Airports

[tikigod311]

I would bet that there will be numerous commercial airports.

The LA area has LAX and...

 

LA/Ontario International Airport, owned by the city of Los Angeles; serves the Inland Empire.

Bob Hope Airport, formerly known as Burbank Airport; serves the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys

Long Beach Airport, serves the Long Beach/Harbor area

John Wayne Airport of Orange County

 

All the above have regularly scheduled commercial flights.

 

If there is a Palms Springs area in the game, there may be one there as well as there is a commercial airport in real life.

[V8 Engine]

Something like having one in the desert was pretty cool so i hope they do that

[Rjeev142]

It would be cool if they included an airstrip similar to verdant meadows as an Easter egg.

[Kifflom112]

It would be cool if they included an airstrip similar to verdant meadows as an Easter egg.

Yeah I would love that. And put in a huge hanger to save planes. Possibly place a safehouse or save spot there,too?

[Tomm94]

With the map being supposedly as big as it is, surely Rockstar would consider 3 main airports, and a few small airstrips. It only makes sense if they do.

 

[AbductiveReasoning]

What's the point in taking off from one airport to land at another one a mile down the road, blame R* for their sheer laziness and lackluster thought process when designing the game, they chose not to include another city because they couldn't be bothered which means there will only be one one major airport and some dusty barren landing strips out in the wilderness.

[Wilko007]

What's the point in taking off from one airport to land at another one a mile down the road, blame R* for their sheer laziness and lackluster thought process when designing the game, they chose not to include another city because they couldn't be bothered which means there will only be one one major airport and some dusty barren landing strips out in the wilderness.

This is my point

 

If there is only the LAX (LSX?) as a large Airport (not airstrip), i will be thoughroughly disappointed, there's no logistical point to the airport otherwise to take passenger jets to other places off-map, if that's the case, i will be sorely disappointed

 

What gives me hope however, is they made this GTA so big, pretty much for planes, which gives me the idea that there must be at least one more commercial airport.

[Supercrammer]

"Rockstar has already gone on record and said Grand Theft Auto V will be around five times bigger than its predecessor, and what’s visible from the chopper is about three-and-a-half times bigger than the sprawling deserts of Red Dead Redemption."

 

Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/11/12/gra...-world-rulebook

 

With this info, if its 5 times bigger than IV, there has to be at least one more main airport but NOT as big or major as LSX. Runways and airstrips will probably be scattered around, one in Grapeseed, the desert, some other runways, military base, and then the minor airport on the completely opposite side of the map farthest away as possible from LSX.

[Durden]

Even if LAX was the only airport in the game (which it isn't, as there are at least a few others in the countryside), I don't see how it would be useless. Most of you are saying how much it will suck to only have 1 airport and that you will be dissapointed with R*. Are you using your brains?

 

Parachutes.

 

That's the key factor that most of you are forgetting.

 

 

Whenever you need to land, not only can you just be creative and makeshift the road into an airstrip, but you can just jump out and parachute to your destination. This means that you must drive to the airport whenever you need to get somewhere quickly, and the planes act as a 1-time disposable use. I mean even if there were multiple airstrips in the city, why would you want/need them? Just drive or take a taxi to the LAX airport.

 

 

Now let's be fools here and say my point hasn't already been proven. On top of all that, remember the countryside airstrips. So now not only are you going to get these disposable transportations (planes) from LAX, but also numerous places throughout the desert in such a fashion that you are never too far from an airport.

 

I think the problem here is that people are thinking of planes as re-usable vehicles, when in reality they are meant to be disposable. Why fly a plane from airport A to airport B, and then having to exit the plane and drive to destination C which is midway between the two airports? Either way you are losing your plane, so parachutes give you the oppertunities to get to places much quicker.

 

/factual rant

/thread

[Showstopper 26]

There has to be at least 2.

[scottishmanGTA]

i would love to co-pilot a plane , but not fly it

[gatinhot]

I still think there is something hiding behind those mountains,... I highly doubt rock star would go through all this plane talk and give us one airport... Rock star likes keeping some things a surprise that's why you don't see any gameplay until the game is out.. It ain't like other games.. Game play is only seen when it's leaked a few days before release.. Rock star like hiding good stuff and keep it quite soo word of mouth when the game is out does the selling for them.. But anyway yh expect about 2 main ones and 1 private desert and then an army base for military planes..

[I<3GTAV]

Even if LAX was the only airport in the game (which it isn't, as there are at least a few others in the countryside), I don't see how it would be useless. Most of you are saying how much it will suck to only have 1 airport and that you will be dissapointed with R*. Are you using your brains?

 

Parachutes.

 

That's the key factor that most of you are forgetting.

 

 

Whenever you need to land, not only can you just be creative and makeshift the road into an airstrip, but you can just jump out and parachute to your destination. This means that you must drive to the airport whenever you need to get somewhere quickly, and the planes act as a 1-time disposable use. I mean even if there were multiple airstrips in the city, why would you want/need them? Just drive or take a taxi to the LAX airport.

 

 

Now let's be fools here and say my point hasn't already been proven. On top of all that, remember the countryside airstrips. So now not only are you going to get these disposable transportations (planes) from LAX, but also numerous places throughout the desert in such a fashion that you are never too far from an airport.

 

I think the problem here is that people are thinking of planes as re-usable vehicles, when in reality they are meant to be disposable. Why fly a plane from airport A to airport B, and then having to exit the plane and drive to destination C which is midway between the two airports? Either way you are losing your plane, so parachutes give you the oppertunities to get to places much quicker.

 

/factual rant

/thread

I fully agree.

[thestoneman420]

Even if LAX was the only airport in the game (which it isn't, as there are at least a few others in the countryside), I don't see how it would be useless. Most of you are saying how much it will suck to only have 1 airport and that you will be dissapointed with R*. Are you using your brains?

 

Parachutes.

 

That's the key factor that most of you are forgetting.

 

 

Whenever you need to land, not only can you just be creative and makeshift the road into an airstrip, but you can just jump out and parachute to your destination. This means that you must drive to the airport whenever you need to get somewhere quickly, and the planes act as a 1-time disposable use. I mean even if there were multiple airstrips in the city, why would you want/need them? Just drive or take a taxi to the LAX airport.

 

 

Now let's be fools here and say my point hasn't already been proven. On top of all that, remember the countryside airstrips. So now not only are you going to get these disposable transportations (planes) from LAX, but also numerous places throughout the desert in such a fashion that you are never too far from an airport.

 

I think the problem here is that people are thinking of planes as re-usable vehicles, when in reality they are meant to be disposable. Why fly a plane from airport A to airport B, and then having to exit the plane and drive to destination C which is midway between the two airports? Either way you are losing your plane, so parachutes give you the oppertunities to get to places much quicker.

 

/factual rant

/thread

While I agree with that whole rant, I think people are more concerned about the NPC planes, mainly the passenger jets. Once they take-off, where are they going?

 

I for one, don't give a damn.

[Durden]

Even if LAX was the only airport in the game (which it isn't, as there are at least a few others in the countryside), I don't see how it would be useless. Most of you are saying how much it will suck to only have 1 airport and that you will be dissapointed with R*. Are you using your brains?

 

Parachutes.

 

That's the key factor that most of you are forgetting.

 

 

Whenever you need to land, not only can you just be creative and makeshift the road into an airstrip, but you can just jump out and parachute to your destination. This means that you must drive to the airport whenever you need to get somewhere quickly, and the planes act as a 1-time disposable use. I mean even if there were multiple airstrips in the city, why would you want/need them? Just drive or take a taxi to the LAX airport.

 

 

Now let's be fools here and say my point hasn't already been proven. On top of all that, remember the countryside airstrips. So now not only are you going to get these disposable transportations (planes) from LAX, but also numerous places throughout the desert in such a fashion that you are never too far from an airport.

 

I think the problem here is that people are thinking of planes as re-usable vehicles, when in reality they are meant to be disposable. Why fly a plane from airport A to airport B, and then having to exit the plane and drive to destination C which is midway between the two airports? Either way you are losing your plane, so parachutes give you the oppertunities to get to places much quicker.

 

/factual rant

/thread

While I agree with that whole rant, I think people are more concerned about the NPC planes, mainly the passenger jets. Once they take-off, where are they going?

 

I for one, don't give a damn.

So that's the issue?

 

...

 

Well that's also a pretty stupid. They can just leave the map, supposedly going to San Fierro or Las Venturas or something. Would be a nice easter egg to confirm that those 2 cities still exist in the HD era. Hell, they could even invent more crazy names for the planes' supposed locations, regardless of whether or not they actually use them as future GTA cities.

[YoungChrist]

Even if LAX was the only airport in the game (which it isn't, as there are at least a few others in the countryside), I don't see how it would be useless. Most of you are saying how much it will suck to only have 1 airport and that you will be dissapointed with R*. Are you using your brains?

 

Parachutes.

 

That's the key factor that most of you are forgetting.

 

 

Whenever you need to land, not only can you just be creative and makeshift the road into an airstrip, but you can just jump out and parachute to your destination. This means that you must drive to the airport whenever you need to get somewhere quickly, and the planes act as a 1-time disposable use. I mean even if there were multiple airstrips in the city, why would you want/need them? Just drive or take a taxi to the LAX airport.

 

 

Now let's be fools here and say my point hasn't already been proven. On top of all that, remember the countryside airstrips. So now not only are you going to get these disposable transportations (planes) from LAX, but also numerous places throughout the desert in such a fashion that you are never too far from an airport.

 

I think the problem here is that people are thinking of planes as re-usable vehicles, when in reality they are meant to be disposable. Why fly a plane from airport A to airport B, and then having to exit the plane and drive to destination C which is midway between the two airports? Either way you are losing your plane, so parachutes give you the oppertunities to get to places much quicker.

 

/factual rant

/thread

I think parachutes is pretty much a given. The point is people like the play the game normally as if they were just another pedestrian sometimes and only commit crimes when it is appropriate. And sometimes they dont care and just jump out of the plane as it flys off into the distance and blows up while they parachute down safely.

[Durden]

Even if LAX was the only airport in the game (which it isn't, as there are at least a few others in the countryside), I don't see how it would be useless. Most of you are saying how much it will suck to only have 1 airport and that you will be dissapointed with R*. Are you using your brains?

 

Parachutes.

 

That's the key factor that most of you are forgetting.

 

 

Whenever you need to land, not only can you just be creative and makeshift the road into an airstrip, but you can just jump out and parachute to your destination. This means that you must drive to the airport whenever you need to get somewhere quickly, and the planes act as a 1-time disposable use. I mean even if there were multiple airstrips in the city, why would you want/need them? Just drive or take a taxi to the LAX airport.

 

 

Now let's be fools here and say my point hasn't already been proven. On top of all that, remember the countryside airstrips. So now not only are you going to get these disposable transportations (planes) from LAX, but also numerous places throughout the desert in such a fashion that you are never too far from an airport.

 

I think the problem here is that people are thinking of planes as re-usable vehicles, when in reality they are meant to be disposable. Why fly a plane from airport A to airport B, and then having to exit the plane and drive to destination C which is midway between the two airports? Either way you are losing your plane, so parachutes give you the oppertunities to get to places much quicker.

 

/factual rant

/thread

I think parachutes is pretty much a given. The point is people like the play the game normally as if they were just another pedestrian sometimes and only commit crimes when it is appropriate. And sometimes they dont care and just jump out of the plane as it flys off into the distance and blows up while they parachute down safely.

Of course parachutes are confirmed, if that's what you were inferencing from my post.

 

As for players wanting to act like pedestrians, can't they do that with one airport? I mean you don't need an airport every few miles, one airport is really all you will need in GTAV to act like a normal pedestrian. You can use the runways to fly to different runways, and from there you can drive. I don't see the issue with that.

[YoungChrist]

Even if LAX was the only airport in the game (which it isn't, as there are at least a few others in the countryside), I don't see how it would be useless. Most of you are saying how much it will suck to only have 1 airport and that you will be dissapointed with R*. Are you using your brains?

 

Parachutes.

 

That's the key factor that most of you are forgetting.

 

 

Whenever you need to land, not only can you just be creative and makeshift the road into an airstrip, but you can just jump out and parachute to your destination. This means that you must drive to the airport whenever you need to get somewhere quickly, and the planes act as a 1-time disposable use. I mean even if there were multiple airstrips in the city, why would you want/need them? Just drive or take a taxi to the LAX airport.

 

 

Now let's be fools here and say my point hasn't already been proven. On top of all that, remember the countryside airstrips. So now not only are you going to get these disposable transportations (planes) from LAX, but also numerous places throughout the desert in such a fashion that you are never too far from an airport.

 

I think the problem here is that people are thinking of planes as re-usable vehicles, when in reality they are meant to be disposable. Why fly a plane from airport A to airport B, and then having to exit the plane and drive to destination C which is midway between the two airports? Either way you are losing your plane, so parachutes give you the oppertunities to get to places much quicker.

 

/factual rant

/thread

I think parachutes is pretty much a given. The point is people like the play the game normally as if they were just another pedestrian sometimes and only commit crimes when it is appropriate. And sometimes they dont care and just jump out of the plane as it flys off into the distance and blows up while they parachute down safely.

Of course parachutes are confirmed, if that's what you were inferencing from my post.

 

As for players wanting to act like pedestrians, can't they do that with one airport? I mean you don't need an airport every few miles, one airport is really all you will need in GTAV to act like a normal pedestrian. You can use the runways to fly to different runways, and from there you can drive. I don't see the issue with that.

No thats silly. Whats the point of flying a plane just to land in the same airport?

[Durden]

Even if LAX was the only airport in the game (which it isn't, as there are at least a few others in the countryside), I don't see how it would be useless. Most of you are saying how much it will suck to only have 1 airport and that you will be dissapointed with R*. Are you using your brains?

 

Parachutes.

 

That's the key factor that most of you are forgetting.

 

 

Whenever you need to land, not only can you just be creative and makeshift the road into an airstrip, but you can just jump out and parachute to your destination. This means that you must drive to the airport whenever you need to get somewhere quickly, and the planes act as a 1-time disposable use. I mean even if there were multiple airstrips in the city, why would you want/need them? Just drive or take a taxi to the LAX airport.

 

 

Now let's be fools here and say my point hasn't already been proven. On top of all that, remember the countryside airstrips. So now not only are you going to get these disposable transportations (planes) from LAX, but also numerous places throughout the desert in such a fashion that you are never too far from an airport.

 

I think the problem here is that people are thinking of planes as re-usable vehicles, when in reality they are meant to be disposable. Why fly a plane from airport A to airport B, and then having to exit the plane and drive to destination C which is midway between the two airports? Either way you are losing your plane, so parachutes give you the oppertunities to get to places much quicker.

 

/factual rant

/thread

I think parachutes is pretty much a given. The point is people like the play the game normally as if they were just another pedestrian sometimes and only commit crimes when it is appropriate. And sometimes they dont care and just jump out of the plane as it flys off into the distance and blows up while they parachute down safely.

Of course parachutes are confirmed, if that's what you were inferencing from my post.

 

As for players wanting to act like pedestrians, can't they do that with one airport? I mean you don't need an airport every few miles, one airport is really all you will need in GTAV to act like a normal pedestrian. You can use the runways to fly to different runways, and from there you can drive. I don't see the issue with that.

No thats silly. Whats the point of flying a plane just to land in the same airport?

There'll be multiple runways, of course, just one main airport is what I was meaning.

 

I reckon there'll be a big airport in LS, and then maybe an airstrip in the hills on the opposite side of LS or something. Its granted that we'll get several other airstrips in the deep wilderness area as well.

 

With these in mind, why do we need another airstrip in LS? The LAX should be for entering/exiting the city, then from there you can either drive to your destination or fly to another airstrip, respectively.

[YoungChrist]

Even if LAX was the only airport in the game (which it isn't, as there are at least a few others in the countryside), I don't see how it would be useless. Most of you are saying how much it will suck to only have 1 airport and that you will be dissapointed with R*. Are you using your brains?

 

Parachutes.

 

That's the key factor that most of you are forgetting.

 

 

Whenever you need to land, not only can you just be creative and makeshift the road into an airstrip, but you can just jump out and parachute to your destination. This means that you must drive to the airport whenever you need to get somewhere quickly, and the planes act as a 1-time disposable use. I mean even if there were multiple airstrips in the city, why would you want/need them? Just drive or take a taxi to the LAX airport.

 

 

Now let's be fools here and say my point hasn't already been proven. On top of all that, remember the countryside airstrips. So now not only are you going to get these disposable transportations (planes) from LAX, but also numerous places throughout the desert in such a fashion that you are never too far from an airport.

 

I think the problem here is that people are thinking of planes as re-usable vehicles, when in reality they are meant to be disposable. Why fly a plane from airport A to airport B, and then having to exit the plane and drive to destination C which is midway between the two airports? Either way you are losing your plane, so parachutes give you the oppertunities to get to places much quicker.

 

/factual rant

/thread

I think parachutes is pretty much a given. The point is people like the play the game normally as if they were just another pedestrian sometimes and only commit crimes when it is appropriate. And sometimes they dont care and just jump out of the plane as it flys off into the distance and blows up while they parachute down safely.

Of course parachutes are confirmed, if that's what you were inferencing from my post.

 

As for players wanting to act like pedestrians, can't they do that with one airport? I mean you don't need an airport every few miles, one airport is really all you will need in GTAV to act like a normal pedestrian. You can use the runways to fly to different runways, and from there you can drive. I don't see the issue with that.

No thats silly. Whats the point of flying a plane just to land in the same airport?

There'll be multiple runways, of course, just one main airport is what I was meaning.

 

I reckon there'll be a big airport in LS, and then maybe an airstrip in the hills on the opposite side of LS or something. Its granted that we'll get several other airstrips in the deep wilderness area as well.

 

With these in mind, why do we need another airstrip in LS? The LAX should be for entering/exiting the city, then from there you can either drive to your destination or fly to another airstrip, respectively.

Oh you mean in different places, yeah sure. That makes sense.

 

But yeah I said the same thing. Having two airports in LS would be silly. Its one city all it needs is one airport with several airstrips in that one airport. But yeah a few dirt road airstrips in the country side should suffice. But at the same time it may be a little lacklustre. Flying from city to city is cool. Flying from city to some dirt road in the middle of nowhere is less interesting. But Rockstar said theres just one city so I guess we just got to deal with it.

[Chukkles]

As we already know there are going to be planes in the game, meaning that there are airports.

 

My current confusion is that we only know about one main one, there's the airstrip in the desert as seen in trailer two, but the only other one is R*'s equivalent of LAX (LSX?)

 

Will there be another big airport? What's the point of taking off, if to only land at the same airport? Discuss.

Really who's going to land at an airport if at all.

 

Bail bail bail, watches fiery explosion from high up in the clouds.

[Ferocious Banger]

As we already know there are going to be planes in the game, meaning that there are airports.

 

My current confusion is that we only know about one main one, there's the airstrip in the desert as seen in trailer two, but the only other one is R*'s equivalent of LAX (LSX?)

 

Will there be another big airport? What's the point of taking off, if to only land at the same airport? Discuss.

Really who's going to land at an airport if at all.

 

Bail bail bail, watches fiery explosion from high up in the clouds.

Really, who's going to stop at red lights? Lets remove them too!

[Toshio_maxoS]

One city, one Airport.

Should be enough

 

[Racecarlock]

As we already know there are going to be planes in the game, meaning that there are airports.

 

My current confusion is that we only know about one main one, there's the airstrip in the desert as seen in trailer two, but the only other one is R*'s equivalent of LAX (LSX?)

 

Will there be another big airport? What's the point of taking off, if to only land at the same airport? Discuss.

It's fun to fly planes. There. There's your answer. Even so, I really doubt that the new LS has only one airport. Not when the combined areas are bigger than SA, RDR, and IV combined.

[Chukkles]

Man, I gonna land in the f*ckin street.

[NGC BemaR]

I dont know how this thread got to people talking about multiple airports in LS...but when I commented earlier in the thread I was refering to there being other smaller airports on the map not in the city of LS...if people really think that with the size of the map being what r* have stated that there will be one airport with a handful of dirt airstrips then prepare to be shocked...

 

There are actually a handful of people like myself who enjoy taking off taxiing to the gate and taking back off to the origin...( there was a server on GTA San Andreas specifically for people wanting to fly "properly" and nearly always busy )

 

I don't believe however that there will be another airport in LS (the city) but LA in real life is not just the city it includes many other smaller cities...these may or may not be spread around the map...

 

Although I consider myself one of the more serious pilots on GTA...i do enjoy bailing and parachuting down...me and my crew are going to use the cargoplane to the max!!!!! If its online...

[kadava]

Who said anything about landing? ditch that plane in mid air, you have a parachute.

[D3ADSH0T]

i would guess at there being 2 commercial airports and 1 military and probably 2 or 3 private strips like the one in the dersert

Yep,im hoping 4 the same

[Supacoupe]

I see at least two main commercial airports and one military with multiple out of the way airstrips. They had to justify planes in the first place, so that kind of eludes to the map being big enough to support at least two point A & B landing spots. I can't see them going from three main airports in SA to going out of this generation of gaming with only one or two landing spots.

 

There should be many places to land and if they are for real about interiors, we should have some awesome airport interiors. I wonder if R* will have their own take on the TSA? That should be funny.

[gmcb007]

I'd say we might see another airport equipped with a tarmac runway and a terminal. I'm not all that aware of Sol Cal geography, but isn't there multiple airports located in and around L.A?

 

I just hope this time around that there is AI controlled air traffic. The one thing I hated about SA's airports was how they were like ghost towns. An interior for LSX would be a massive bonus as well.

Edited January 29, 2013 by gmcb007