You guys know if the devs are going to add like passengers ,when the plane go in a jetway stand,
get off half by stairs and half by the jetway because irl in almost all airport half of the passengers exit the plane by stairs and the other half by the jetway
Really, because I’ve been to many places and not once have I seen that
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Ima be honest I’ve never seen this before, so I highly doubt it
It also does not strike me as being particularly important for the amount of necessary dev time
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Usually (almost always) only the main cabin door is used by passengers for boarding or exiting (except in case of an emergency when they would use the inflatable slides). I have never seen passengers boarding or exiting through the rear doors on a plane even at gates that have no jetway.
Never seen this ever before, airlines have to pay extra for jetbridge services at airports so it wouldn’t make sense for them to do half on jetbridge and half on stairs
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I have seen it with some stands without a jet bridge, such as a lot of budget airports in Europe, where you simply walk into the plane. And at some small airports too, like NWI in the UK.
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I live in ADL and that happenes even every time when I fly QF. But they don’t do it in SYD or MEL. A bit weird.
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Mainly at smaller airports if it’s at a remote stand (or Ryanair) you board and deboard from both the front and rear doors in most of Europe from my experience. This only never happens when there is a jetbridge. So for me my homebase is BRU and there I have always boarded via the jetbridge. But at EIN they have no jetbridges, so they board both from the front and rear on the plane. Also deboarding happens this way.
And for example both in SSH (737) and PUJ (787) we used remote bus gates and both at the front and the rear we deboarded and boarded again both times.
Edit: When I was at AGP and went back home I flew with Ryanair. It was parked at a gate with a jetbridge and we needed to walk through that, but we didn’t use the jetbridge. We went down the stairs of the building connected to the jetbridge down to the tarmac and boarded at both the front and rear of the plane. Ryanair has build in stairs I believe, so both not using a jetbridge or the airport stair vehicles reduces costs. But apart from that, if there was a jetbridge we used a jetbridge. Otherwise both front and rear stair boarding
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That might be why I haven’t seen this before. The closest commercial airport to me is KICT (Wichita, KS) and the only European airports I have been to are LHR (London Heathrow) and BER (Berlin Brandenburg). The US has a lot more aviation regulations which might include not using the rear doors. The only airport I have flown into and not used a jetway was KSEA (Seattle-Tacoma Intl’). Again, only the main door was used. That’s all I know.
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Yeah and the only airports I’ve been to outside of Europe have been SSH (Asia) and PUJ (Caribbean). All others where mostly holiday airports in Greece, Turkey, Spain, Bulgaria and a few bigger ones too (AGP, BCN). So probably a big thing in Europe or a weird American quirck 
Apparently Alaska has tried this before:
Customers board simultaneously from the front and back doors of the airplane. The problem? The two waves of passengers collided in the middle, creating a serious traffic jam around row 18. While not a good fit for Alaska’s 737 jets, customers flying regional partner Horizon Air have been boarding this way for years with no problems.
https://news.alaskaair.com/alaska-airlines/how-boarding-works/
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I think a lot of attention needs to be paid by the devs to how boarding works at different airports and for different types of small planes.
For example, the passengers arriving by bus to the regional gates at IAD and to any S plane at a stand in SAN is ludicrous. CRJs and ERJs, are all easily boarded via a jet bridge (sometimes requiring a metal ramp to connect the jet bridge to the plane), and DH8Ds occasionally will be as well. If it isn’t a remote stand, we just walk down the stairs and out of the terminal on the plane.
Much about S planes and jet bridges will need to be coded with both type and location in mind, as there are differing traditions between the US and elsewhere.
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Mainly low cost European airport but also main airport (like DUB) they have mainly stands both Ryanair and main airlines uses these stands with no jet bridges apart from main pier of T2 and one nearby it, I been on Ryanair with dual boarding same with some Aer Lingus flight, it’s very very common in Europe and you should pay attention if you visit Europe soon
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That’s right
Yes RYR do have built in stairs on all a/c, which sorry to deviate slightly from topic really annoys me when at airports with limited jet bridge stands like ACE, they get jet bridge stands and don’t use the jet bridges.
For myself last week, flying on jet2 with a pram and an 18 month old, having to carry the pram down stairs to a bus then back up again to the plane when 3 RYR were sat on contact stands not using the jet bridges whilst our plane was parked on a remote stand was frustrating to say the least
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Well than don’t go to DUB then, they have some limited availability for jet bridges, I feel like I’m cursed since everytime I left I always use stairs (it’s not Ryanair tho)
So I haven’t played INN in a while but had a bunch of event contracts and needed to clear space. This is already in game at INN. Just needs to be coded for other airports. This looks so good though… I hope it comes soon.
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It’s also been added at Bari to the two stands in the main terminal that do t have jetbridges
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