Closing home base?

[sdbelgium]

Hello,

I don't know if this is the right place for this, but I'll post it here.

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Airline ID: 15738
World ID: 398
Current world year: 2001
Current bases: (DXB), EWR, ZRH, DFW
DOC: € 8,158,590
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I had a home base in Dubai and focus cities in Zurich, Newark and Dallas Fort Worth. I wanted to open up a new base in Xi'an, China. But the game rules only allowed for one domestic base and 3 foreign bases. So I decided to close the domestic base to open up a fourth foreign base in China.

However, if I want to rent a gate (somewhere in the world, doens't matter where), I get this "Select starting base" and a dropdown list featuring only airports in the Middle East.

Now I'm stuck and don't know what to do? Was I wrong in closing my original base? Can I do something so I can rent gates again?

Thanks for the help.

[Skiaplg]

I think that you can only choose airports in the Middle East because that is where your 'home' is- you chose your 'home' part of the world when you chose to make Dubai your first base.

[dktc]

Two things you could do.

1. Use OCP instead of the rent button to bypass the "select starting base" list
2. Recreate a base somewhere within Middle east area