’t really like how in UATC there are fake real life airports. This game was in my vision, better because it gave the option of using only real world airports. not fake ones.

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these will be real life airports, the modelling will just be slightly off.

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Ah that makes more sense than what was in my head.

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I also had a question about the Generic airports recently.
I know there’s very little information available. After reading «Devblog 27» and «What is coming in the future?», I got a bit confused. It wasn’t clear whether these will be actual airports with real ICAO/IATA codes, full location details, real airport names, local airlines, and a layout somewhat resembling the real-life one (like runways, taxiways, and stands) — just with lower visual quality…
Or if they’ll be completely random, template-based airports mainly designed just for handling player aircraft.

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It should be the former. There’s not much info out yet, but it sounds like it will be real world airports just like what we have in game, but they will use a template to make the model so it won’t be a perfectly accurate replica.

I’ll try to remember to update the wiki post to make it clearer

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