Choice of Aircraft Country Registration

[Thunderstruck]

Hello,

All new aircraft purchased by an airline will bear a registration number of the country in which the airline set up it's first hub.

My first hub is at Paris CDG, so although my airline also has hubs in Beijing, Bangkok, Chicago or Vienna, all my airline's aircraft are registered with a French number type F-ABCD.

I think it would be a good feature if we could select which country we could register each new aircraft in. It would be nice to see OE-ABC flying out of Vienna, and HS-ABC taking off out of Bangkok Suvarnabhumi.  

Ciao.

[danio100]

I think thats nice!!

[1993matias]

Speaking as an AM-user here; I think it would be a great addition to the game, but if you have bases in, let's say, ten countries, then you'll have a lot of options, maybe too many? It could confuse new players, and making it an opt-in feature would complicate the system.

[Virgin Serbia]

Most Aeroflot planes are registered in Ireland. Just saying...

[1993matias]

They might be leased? I don't know, but it sounds plausible

[Commercial Air Services]

I was just about to post a topic to this affect. I operate an airline in Africa and is planning to open many bases across the continent. I was really hoping to register my aircraft according to the country they operate from. You see in real life operating a South African registered aircraft based out of Kenya, for instance, would require either basing SA licensed crew together with the aircraft or licensing Kenyan crew in South Africa to be able to operate that aircraft in Kenya. Both options would cost a lot and require some serious organization. If it is going to be based out of there anyway for its entire lifetime it would make more sense to just put the aircraft on that countries books and operate it accordingly.

But alas... we're all doomed to accept the less logical option for the sake of practicality.

[1993matias]

I use aircraft regardless of where their previous hub was, so I would not benefit from that feature. But maybe some day in the far future Stephen will find time to make less important improvements; he just have to finish the important ones first.

[Virgin Serbia]

They might be leased? I don't know, but it sounds plausible

Correct, but the leasing company is owned by Aeroflot