Hello everyone.
I have not bought the game yet, but I have been watching videos non-stop on youtube as I have been looking for a game like this to play. In fact, I recently asked about LGA as I thought it would be a fun airport for me to get into the game, so im glad to see it finally out... I'm a pilot at heart, but I always loved playing as an ATC in FSX hence why I am drawn to this game. I am an airline pilot who flies for Republic Airline. So I have flown into and out of LGA many times... Hopefully this info will help some.
Our operations at LGA include flights being operated for American Airlines, Delta Airlines AND United Airlines. We fly for all three, not just AA and DL at LGA. To complicate things, as it has been discussed in this thread, American and Delta use different terminals. Not only do we use different terminals, but both AA and DL flights arrive at two terminals each currently
We have specific gates that we operate out of for every carrier from every terminal. Unless the game uses actual gate numbers, here are the general piers we use.
Terminal A: These are the Delta Marine Air Terminal Gates. These gates are strictly used for Delta's "Delta Shuttle" flights between LGA-DCA and LGA-ORD. Republic is the only operating carrier for these two shuttle routes, so we are the sole occupant of the MAT. Sometimes they will tug some overflow aircraft here for the night, but there are never any operating flights that go into the MAT other than those two Delta shuttle destinations. Delta's shuttle flights to BOS use terminal C.
Terminal B: Concourse D and Concourse C are used by Republic for American Airlines. Concourse C is also used for our United flights into LGA.
Terminal C: Gates C35 thru C44 are all former USAirways gates and are used by AA and as a result of that Republic as well. C43 and C44 are hard stand gates that use mobile stairs, these are regional aircraft only. These are located in the general area of where the two hangars are shown in the game between terminals B and C, but they are right off of C. The two hangars are no longer there nor is taxiway ZA. That area is under construction and has the first of the two island piers for the new B terminal being built there. Gates C34 thru C15 are controlled by Delta.
Terminal D: Delta Airlines plus Westjet which operates out of D7 I believe.
Now, come December 9th, the previously posted link applies.
Now as far as how to tell flights apart to go to one terminal or the other... At republic, you can tell them apart by the flight numbers. A general rule would be UA's flights start with 3's, AA's with 4's and DL's with 5's or 6's. Below are our specific associated flight numbers and their operating partner. These were effective November. The ranges provided for the DL shuttle flights include the numbers for both directions on the route.
UA 3400-3759
AA 4385-4774
DL 5959-5986 (ORD Shuttles), 6046-6079 (BOS shuttles), 6131-6158 (DCA Shuttles), ALL other 5000 or 6000 series flight number is a normal Delta flight. There is a small subset of 4000 numbers for Delta, but they are JFK only so would not be applicable here since they would never touch LGA.
Writing this makes me want to go buy the game, but I am waiting to see if they reduce it at all for black Friday since they posted that they are having a sale then...