Airport Ideas

[tycoon550]

Having played TTD and OpenTTD for years, I had a few ideas about the airports so I signed up to the forum. I like the idea of having large airports (Intercontinental and even bigger) but what would be cool would be to have either two sections on the airport, one for a domestic terminal and one for an international terminal. If that wouldn't be workable another thought would be to have gates that you could assign for each aircraft (example in the orders you can tell it to go to Gate 4 at so and so airport) and then if two planes land at the same time to go to the same gate, one can wait for that gate to become available.

[ev.delen]

Nice idea Tycoon550!

I'm not sure about the rest, but right off the top of my head the two sections sections idea could be easy to do...

Right now, the intercontinental airport, if a plane lands on the north runway, it goes to the west side of the airport and takes off from the south. If a plane lands on the south, goes to east side, then takes off from north. There are taxiways so if one side of the terminal is full the plane can move to the other side.

The idea would be to put a filter on the runways, eg. only large planes can land on the north runway. This would help if you want to have a high capacy, long distance route have landing preference instead of just circling around the airport like any plane.

[Zuu]

Work is in progress to change the airport-system to use GRF-files. Have a look at this thread in develpoment-section: http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=33163