hello! is MSY worth it? and what are some interesting things there and other things that dont make it amazing…?
MSY is so fun and fairly easy to grind I would get it
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It’s a unique airport layout with interesting stands, however there is little widebody stands for pax planes, at max capacity there can only be 6 pax widebodies (2F 2E 2D) at the same time. The cargo terminal gives 3 widebody cargo stands (2F and 1E) making it quite small.
The layout is good as the planes exit right at the terminal and most narrow bodies take off from the second perpendicular runway.
The contracts are nice as it reaches almost everywhere in the world. The free pass gives some unique liveries being the:
Aviation daily A388
Southwest Orange B38M
Old Delta B762
Blue Tulip United B772
American Silver B772
Over all it is a fun airport but has a difficult grind. I personally use widebody cargo planes with player contracts to make it Speedy. I like it as it sort of acts like 2 airport with the old side and new side that you can switch between.
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Here are my thoughts:
Contracts
The premium pass has a bunch of really great historic contracts. They aren’t necessarily realistic if thats important to you (especially in terms of destinations).
For map contracts, if you are going realistic, you are going to be limited to the American trinity and a few budget carriers, plus Air Canada Rogue and British Airways. Of course, you can get a wide variety of contracts at international if you don’t care about realism. For regional contracts you do have a few historic US contracts if you want (Mesa, Republic, Silver Airways).
Overall Grade: B+ - kinda boring contracts but nothing missing in a glaring fashion, and these boring contracts are made up for in the pass’ unique contracts.
Stands
There’s a few missing stands that really irk me mainly the lack of a D stand in the Fedex cargo terminal and a lack of a D stand in the Delta side of pier C.
In addition there’s a few weird B stands that should be overlapping C stands and aren’t, so not sure what the logic is here at all.
I personally really enjoy having the stands for the old terminal even though it’s not used anymore. I run my own fleet out of the old terminal, and run IRL contracts from the new terminal which is a nice balance.
Overall grade: B+ – some missing stands, but overall the flexibility the abandoned terminal gives is great for having your own fleet and IRL contracts without making sacrifices somewhere.
Grinding
I feel like a lot of people try to play this airport not to its strengths with too many large aircraft and that makes it more challenging than it needs to be. All D+ aircraft, cargo aircraft, and some C aircraft use the same runway for takeoff and landing. If you block off the C stands that use that runway, you can make all C planes flow smoothly, landing on one runway and taking off on the crossing runway. This makes it run smoothly and quickly.
Overall Grade: A- – Requires some choices that limits aircraft types in order to flow smoothly, but that also makes it unique and fun.
Aesthetics:
The ragtag old terminal is well done and fits the era it was built, and the dichotomy is really nice with the new terminal. I love that part. The modeling around the airport is boring and ignorable though, and that does detract from my experience.
Overall Grade: D – cool structure, but not enough to save it from the lack of interest around it.
Personally, it’s my favorite airport of the 3 in the USA, but thats a low bar given how poorly both SAN and IAD replicate their IRL counterparts. Its gets a solid C+ grade from me – good but unspectacular.
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thank for the info! since im canadian im probably going to turn it into an air canada hub lol anyways thank you for the info and i think ill save up for it!
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There’s nothing I like more than having a few mint green air Canada planes at my airports! Really love that livery.
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Mint green? It’s black and red (ACR is red and white)
He talks about planes that look like toothpaste.
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That livery is really cool. Big fan of it and its a pity its being lost to a more generic black and white one.
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oooh… my bad lol
I think tht for it’s price is worth it, it have many B-C class, the only downfall it’s that it haven’t manny D-E-F class
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I liked MSY far more than I thought I would because I could run real life contracts from the new terminal and my own airline from the abandoned terminal. I focused on narrow body aircraft and with the A21NY I was still able to have longer range flights to Europe and South America. This is the first airport where I was able to 100% rely on the scheduler for all of my flights. Overall it is a fun and efficient airport so long as the focus is on narrowbody aircraft.
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And the Air Canada A220 retro livery 
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