#Reactivation flights from Solada

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wild hornet
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A delivery flight, but with a twist. Instead of starting at a factory, you start at Solada and fly to a factory. From there, it will generate a delivery flight job that 2 players on the server could use.
This would mainly apply to:
Planes that were retired IRL (i.e 727-100, 720, 737-100, etc)
Variants of a plane that would be out of production in the modern day (i.e 737-500, MD-85, DC-10-10)
Or planes that are engine replacements/conversions (Super series DC-8, Convair CV-580, Super 727, etc).
Also obviously like the 787-8 this would only apply to niche variants that wouldn’t otherwise fit in the game. The examples provided are NOT me saying they should be locked behind a job and are just there to give an idea of what I mean.

barren swift
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This is a very good idea

fiery wedge
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holy this is peak

vocal parrot
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basically the opposite of a retirement job

wild hornet
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Unlocking like the DC-2 or DC-9-10

vocal parrot
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that would be cool

vivid ermine
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omw to camp in solada

vocal parrot
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special retirement/reactivation jobs would be peak

vivid ermine
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real

wild hornet
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Would go hand in hand with the challenge mode suggestion from a while back

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You could even go nuts with it and make some conversions require a special job that unlocks as soon as the time requirement is met

last lantern
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Convair CV-580, 727-100, 737-100, 737-500, MD-85, and super DC-8 series when- clueless

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Also, excellent suggestion.

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I approve of swag.

last lantern
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FINDING MARIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!- LETSGO

vivid ermine
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DC-9 superfamily and DC-8 family uv kits when!

fiery wedge
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man i love this suggestion

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lol

vivid ermine
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same

stoic berry
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Interesting idea, though why exactly does it fly to a factory, rather than the airline's home base?

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don't mean this as a gotcha moment or anything, I'm not very well versed in how reactivation flights work

royal ember
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i would assume it's because a plane moving from a scrapyard is probably bare bones and airline-specific manufacturing requirements such as paint, interior, etc. would have to be done by the factory shipping out planes to airlines

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thats my guess though

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so like factory buys old plane from scrapyard for reactivation, modifies it for an airline, and then ships plane out to airline's hub

harsh cape
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it probably isn't directly from scrapyard to home base or factory, but a maintenance facility
obviously you can just slap a maintenance facility next to a factory to make things simpler

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kinda like Manila being a maintenance facility for A380s but obviously not a factory

wild hornet
# stoic berry Interesting idea, though why exactly does it fly to a factory, rather than the a...

It would need a heavy maintenance check before being delivered, in addition to any interior changes or fixes.

The scrapyards often only get the planes bare minimum airworthy after being mothballed, and then fly them to an MRO for actual maintenance work.

Best recent example is Globals’ A380, which was reactivated from the Mojave then flew to a UK MRO a with its gear down for the heavy maintenance work on its gear, then flew to a different MRO for interior work.

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Very very rarely can a plane be taken from the boneyard to an airline, and in those cases it’s usually like COVID or a sudden reactivation shortly after being mothballed

plain basalt
coarse wolf
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ithink Anhedral has maintenance hangar

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but the lag ;dead

coarse wolf
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tenang has some hangars but idk what they are

wet steeple
coarse wolf
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oh yeah

wet steeple
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Then this job can be added to it and planes can be flown to merlani

coarse wolf
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it can be like the license jobs where you have to stop at airports

wet steeple
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There canonically is a company there that does cargo conversions to airliners so i assume refurbishment is also on the agenda

coarse wolf
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Mojave to maintenance hangar to airline hub

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could be a high paying job Shrug

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might take around the time surveilance takes and maybe almost same payout so that those who dislike military jobs and are commercial mains can also grind wp somehow

wet steeple
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Esp since job chains can take hours to become profitable

vocal parrot
coarse wolf