[Other] - Variable Airline Liveries

[Krankenwart]

Variable Airline Liveries per Aircraft Type:
-Variable Airline Liveries per Aircraft Type and Eventliverys

What is your suggestion?
Allow aircraft of the same airline and model to appear in different official liveries, adding visual variety and realism. When a player signs a contract with an airline and selects a destination and aircraft type, each arrival could have a chance of displaying one of several authentic liveries used by that airline.

Examples include:

• Lufthansa: New blue-tail livery, old yellow-crane livery
• Aegean Airlines: New and Old livery
• Condor
• Frontier Airlines
• Jet Blue
• Iceland Air
• Air New Zealand: Black and White Livery
• Nok Air
• SkyTeam, OneWorld, Star Alliance variations

Additionally, special “event liveries” could be unlocked in the WOApedia. Once unlocked, they could be purchased with Silver Planes and included in the same random rotation—occasionally appearing when the contracted aircraft lands, making them rare and exciting.

How would it work in the game?

• When signing a contract with an airline, the system would include a pool of livery variants tied to that aircraft model and airline.
• On arrival, the aircraft would randomly use one of the available liveries based on defined probabilities (e.g. 70% standard, 25% alternate, 5% special).
• Event liveries would be unlocked by daily events and purchasable with Silver Planes.

For example:
Step 1: sign a contract from DXB to IAD with Emirates on an A388.
Step 2: Normally a 100% chance of getting the normal livery.
Step 3: Unlock the “NBA” livery from WOApedia with SP for this route.
Step 4: 95% chance of getting the normal livery, 5% chance of getting the NBA livery.

Step 1: Book a flight from MUC to LHR with Lufthansa in an A320.
Step 2: Normally: 60% new livery, 40% old livery
Step 3: Unlock the Star Alliance livery via WOApedia
Step 4: New livery: 57.5%, old livery: 37.5%. Star Alliance: 5%

Condor: 25% chance per color for the A320 family, 20% on the A330neo

Why is this a good idea?
Realism: Airlines in the real world frequently operate multiple liveries within their fleets. Representing this makes the airport experience feel more alive and accurate. Visual Variety: Instead of seeing the same aircraft in the same look repeatedly, players enjoy a dynamic and diverse ramp. Collectability & Engagement: Unlocking and spotting rare liveries (especially event ones) adds a collectible element, encouraging long-term play and engagement. Monetization Option: Offering rare liveries via Silver Planes gives value to in-game currency without impacting gameplay balance. This system enhances visual appeal, deepens customization, and offers players a richer, more authentic aviation experience.

[Hirohitoswaifu]

This is actually a really good idea, would mean not having several contracts to have multiple different liveries, say Icelandair with their 737-8 Max’s as to have a bit of diversity with them, you have to have 4 contracts. Would say, however, if people wish to not include a new livery, Lufthansas for example cause it sucks (why’d they bin the yellow?), or Korean cause it also sucks (Why’d they bin all the colour?), they could avoid it.
Also, would allow for old United blue tulip and American chrome liveries to be mixed in as though 2014 was still around .

[horsepowergeek]

Isn’t this basically what I suggested with different Airline contracts

[Mitya]

@horsepowergeek What you mentioned sounds like a system where you sign a general contract with the airline, and then different aircraft types arrive randomly. That’s a great idea and definitely realistic — airlines usually use the same aircraft type on a specific route, but sometimes switch to another one depending on demand or operational needs. But if I understood it correctly, this would mean you can only have one contract per airline? That might not be ideal, especially for larger airports — it could make them feel a bit empty.Because instead of the desired 2 or 3 contracts with a specific airline that I’d like to have, there would be just one aircraft
If I’m understanding this correctly.

In the current discussion, I think the focus is more on liveries within a single aircraft type. For example, if I sign a contract with QATAR B77W, I would mostly receive the standard livery, but occasionally a special livery would show up randomly — like those in the example photos.

This way we can still enjoy visual variety without sacrificing the diversity of airline presence at the airport

[horsepowergeek]

Also if you have a problem with empty airports just get more contracts from different destinations. I believe I also mention it was an optional thing anyways, which means in theory both these suggestions could exist simultaneously (and honestly that’s be better imo, mor people could tailor it to themselves)

[horsepowergeek]

Though I didn’t mention it, what I suggested did also encompass the idea of an airline with multiple liveries sending a different livery, probably should’ve mentioned that bit

[Krankenwart]

Maybe a combination of both ideas would be nice.

[Krankenwart]

By the way, I still think my idea is a good one!
I think all the wonderful and elaborate event liveries are too good to be seen only once a year, if at all, and then only for a check-in.
I believe someone from the dev team once said that changing liveries would not be a technical problem, but changing models would. At least that’s something!
If the developers don’t want to deviate from the idea that events should appear as usual and cannot be purchased, that’s a shame, but it must be respected. But at least it would be great if the standard liveries could randomly changed. There are more and more airlines in the game with multiple standard liveries

Perhaps there are now more people in support of this idea and we can give it a new push

[Thatflyerguy]

I would completely agree with this, it feels like a game changer. Would be that though, as it would require an overhaul of the contracts system. I don’t think that’s a bad thing though, as the current system, while great for years, seems increasingly to have problems associated with the base premise of it.

[Hirohitoswaifu]

I was having a good solid think about this. What if it was related to the contract completion.

Say we’re at INN to begin with and you unlock a local contract to Venice with Austrian. It automatically provides the smallest like it does now which currently is the Q400 but which may in the future be one of the smaller Dash 8’s Dev willing . You land it, handle it and send it off and it comes back with the 1/1 contract completion. What if by clicking the contract completion button and then renew the contract it unlocks the next tier for Austrian, the F70.

You can then open a new small menu, say where the current information button is, allowing you to tick the Q400 off if you so wish, the F70 will automatically tick on.

This would give you control over the type of aircraft you want on a route and would allow for larger aircraft to be included, say for BA at LHR allowing for 757s to be available on routes into Europe, and once you hit 10/10 you may unlock the 767 or something. This would also work well for new and old liveries, say for ICE or Condor and the likes.

Again, reverting back to Austrian, you unlock the A319 (Not yet in-game I know ) and you get the choice of 3 different liveries, all that can be ticked on and off based on player choice (I’d have mine all ticked on as I like the variety), this would then give the player a randomised A319 like one of the 3 below,

So instead of having 3 contracts to have 3 different liveries at your airport, you could just have the one, allowing for more range in regards to contracts and for more variation, both in the liveries operated and in the aircraft types operated. You could even include in this feature winglets, as I know some players don’t like the variation such as on United’s 767’s (Which I love as I remember them rocking none back in the early 2010s).

I addition to that, you could then have special liveries unlocked at say 10/10 which would spawn say 10% of the time on a contract, locked if it is already on the airfield to prevent you have 7 arrive one after another, if you’re so lucky .

I’d love to see this looked into, it’s a fantastic suggestion Krankenwart

Also, for an extra bit, Condor would really benefit from this as you could have such a mix of types and liveries coming in and out of your airport,

And ofc you could get this mixed in then,

United as well would be at an advantage especially at IAD. If you wanted only the Continental/United livery, you could tick off the new blue livery and vice versa. Also, as I wrote above, it’d allow players like me to run a Blue Tulip fleet which I’d very much like to see, but understand it would fill up the contract selection screen and if players didn’t want it, would be annoying if they appeared in the random selection.

Actually, even better for the sheer amount of liveries and airlines I’ve requested and how that could be implemented without it potentially being a burden for other players.

[CJ_RVWilliams]

@Hirohitoswaifu

I addition to that, you could then have special liveries unlocked at say 10/10 which would spawn say 10% of the time on a contract, locked if it is already on the airfield to prevent you have 7 arrive one after another, if you’re so lucky .

I would love to see special liveries be obtainable, but I really don’t want them to randomly arrive. I want them to arrive every day. Right now SP is an underutilized currency, and if I could purchase these contracts with SP (perhaps only when they show up as an event contract) it would be something I would spend my SP on. And it would also make event contracts more special… right now 5 xp and 20 SP for a plane that takes 15 minutes to handle… PFFFFF! Not worth my time.

[Hirohitoswaifu]

My thoughts exactly. I look at the special liveries and unless I want them as part of a little photo shoot or haven’t yet unlocked them, I just don’t bother. In my idea jumping off Krankenwart’s, I thought once you’ve unlocked a contract to 10/10, the special liveries for said airline would also unlock depending on the class of the plane, so in theory you could unselect all other liveries just leaving the special. Means you have to work towards it but your reward is you get it permanatly. And no deleting of routes and struggling for slots this way either allowing for more realism. Hope the devs take a look at the original post.

[DHC8]

This sounds a lot like how you select planes in UATC

Personally I’d love this to be possible. I do recall a dev saying they have this on their drawing board but I’d like it to be random, not to see a plane that IRL is only painted on one aircraft pop up twice at once

[Hirohitoswaifu]

See, that’s the beauty of the click on and off system. If a player, like me and you, would prefer to have it randomised on a route, like say INN to FRA, we can click on DH8D’s, F100’s and maybe the A319 or something depending on what we’d like to see. Then at 10/10 we click on the special and you get a chance to get the special arrive as part of the mix. However, a player like CJ could then just select the special if they so wished. I’m glad to hear it’s on a drawing board somewhere, would really spice up the game and open up more route possibilities.

[Tanman]

Really like this idea, I was gonna suggest this originally but I didn’t really have any ideas on how this would work. Just know I fully give my support to the optimization of livery realism, and this should be one of the highest priority things to by added to WoA.

Also the stuff @Hirohitoswaifu has been saying in this thread is amazing, I agree with all of it.

[Hirohitoswaifu]

Cheers man. I know some people like to roll modern liveries so it can be a pain if the contract you are given is an old livery so it’d help with that. Plus the destination would then be the contract and you’d work towards the aircraft type and livery you’d want.