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Game Data / Multiple airports in database: Ireland

« on: May 09, 2008, 08:42:33 pm »

The following four airports seem odd to me. They have similar names (at least three of them), all the same pax-numbers, and the fourth one has "ZZZZ" as icao. Probably some of them are obsolete?

INQ EIIR Inisheer pax:18,250 cgo:2  
IIA EIMN Inishmaan pax:18,250 cgo:5  
IOR EIIM Inishmore pax:18,250 cgo:15  
NNR ZZZZ Inveran pax:18,250 cgo:19

At the moment I am serving all of them in world 6... makes me a bundle...

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Bugs / Typos - centralized thread

« on: May 09, 2008, 08:37:24 pm »

Some misspelled Airport names:
Slovakia:
Sliac should be Silac
(change place of the L and I)

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Bugs / Typos - centralized thread

« on: May 03, 2008, 01:15:51 am »

Airport Names:
Abakhan: change to Abakan
Liepaya: change to Liepaja
Helsink-Malmi: change to Helsinki-Malmi
Saarmelleek: change to Sarmellek
Karlovy: change to Karlovy Vary
Clermont: change to Clermont-Ferrand
(KV and CF-Airports: The cities have names that consist of two parts, the second part is not a denominator of the airport)

Also: Blue Danube Airport Linz: Make it just Linz
Bolzano: change to Bolzano/Bozen (as the province is bi-lingual)
And most of your Ukraine airports are in the DB with their russian name, better change them to the current names:
Lvov -> L'viv
Kharkov Osnova -> Kharkiv
Kiev Borispol -> Kiev Boryspil // Kyyv Boryspil'
Odessa -> Odesa

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Game Data / Ilyushin Il-76TD

« on: May 01, 2008, 11:27:21 am »

According to Wikipedia, the Il-76TD is a transport aircraft, not a passenger aircraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il-76

I know, Wikipedia is not 100% reliable, but I guess in that case, the Il-76TD should probably be deleted from the game, unless cargo arrives.

Probably it could be changed to Il-86, which is a passenger plane, but it is already in operation in AM.

Maybe you could offer the operators of Il-76TD some free compensation planes, that have similar specs?

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General Chat / Supersonic Planes

« on: April 29, 2008, 06:38:32 am »

I use my Tu-144 on short/medium haul instead. quite profitable, as it can make nearly twice as many turns a day as a conventional plane. (Heathrow-Lipetsk, for example, makes a bundle)
but I guess, I would be better off with 3 MD-82 instead.

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General Chat / Promo stuff

« on: April 28, 2008, 03:25:25 pm »

Sure a promo... I show the great places you can reach with my airline
It's a bit big... I know... Sorry for that.
Maybe I should resize it.

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General Chat / Promo stuff

« on: April 28, 2008, 02:35:18 pm »

I am CEO of DanAvija running in World 6. I created the following ad:

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Game Data / Shymkent PAX:

« on: April 20, 2008, 05:30:14 pm »

PAX and Cargo for SHYMKENT (Kazakhstan):

According to the airport's web-page (it's in russian, so I hope I got everything right)
http://www.airserver.kz/rus/persp.asp

PAX 2006: 111665
PAX 2007 (estimation): 134280
PAX 2008 (prognosis): 199905

Cargo 2006: 2713 metric tons
Cargo 2007 (estimation): 400 t
Cargo 2008 (prognosis): 593 t

Greetings, Daniel

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Game Data / Airports in Russia

« on: April 18, 2008, 09:40:12 am »

There are many examples of Airports, that name themselves after cities that are really far away:
Milano Bergamo for example - about 80 km

Low Cost Carriers do the same. SkyEurope or Ryanair call Bratislava Airport "Vienna (Bratislava)", which is really strange.
Although it is only 70 km from Vienna, it is pretty unfair to name it this way, as it is the major Airport of Slovakia and serves the capital of an independend country. Making Bratislava an annex of Vienna is really a weird thing.

But of corse, the name of the airports are cosmetic, and for the game play of only minor importance.

At the moment, there is one airport under construction near C.Budejovice, Czech republic. And many military airfields in Russia opened just recently or will open soon for commercial aviation. This might be another topic, though.
At the moment, I am working on a project about airports, therefore I do a lot of research on this topic - this is also how I found this game "by mistake". It is kinda difficult to find official PAX-data for eastern european countries, but there are several airports in european Russia that have at least a few scheduled flights a week and that are not in the database: Pskov, Veliki Novgorod, Petrozavodsk, Tver, Rzhev, Solovetskiy Island, just to mention a few.
If I find something, I will post it.

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Game Data / Airports in Russia

« on: April 17, 2008, 02:47:46 pm »

The official name of the Airport in Vienna is Flughafen Wien Schwechat (in german) or Vienna International Airport (in english), both versions are official.

You are right, Tolmachevo is the official name, not Novosibirsk. Novosibirsk is not shown on the aireport's website, either

Although, Koltsovo is referred to as "Ekaterinburg-Koltsovo" on the website. And Pulkovo is also named as Sankt Peterburg-Pulkovo.

But of corse, it can be argued, which name has priority over the other. My suggestion was to name the airports after the major city, and maybe include the local name when necessary. But going after official naming is fine, too.

By the way, when going for official names: The Airport Weeze in Germany is not supposed to be named as "Düsseldorf (Weeze)". Although Ryanair and other LCC name the airport after Düsseldorf, there was a court rule that disallowed it. Compare: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_Weeze
I know... wikipedia is not a reliable source, but still...

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Game Data / Airports in Russia

« on: April 17, 2008, 01:14:21 pm »

I don't know, if anyone already suggested it, but there are a couple of airports in Russia, that should change their names.
They are currently listed under the village they are located, when they would better be listed as the major city they are serving.
Some examples:
Pulkovo-2 should be St. Petersburg
Tolmachevo should be Novosibirsk
Khrabrovo should be Kaliningrad
Koltsovo should be Yekaterinburg
Talagi should be Arkhangelsk

Currently, it would be like listing Vienna (VIE) as Schwechat. I suppose, this is not limited to these examples, and not limited to Russia. Let me know, if I should do some basic research on that.

Also, two airports in Poland have special characters, that mess up in my browser with unreadable signs. Better change them to "normal" letters:
Lodz and Poznan

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Game Data / States, Provences, Counties oh my!

« on: March 14, 2008, 04:45:54 pm »

14 Austria
(14, 'Burgenland'), (14, 'Kärnten'), (14, 'Niederösterreich'), (14, 'Oberösterreich'), (14, 'Salzburg'), (14, 'Steiermark'), (14, 'Tirol'), (14, 'Vorarlberg'), (14, 'Wien')

Kärnten: 126
Niederösterreich: 128
Oberösterreich: 1412
Salzburg: 127
Steiermark: 124
Tirol: 125

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General Chat / REAL CORP 008: Mobility Nodes as Innovation Hubs

« on: March 14, 2008, 04:22:20 pm »

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