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SkyStaffextra News #6

SCL or MCT?

The CEO of SkyStafextra asked the community kindly for a choice between SCL or MCT. A poll says, that 48% are for MCT and 36% for SCL, the other 16% couldn’t decide.

So: Why MCT?

MCT is one of the biggest airports in the Middle East, with Oman Air’s hub, we can reach many destinations.

About our fleet:

We can extend it to any airport in WoA! That means we can easily farm XP and get big progress. Our only problem are unique arrivals. Mostly, they are E planes. We have 1 Apron E stand and rn we have 8 unique arrivals in the contracts.

“Those big boys are stealing crew and equipment for the smallers, but they give us a massive XP bomb.”

In the forum post SCL or MCT, @CJ_RVWilliams, @Matejake , @Jogi747 , @Thatflyerguy and @Hirohitoswaifu discussed and explained, why MCT or SCL is better:

@CJ_RVWilliams :

MCT is the only airport in the game that can connect to every playable airport, and a large chunk of these are doable with C planes. If you’re okay flying CRJs / ERJs / F70s primarily for B, then you’ll get what you want. If you’re looking for more prop B connections I’d stick in Central Europe.

The main advantage of SCL is that it has an incredibly fast ramp up time when you start a play session. The taxi times from landing to gate are quite short in general, and the airport is a newer and nicer model. SCL with its overlapping stands will also allow more C planes to park at once I believe, but I’d have to count to confirm that. SCL also has a nicer (and newer) model.

Neither of these airports utilize many remote stands, though I think SCL has slightly fewer.

@CJ_RVWilliams

The two cargo aprons at SCL and MCT are both pretty small, but overall neither airport is all that good at it due to small number of stands.

You have 6 A-F cargo stands + 1 D-F that overlaps with 2 A-C cargoes at SCL.

You are limited to 3 A-F cargo and 5 A-C cargoes at a time at MCT as there are no overlapping stands here in game.

@Jogi747

MCT offers more connections for class b and c.

@Thatflyerguy :

MCT has better connectivity, but SCL is VASTLY more fluid and fun to play. It is the only airport i have played all the way to maxing out without getting tired of it. It is probably one of the smoothest operating airports in the game, which is not exactly the reputation of MCT haha. MCT tends to be a massive pain to use because of the absurd taxi times around the airport given the unfortunate runway config. i would personally very much recommend SCL over MCT. The main downside from your perspective will be the fact that it has significantly less connectivity at the B/C class levels than MCT, but I will say I never found that to be a significant limitation.

@Hirohitoswaifu

MCT’s cargo is a bit of a pain as well whereas I find SCL’s to be great, they’re out of the way whereas ar MCT the freighters can block up the pax access to take off. Also, MCT has 2 take off areas for the Southern runway which I find quite annoying. I might be biased though as I do like SCL lol.

I shortly summarize:

MCT reaches all airports and is massive, cargo hurts and it’s old, but for B & C it is cozy (what I wanted )

SCL is way newer, has combined stands, better cargo than MCT, but it’s bad for B and C class, bcz GRU is only airport reachable (SXM too).

F70 at BRI!

Today, we celebrate the first own bought and first plane at BRI! The F70 registered as I-DLZ

landed today at 11:45 UTC +1 at BRI! It is waiting to get a connection.

Thanks for reading, happy gaming, flying and reading

Skytra, CEO of SkyStaffextra, the SkyStaffextra Group and Global Sky Alliance [GSA - Global Sky Alliance]