Hi all,
How do passenger terminals work and how do you get profit from them?
Thanks,
Costas
You build the terminals yourself, choosing how "fancy" you want them. You can go up to 5 star rating. You can also include a jetway, which will all help your 'Terminals' in your flight detail report.
When you have a building, you have to assign the slots, either to yourself or on a rental basis. When you use them for yourself, you need to go through your flights that originate from that particular airport and choose which ones will get to use that terminal. There are limits on how many passengers can use the terminal... which you pick when you first build the building. An easy way to check and see how many possible passengers you have originating at that airport can be found in the Offices tab. It will list the maximum amount flying out of that airport for one week.
Your other option is to "rent" out the slots. Normally, you are paying $11 per passenger for ground handling. That payment goes to AS. The money disappears, no longer in the market. You can decide if you want to charge anywhere from like $7.70 up to $13 or so, I think (it has been a while since I played around with them). If someone wants to rent that space, they'll try and sign a contract with you (kinda like interlining). The money then goes to you, instead of AS. So if you have a 2,000 passenger terminal (which is the highest you can get at the lowest cost), and you charge the same $11 per passenger, you'll make $22,000 that week from that terminal.
Pretty small amount when the buildings will cost millions. Not a particularly good investment for a new company. As stated elsewhere, they are a way to "burn" money when airlines get too large.
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When you have a building, you have to assign the slots, either to yourself or on a rental basis. When you use them for yourself, you need to go through your flights that originate from that particular airport and choose which ones will get to use that terminal. There are limits on how many passengers can use the terminal... which you pick when you first build the building. An easy way to check and see how many possible passengers you have originating at that airport can be found in the Offices tab. It will list the maximum amount flying out of that airport for one week.
Thank you for your helpful answer.
Any idea how i assign slots to my flights???
The easiest way is in the Route Management screen. For example, if you had a building in JFK and wanted to assign flights to LHR, you would go to the JFK -> LHR Route Management page.
Where it lists your flights on that route, there's a small magnifying glass on the right hand side of where the prices are listed. Click on that.
It will bring up a screen that lists the information on that particular flight. At the bottom right, where you can adjust Service Profiles and such, there is an option for Service Contact - Passenger Handling. Choose the building from the drop down menu below that, save the settings, and it's done.
I'm not sure if it requires the three day waiting period like other things, such as price and the like.
The easiest way is in the Route Management screen. For example, if you had a building in JFK and wanted to assign flights to LHR, you would go to the JFK -> LHR Route Management page.
Where it lists your flights on that route, there's a small magnifying glass on the right hand side of where the prices are listed. Click on that.
It will bring up a screen that lists the information on that particular flight. At the bottom right, where you can adjust Service Profiles and such, there is an option for Service Contact - Passenger Handling. Choose the building from the drop down menu below that, save the settings, and it's done.
I'm not sure if it requires the three day waiting period like other things, such as price and the like.
Many thanks. Got it!!!
do terminal buidings incur a maintenance fee?
Nope, but staff ...
And depreciation on buildings will also making you like having additional expenses too.
But that are no real expenses ... it's "only" a depreciation with no impact to your bank account.
But will the passenger who were moved to the new terminal still interline with other flights in the default terminal?
Yes why shouldn't they?
Yes why shouldn't they?
Because they feel so comfortable in this one terminal, that they just don’t want to leave it for another. 
I hope you are not annoyed if we do not take this as feature request ;)
Perhaps when we go to variable turn arounds etc, same terminal transfers have a reduced MCT (excluding terminal 1).
Of course we have this in mind. This is getting interesting to all the CEOs out there to observe the connections if an interlining partner is changing the terminal ;)