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The Apollinan Government has announced that plans for an Intenational Airport in Apollina are to go ahead. At first there will be only one terminal containing thrirty gates, along with a food quarter. Along with this the Government is subsidising the building of a number of hotels around the site, this comes after 140 million dollars have been put into the tourist industry in Apollina City and the rest of the nation to prepare for the opening of this airport. This is a continuation of the Government plan to help stimulate the tourist industry and make it one of the main industries in Apollina. This project will cost an estimated 200 to 250 million dollars over four to five years. There is the potential for expansion depending upon demand and funding.

The Government is to open itself to bids from foreign airline companies that may wish to commit flights to our small island nation, each company may claim two gates, therefore there is space for 15 companies or more to run flights out of Apollina. We are creating space for hangers, refueling systems, engineering works etc for each of these; the cost will be factored in to any gate costs, if we cannot attract companies that want two gates, there will be space for the construction of more hangers. The gate rental costs for this first terminal are to be set at a minimal rate, it will be subsidised by the Government to stimulate growth and jobs. There will also be a small cargo terminal with its own hangers and the potential for eight major companies to work out of there, there is space for two others, however this will be taken up by Apollinan companies/Government services.

Gate rental - $7,500 per year
Cargo space rental - $8,000 per year

We will state to prospective tourist airlines that Appolina has extensive beaches, waterfront, interesting architecture, historical sites and new resorts are under construction to coincide with the opening of the airport. This will be a truly historic day for Apollina and our people.

Senator Thesos
Trade Minister of Apollina

NB - now able to lease up to five gates, more can be negotiated if desired.

Gates
1-1 - Nansai Airways (Nansai City)
1-2 - Nansai Airways (Nansai City)
1-3 - Air NaiCoMo (Nansai City)
1-4 - Lufthansa International Airlines (The Great Sixth Reich)
1-5 - Lufthansa International Airlines (The Great Sixth Reich)
1-6 - Southwest Airlines (The Great Sixth Reich)
1-7 - Tyrador International Transport and Tyrador Airlines (Tyrador)
1-8 - PhoenixiAir (PXA) (Phoenixius)
1-9 - PhoenixiAir (PXA) (Phoenixius)
1-10 - Samalot Krasnovar (Krasnovaria)
1-11 - Trans World Airlines
1-12 - Trans World Airlines
1-13 - Colonial Airways (Democratic Colonies)
1-14 - Colonial Airways (Democratic Colonies)
1-15 - AeroPacitalia (Pacitalia)
1-16 - AeroPacitalia (Pacitalia)
1-17 - AeroPacitalia (Pacitalia)
1-18 - Virgin Pacific (Pacitalia)
1-19 - Virgin Pacific (Pacitalia)
1-20 - Air Rheinland International (Deutsch - Rheinland)
1-21 - Air Rheinland International (Deutsch - Rheinland)
1-22
1-23
1-24
1-25 - StaR Airways (SR)
1-26 - StaR Airways (SR)
1-27 - TranSovietAir (Caldaron)
1-28 - TranSovietAir (Caldaron)
1-29 - Air Celtayoshi (Celtayoshi)
1-30 - Air Celtayoshi (Celtayoshi)

Cargo
1 - Nansai Airways (Nansai City)
2 - Lufthansa Cargo (The Great Sixth Reich)
3 - AeroPacitalia (Pacitalia)
4 - Air Rheinland International (Deutsch - Rheinland)
5 - Virgin Pacific (Pacitalia)
6 - RapidTrans Airways (SR)
7
8 - PhoenixiAir (PXA) (Phoenixius)
9 - Apollinan Cargo
10 - Apollinan Cargo

[OOC – sorry for stealing this idea from Grand Sixth Reich et al but I liked it! Plus it means I can grow my GDP and economy.]

B-u-m-p

Two Nansai City airliners would like to lease 1-1 and 1-2. 1-1 will be held by Nansai Airways and 1-2 will be held by Air NaiCoMo.

Nansai Airways would also like to lease a spot in Cargo gate 1.

Money will be wired from their respective banks.

When Nansai City's new international hub is completed, please contact the Republic of Nansai to reserve a place.

Two Gates for Lufthansa International Airlines, $15,000 per year.
One Gate for Southwest Airlines, $7,500 per year.
One cargo space for Lufthansa Cargo, $8,000 per year.

PhoenixiAir (PXA) would like to rent gates 1-8, and 1-9 plus cargo gate 8.

Samalot Krasnovar, the national carrier of the People's Republic of Krasnovaria, would like to rent gate 1-10. Thank you.

Colonial Airways would like to rent two gates for an annual fee of $15,000.

We thank all that have been in contact so promptly. There have been more funds made available to extend the projected hanger space. We extend the invitation to all airlines to make Apollina a place to land.

Senator Thesos
Trade Minister of Apollina

--Official Communique from Air Rheinland International--
Air Rheinland would like to offer regular flights from Deutsch - Rheinland to Apollina and vice versa on a daily basis. So we want to purchase gates 1-20 and 1-21. Also, we'd like to have Cargo-4. The money will be wired as soon as you confirm.
Thank you for your consideration.

Ferdinand Hansa
CEO; Air Rheinland International

Tyrador would be intrested in gate 1-7, to be shared by our two main airlines, Tyrador International Transport (TIT) and Tyrador Airlines (T&A)

I would like to purchase 1-26 through 1-30, and three cargo holds. Could this be arranged? My airline is LSAutoAire.

LSAutoAire,

As made clear the limit of gates available is three and one at the cargo terminal. Unfortunatly we cannot offer you the extra gates that you wish for until opening, if space cannot be filled then we will seriously consider leasing you the space you have requested. For now we can offer one cargo gate, and commercial gates 1-28, 1-29 and 1-30. If this is unacceptable then we apologise.

Senator Thesos
Trade Minister of Apollina

The rest of the contracts are confirmed.

Bumpity bump!

Air NaiCoMo would like to switch it's lease to gate 1-3.

Nansai Airways would like to lease a second spot at gate 1-2.

Money will be wired to you upon confirmation.

TranSovietAir (TSA) of the Caldaron Soviet Union would like to lease 1-27 and 1-28.

I assume the gates are sufficient to the task of accommodating the TSA's Arkon 453s? (Think 747 stretch)

Trans World Airlines would like to rent Gates 1-11 and 1-12.


Trans World Airlines
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These contracts are now all confirmed.

And our runways and gates will certainly be up to the task of accomodating your Arkon 453s.

StaR Airways would like to rent 1-25 and 1-26. Additionally, we would like Cargo 6 for RapidTrans Airways.
Money wired upon confirmation of contract.

Confirmed. Thank you. (undercover BUMP)

I feel another BUMP coming on

Excellent. :)

BUMP (again)

Evil Woody Airlines is interested in establishing a hub in Apollina. To do this, we would like to construct a second 18-gate terminal at your airport.

The government of Evil Woody Thoughts will finance half of the construction costs and Evil Woody Airlines will finance the other half of construction costs. There is no cost to Apollina to build the new terminal whatsoever.

We further offer $8000 USD per quarter per gate in rent, or $144,000 total per quarter, $576,000 per year. Furthermore, we offer $15 per arriving seat in landing right fees. For example, one 777 arrival with 260 seats would amount to $3,900.

Evil Woody Airlines further requests the right of cabotage. This would entail the right to operate domestically within Apollina (when Apollina builds more airports), as well as the right to route international connections through Apollina. This will result in more passenger volume and landing right fees, as we will be able to profitably schedule more flights this way.

We appreciate your consideration.

CEO Chris Woodard III
Evil Woody Airlines

OOC: Don't forget to name the airport! Also, customarily airports have a three-letter abbreviation; you will need to assign yours one. You can go to http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/airport_code.htm to check against RL conflicts if you care about such things.

Chris Woodard III,

This is an interesting offer, however we are rather concerned about granting any company the right of cabotage. We are concered about staking so much on one company and it will pretty much strangle the prospect of a national airline of Apollina being set up, if either the Government, or a wealthy citizen wished to. In the short term the money is appealing, however we are wary of setting up any sort of monopoly in any private field on which much of our economy will potentially hang (ie. the tourist industry). Therefore we must respectfully decline your most generous offer; we do however offer gates for lease on the terminal that is currently under construction.

Senator Thesos
Trade Minister of Apollina


OOC - I will name it and give out the code at the official opening as I have not totally decided on it yet.

B_u_m_p

Chris Woodard III,

This is an interesting offer, however we are rather concerned about granting any company the right of cabotage. We are concered about staking so much on one company and it will pretty much strangle the prospect of a national airline of Apollina being set up, if either the Government, or a wealthy citizen wished to. In the short term the money is appealing, however we are wary of setting up any sort of monopoly in any private field on which much of our economy will potentially hang (ie. the tourist industry). Therefore we must respectfully decline your most generous offer; we do however offer gates for lease on the terminal that is currently under construction.

Senator Thesos
Trade Minister of Apollina


Very well, we shall revise our offer.

We still request permission to build the second terminal, as your airport will probably need to expand a few years after it opens anyway. However, we accept your decision not to grant us cabotage, and as such, we will only use four gates. The other fourteen will be available for your national airline to use.

As cabotage is not possible, would a code-sharing agreement with your national airline, when it is formed, be suitable instead? Such an agreement would result in increased business for both airlines.

CEO Chris Woodard III
Evil Woody Airlines

Chris Woodard III,

This offer is more agreeable to us, however we are unsure that another large terminal is needed due to the fact that we still have many gates that are yet to be leased. Also fourteen gates seems like a lot for such a small nation as ours, Government funds are not up to setting up a new company, however we may be willing to subsidise a private venture from one of our citizens. It is unlikely that a newly set up, small, company will be able to fill fourteen gates. However if you are willing to build this terminal and have gates idle for a number of years then we accept your proposal, however we are wary that this could turn into a waste of money, we do not think a mainly empty terminal will look very good to potential tourists. We remind you that gates are still available in the terminal being constructed.

Senator Thesos
Trade Minister of Apollina

Please note, we have now changed the policy regarding the restriction on the number of gates one nation, or companies of that nation, can lease. It is now up to five, and more than this can be negotiated if desired.

Senator Thesos
Trade Minister of Apollina

AeroPacitalia would like to rent Gates 1-15 to 1-17 and Cargo Terminal 3.
Total - $30,500

Virgin Pacific would like to rent Gates 1-18 and 1-19 and Cargo Terminal 5.
Total - $23,000

Money wired upon confirmation.

This is confirmed.

May we also ask that you look into buying gates at our two major airports if you haven't already.

Air Celtayoshi will rent any two passenger gates for $15000 provided they are beside each other.


Air Celtayoshi is also interested in setting up a national airline company for Apollina. We would be willing to provide financial backing from our considerable resources, and a basic start up would take 5 gates, running international flights around your current region and flights to many major nations. After a period of 5 years the airline company will be offered to your government for a reasonable price depending on profit and value of the company, where you can then take it and form it into a national company under your control. All that we ask is that landing charges (gate rent) be halved for this company.

Neil Bofers
Air Celtayoshi International Affairs Department

Chris Woodard III,

This offer is more agreeable to us, however we are unsure that another large terminal is needed due to the fact that we still have many gates that are yet to be leased. Also fourteen gates seems like a lot for such a small nation as ours, Government funds are not up to setting up a new company, however we may be willing to subsidise a private venture from one of our citizens. It is unlikely that a newly set up, small, company will be able to fill fourteen gates. However if you are willing to build this terminal and have gates idle for a number of years then we accept your proposal, however we are wary that this could turn into a waste of money, we do not think a mainly empty terminal will look very good to potential tourists. We remind you that gates are still available in the terminal being constructed.

Senator Thesos
Trade Minister of Apollina

Actually, it appears that with Pacitalia's lease offer, there is no longer a contiguous bloc of four gates. However, we will scale down the second terminal to twelve gates unless other airlines manage to outstrip the available supply of gates, in which case we will keep the original eighteen-gate configuration. As you have recently increased the maximum number of gates an airline may have without special negotiations, we feel that is a realistic possibility.

CEO Chris Woodard III
Evil Woody Airlines

Chris Woodard III,

With renewed interest in Apollina's project we feel that what you now propose is most certainly possible. We apologise for putting up original resistance. Plus, another terminal that can be shared by your company and an Apollinan airline is now more of a possibility due to an outside offer of funding to help set up a national airline. Perhaps threeway talks could be set up to discuss an arrangement, we will contact those who have made this offer. Therefore we give your Government and company the go ahead to build this second terminal.

Senator Thesos
Trade Minister of Apollina

Apollina: Here is the link to my airport topic.

http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=367568

Neil Bofers,

This is a very interesting proposition to us, however we also have had contact made from another comapany interested in working with us. Therefore we would like to set up a threeway meeting between your company, the Apollinan Trade Office and the other company we are in contact with. Also, your gates are confirmed in the original terminal.

Senator Thesos
Trade Minister of Apollina

May we also ask that you look into buying gates at our two major airports if you haven't already.

We assure you we will, once a national airline comes into being.

Senator Thesos,

Air Celtayoshi will enter into threeway talks with the Apollinan Trade Office and third party. We are delighted to see that you have shown interest in our venture and will try to form a deal. We await further contact from this third party with regards to us forming a Apollinan National Airline.

If any Apollina Air Crafts cross over Coreys Land they will be shot down.

Chris Woodard III,

With renewed interest in Apollina's project we feel that what you now propose is most certainly possible. We apologise for putting up original resistance. Plus, another terminal that can be shared by your company and an Apollinan airline is now more of a possibility due to an outside offer of funding to help set up a national airline. Perhaps threeway talks could be set up to discuss an arrangement, we will contact those who have made this offer. Therefore we give your Government and company the go ahead to build this second terminal.

Senator Thesos
Trade Minister of Apollina

Do you require twelve gates or eighteen?

CEO Chris Woodard III
Evil Woody Airlines

It seems that eighteen gates would now be possible due to the potential funding offered to set up a national airline. Please respond as soon as possible with regard to the three way talks on the future of any airline and what form the arrangement will take as we know that you wish to code share.

Senator Thesos
Trade Minister of Apollina

It seems that eighteen gates would now be possible due to the potential funding offered to set up a national airline. Please respond as soon as possible with regard to the three way talks on the future of any airline and what form the arrangement will take as we know that you wish to code share.

Senator Thesos
Trade Minister of Apollina

We wish to code-share along the lines of this RL example (ooc: it's late and I need to go to bed):

http://www.qantasusa.com/travelTips/connectingFlights

We will arrange for the 18-gate terminal then. Also, sharing the same terminal will make life a little easier for passengers on both our airlines ;). We suspect that there will be a shortage of construction workers within your nation, and we will use local workers when possible, but if none can be found, we will find construction workers in Evil Woody Thoughts who are willing to do the work. All employees that we hire, both construction workers and permanent airline employees, will be treated in accordance with Evil Woody Thoughts labor law, which resembles that of the RL United States, but there is no Taft-Hartley act and the minimum wage is quite a bit higher. We were waiting for more information on the three-way talks but are interested. (ooc: I think Celtayoshi is the "third party," but I'm not sure and request clarification.)

EDIT: We propose to build the second terminal with our funds, as well as with subsidies provided by the government of Evil Woody Thoughts. This subsidy has been increased from 50% to 80% because we will be using four gates instead of the original proposal of using the entire terminal. Even though we are building the terminal, we will still pay the rent for our four gates as they will be built on your soil, after all. The remaining fourteen gates can be used in whatever manner airport management sees fit.

We are building the new terminal as our gift to the people of Apollina and its national airline.

CEO Chris Woodard III
Evil Woody Airlines

OOC - I will set up a new thread later on, for the meeting.

IC

Evil Woody Airlines and Air Celtayoshi,

The Trade Office of Apollina proposes the talks between Air Celtayoshi, Evil Woody Airlines and the Apollinan Government take place in the convention section of our Grand Duke's Complex. Accomodation will, of course, be provided for those in attendence. On the agenda will be the arrangments to set up a national airline, the proposed code sharing and the potential range of destinations any national airline will be able to fly to.

Senator Thesos
Trade Minister of Apollina

We wish to code-share along the lines of this RL example (ooc: it's late and I need to go to bed):

OOC: Whad ya mean late, its 11.30am here :P Damned time zones.


IC:

Senator Thesos,

I will fly to your convention centre within the day, I will bring with me our current research portfolio on possible routes, and will consider code sharing, however, preference must be given to the parent airline (Air Celtayoshi) to protect oru own business interests. But we are sure a deal can be struck.

Neil Bofers
Air Celtayoshi International Affairs Department

OOC: I won't be on again after lunch today until tomorrow, so i shall call thsi travelling time :)

OOC - The three way talks are here (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=7378922#post7378922)

And a BUMP for good measure - still three gates to be filled!

BUMP to fill up my terminal

I would like to rent one gate and one storage space if possible.

Thank you.

I would like to rent one gate and one storage space if possible.

Thank you.

Certainly. Do you have a national airline or shall i just lease it to "Koornacht"?

Maple Airlines and Air Kelssek would both like to rent one gate each.

Maple will be flying one daily flight from Kirkenes and one from Neorvins using Airbus A321s, and Air Kelssek will be flying two daily from both Saint-Remy and Neorvins using CE530s (~180 pax, see my export storefront).

Phoenix International SuperSonic Airlines (PISS AIR) would like to lease gate 1-24

OOC: 'Nice' accronym TPM!

Apollina apologises to both Kelssek and The Phoenix Milita but the final gates have now been leased out and the airport opened here (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=371017). Again, we apologise.