Feature request title:
Cargo Terminal Airport Expansion
Description:
Let’s add a terminal for cargo flights as a game expansion! This would include new types of contracts, liveries, staffing requirements, and storage buildings. Existing game components would still be used, like creation of a cargo terminal and possibly terminal zone to support cargo operations. Inside the terminal would potentially include reuse of baggage handling conveyors but with the addition of new elements like cargo sorting equipment requiring new staff - or at the very least contract operators. Aircraft hangers would be reused but new warehouse buildings and vehicles would be added, such as forklifts.
Why it should be implemented:
When recreating our favorite airports, we often have to skip past the significant portion of airport infrastructure dedicated to cargo ramps, hangars, and warehouses. It would also add an additional economic factor for smaller airports which may struggle to achieve profitability. Plenty of airports like Paine Field in Everett, WA or Boeing Field in Seattle, WA are primarily general aviation or cargo airports with only a handful of commercial flights per day. Recreating these airpots without cargo operations is economically unviable in Airport CEO today. Even big commercial airpots like SeaTac are almost 50% dedicated to cargo. While only 1 percent of the worlds freight travels by air, it still amounts to over 60 million metric tons per year! Let’s get in on some of that opportunity.
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