What is coming in the future?
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The World of Airports developer team has always been relatively open about their plans for the future, and while they never have gone as far as publishing a roadmap or dates, we do have a reasonably good understanding of what will come in the future. things do change frequently, and a good chunk of what they unveil has never come to fruition, or took years. (Look at MSY, the 767, and Alliances, to name just a few)
Stuff we are reasonably confident about
This category is all the things that have been mentioned repeatedly or we know for certain is in development to some stage or another
Airports
SCL
Santiago airport in Chile is the next airport to arrive to WoA. it is in honor of a developer who is recovering from serious health issues. it will be the second playable airport in south america.
This image, released in devblog #27, shows the state of completion of SCL.
Generic Airports
The concept of generic airports is essentially that the dev team will create several models of airports, which aren’t a realistic recreation of any particular airport, but look similar to many across the globe. The value of this system is that it enables development to be made much faster. This system will NOT replace the high-quality models that the team already produces but simply will augment them. The most played/appreciated generic airports will be upgraded to the level of realism that is expected of current airports.
The smallest variant of generic airport nears completion in early May.
Aircraft
Fokker 70/100
Livery painting is in progress for the Fokker.
The Fokker 70 and 100 have been in development for some time now. The above picture is from early may, but the following pictures were released all the way back in September of 2024.
Boeing 747-8/8F
The models are complete for this family also, which can be viewed in the landing gear demo from may. We don’t know too much else, beyond the fact that the F variant will come with the standard one.
Embraer ERJ
The Embraer Regional Jet, or ERJ, which encompasses the -135, -140, and -145, is one of the next up for development. The entire Embraer commercial lineup will be added, and this is likely the next section of that. All of these will of course be updated to gen 3 standard.
An ERJ-135 of Western Air, suggesting livery painting is in progress and the models are complete.
Embraer E2
We know very little about this, but Kubasan has mentioned having “New-Gen Ejets” in addition to the ERJs, and later confirmed it meant the E2.
Features
Alliances
This one had an entire Devblog dedicated to it! If you want more info, I highly recommend checking it out. Essentially, though, there will be ingame alliances, in which each member is responsible for a specific airport. The goal is to have as many routes as possible across all members. There will be a message board, and more routes = higher rating = greater rewards. Alliances will have their own set of liveries. there will be the option to jointly manage some fleet aircraft, and there will be a hangar system. New members will be added by a vote of all current members. You can also be removed. The alliance will have a global radar that shows all connections and aircraft operated by the alliance.
Stuff we think is possible but not yet certain.
This is for things the developers have talked about or hinted at but that we cannot yet consider confirmed.
Airports
Yellowknife
Yellowknife airport in northern Canada is home to Buffalo Airlines. In the september 2024 Dev Chat, someone asked what one of the next airports would be, and Kuba responded that it would be a special one with a based airline partnership, and to expect it to take a while. Later in the dev chat, someone else asked if he could hint at the partnership, and his response was a buffalo. Buffalo airlines makes the most sense, and they are based in Yellowknife. They also operate the DC-3, which he is known to want to be added to the game.
African Airport
It has long been known that an African airport is very high on the Dev wishlist, and based on previous dev comments in dev chats, it is very likely it will be in South Africa, and more specifically either Cape Town or Johannesburg/ O.R. Tambo.
Aircraft
Douglas DC-3
Kubasan has mentioned repeatedly that the DC-3 is his favorite aircraft, and one of his top choices to add to the game. Also, if yellowknife is added, the DC-3 would likely be too, because one of the primary aircraft operated by Buffalo Airlines is the DC-3.
Features
Challenges
Almost nothing is known about this, but it was teased in a dev chat over a year ago as being an alternate way of making money that would be linked to alliances. More recently, Kubasan discussed it in a devblog, and revealed that it will essentially be a system of events which will require the alliance to coordinate to achieve tasks and earn rewards and bonuses.
Scheduling/Gate Assignment
This appears to be a system that enables the Dev team to “Distribute arrivals more precisely across individual stands [and] serialize and prioritize the arrival queue.” It is likely still quite a ways out.