Current Situation / Problem
Subsidiary airlines operate under their own airline code but use liveries (or even actual planes) of their mother companies. These often new subsidiary airlines codes aren't mentioned in the often older xsb_aircraft.txt files. As a result, planes of the subsidiary airline are rendered with a random livery although probably a matching livery for the mother company would be available.
Suggested Solution
Provide a way to match subsidiary and mother company, similar to what happens to aircraft type codes in the related.txt file, just for airline codes, like
; Aer Lingus
EIN EUK
; Ryan Air
RYR RUK
Alternatives
Lots of fiddling right in the xsb_aircraft.txt file to add AIRLINE lines under each EIN model to also allow matching for EUK.
Benefits
Better livery matching for subsidiary airlines.
Current Situation / Problem Subsidiary airlines operate under their own airline code but use liveries (or even actual planes) of their mother companies. These often new subsidiary airlines codes aren't mentioned in the often older
xsb_aircraft.txtfiles. As a result, planes of the subsidiary airline are rendered with a random livery although probably a matching livery for the mother company would be available.Suggested Solution Provide a way to match subsidiary and mother company, similar to what happens to aircraft type codes in the
related.txtfile, just for airline codes, likeAlternatives Lots of fiddling right in the
xsb_aircraft.txtfile to addAIRLINElines under eachEINmodel to also allow matching forEUK.Benefits Better livery matching for subsidiary airlines.
Additional context Suggested in a forum post.