Ok… This is the best airport I have seen (Almost ever)!!! Is there a save available? Note: I liked every single post on this thread
Today was ‘big build’ day.
Firstly the second Large Runway was placed:
When this was complete, the CEO then had to decide when to remove the old Medium runway and fill in the missing bit of taxiway to connect up to the new runway. There was a 4.75 hour window between the last departure of one day and the first departure of the next. Hopefully this will be enough time for the contractors to do the work. Game save, deep breath - before the Tulip Airlines plane had even left the runway, the Ramp was marked for demolition, and as soon as the wheels left the tarmac, the runway likewise. At 4:05AM, the runway was almost complete and the missing Taxiway not yet started - the CEO had only laid the centre tiles for the taxiway lights, to prioritise these and give something for the planes to follow, but the materials were tied up somewhere in the entrance tunnel. Red exclamation marks started popping up all over the place - planes wanted to depart. The materials arrived, at last, and at 6:25AM the last of the tiles were laid and the taxiway lights lit. Planes started queueing up for departure, and the rest of the taxiway tiles laid.
With the old runway removed, there was space to put in a ‘Big Bird’ width taxiway in…:
…and then rearrange the access taxiways to the existing stands:
…followed by the taxiways for the Large stands and a ‘Hangar village’ tucked away in the corner of the airfield.
The CEO saw that there was scope for new Gates outside of the existing ones in Terminal B, so in anticipation, Gates 13 and 14 were renumbered 15 and 16.
With the two new medium hangars built the two old ones were demolished, enabling access to the new area, and clearing room for a couple of remote stands attached to Terminal A. The airlines there had been scheduling more Medium planes and there was quite a backlog to clear. With no free numbers low enough, the Remote Gates are Gates A and B. There is a limited amount of seating at Gate level, so there is a small waiting area at the top of the stairs leading to the Gate area.
With all the work being done to make room for the Large aircraft and resolve issues elsewhere in the airport, it was very late on in the session when the first Large Stand appeared.
Early the following morning, the first plane used a Remote stand, only the one scheduled, to make sure that everything worked OK. The PAX for the departing flight made it to the plane OK, so the outstanding flights were scheduled.
The Large Stand was completed and connected to the baggage bay and its boarding desks. It just awaits the first flight request…
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Bit of building, a bit of tidying-up today.
Started off by adding extra bits to the underground Transit Hubs - more Car drops, a Short- and Long-term car parks, and subway entrances.
I saw I was a bit remiss yesterday and mentioned, but not pictured, the waiting area for the Remote Gates in Terminal A:
‘Big Bird’ flights were absent until the second Large Stand was built, then they started to trickle in.
(Note the shop that has appeared in the Terminal, satisfying more than a few passenger gripes…)
Tulip Airlines got the honour of being the first one in:
…and out, causing a slight traffic jam as a result…
The staff were finding it difficult to get to the Gates on time, so a small staff room was built by the staff stairs leading to the International Zone, and the staff elevator down to the Baggage Area was extended up to Level 1:
With the money rolling in, why not build the third and last Large Stand?
Underneath the Terminal, a parking lot to keep a selection of vehicles nearby, and the two pushback trucks for the hangars. The Maverick Trailer Fuel truck and the Catering Truck have been called elsewhere…
It appears that two Catering Trucks (capacity 500 each) are needed to stock up a flight with only 146 PAX on board…
It’s not as if they are waiting on food to be produced at the Catering Depot…
So all the available land within reach of the airside facilities has now been used:
A third small hangar has been built with the other two at the end of the taxiway, and the one by the GA zone, little used as the GA planes bypassed this to get to one of the hangars at the far end of the taxiway, has been replaced by a sixth GA stand:
Big queues were building up in the arrivals Passport Control, so a few more gates were put in:
With three Maverick Trailer Trucks on the roster, the Jet A-1 fuel was being consumed at a rate that the Fuel Supplier couldn’t keep up with, so the Fuel Depot was maxed out with attached tanks to keep a comfortable buffer…
Almost finished, just a quick look at the Flight Status report:
…and an Operations Report. All it needs is a few more Large Aircraft flights and the 10000 PAX per day mark could be eclipsed…
Just as the session ended, a dire emergency could mean hard times ahead…
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Apart from periodic additions to the underground Transit Zones, very much a build up to 10000 PAX today.
A couple of gates built on the end of the Domestic Gate arm on Terminal B. The building was cut short of the full width of the stand to stop side-swiping by passing big birds, so the Jetway-connected Gate B14 was constructed first while the access to the neighbouring Walk-on stand for Gate B13 was sorted out.
Extra Security Checkpoints installed to ease the queues:
The scene at 00:15 hours:
Our first engine fire Emergency on the Large Arrivals Runway:
The PAX deboarded at the Emergency Gate:
…and the Ramp Agents unloaded the Baggage…
… and it was taken to the Baggage Bay, where it disappeared from the Baggage Trailer without being loaded to the conveyor belt…
The first plane to use the Large Hangar emerges after the completion of its repairs:
It seems quite a few airlines that serve the airport have blue and white livery…
The Ambulance Airline has a livery that looks suspiciously like Coast 2 Coast…
And…
We did it!
…and it wasn’t a fluke…
With Beta 3 dropping on Default branch and this build having gone as far as it can, now is the time to draw a line and start something new…
Loading this airport under Beta 3 did something to the purchased zones (as was warned):
The last Operations report prior to Beta 3 showed daily PAX throughput up to near 12,000:
See you again in the future with another build!
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that is just so funny