This article is about the original airport. For the new spaceport, see NCX Spaceport.Night City Metropolitan Airport[1][2] (also known as Night City International[1] or just the Night City Metro[3][4]) was the main airport of Night City in the first decades of the 21th century. It was located in South Night City.
History[]
Since its construction, the Metropolitan Airport of Night City offered an arrange of services, with connecting flights worldwide and with direct connections to nearby cities. Suborbital flights to the Johnson Space Platform could be scheduled with Los Angeles International; passengers took a local flight there, and then transferred to the the Orbital Air Mojave spaceport facility via a maglev train in order to travel to orbit. Security at Night City International was low, and it was advised for passengers to bring low-velocity rounds when aboard the plane and plan accordingly to their own risk.[1][3]
Around 2020 there was a light plane crash at the airport, causing the deaths of all the aircraft occupants.[3]
During the early 2020s, Night City was devastated by the Fourth Corporate War and the Night City Holocaust. After the conflict, much of the metropolis lied in ruins, and the airport was not spared. The outcome disrupted most of the regular transit into the city, including both local and international flights.[4]
As part of the city reclamation during the Time of the Red, a new project emerged to instead build an orbital spaceplane mass driver launch site on the offshore island of Morro Rock,[4] though these plans were eventually discarded and instead the NCX Spaceport was constructed. Thus the old Metropolitan was abandoned, and was soon replaced by newly constructed buildings.
Layout[]
Located in South Night City, the Metropolitan Airport had four terminals with twenty-three gates, a central control tower, two ticket booths, and an area for shops and a restaurant. It also included an NCART station and a CitiPark parking structure. This last one cost 50eb per day.[1][2]
The airport was accessed via standard roads, and had connections to the nearby major freeway as well. Taxi and Ameriline bus connections were available too. Moreover, the Hacienda Hotel had a special charter that ran between the hotel and the airport every three hours.[1]
Terminals[]
Terminal A[]
Terminal A had six gates and was responsible for national flights, which departed and arrived every day at different times for Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Sacramento, Denver, Salt Lake City, among others. Airline access was granted for Western Pacific Airlines.
Terminal B[]
Terminal B had six gates and was responsible for international and national flights, which departed and arrived every day at different times for Los Angeles, Hawaii, Seattle, San Francisco, Australia, Tokyo, Guam, among others. Airline access was granted for Atlas Airlines.
Terminal C[]
Terminal C had five gates and was responsible for international and national flights, which departed and arrived once a week for Tokyo, Hawaii, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Seattle, Denver, Houston, St. Louis, Chicago, Baltimore/Washington, D.C., New York City, Winston-Salem, Atlanta, Miami, among others. Airline access was granted for Pan-Pacific Airway and its Phoenix-class aerozeps.
Terminal D[]
Terminal D had six gates and was responsible for national flights, which departed and arrived every day at different times for Los Angeles, St. Louis, Dallas, San Francisco, Atlanta, Denver, Salt Lake City, among others. Airline access was granted for TransContinental America.
Notes[]
- The Orbital Air hangars and buildings near the airport (which held most of their tech work and all of the company's aircrafts) were a more a likely infiltration target against the company, rather than their corporate offices in downtown Night City.[1]
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 PONDSMITH, M. Night City Sourcebook. Berkeley, CA, R. Talsorian Games, 1991. (pp.7,14–15,28,106,170)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Countdown to the Dark Future (#10,#178)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 PONDSMITH, M. Cyberpunk 2020 Core Rulebook. 2nd ed., Berkeley, CA, R. Talsorian Games, 1990. (pp.105,217)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 PONDSMITH, M. Cyberpunk RED Core Rulebook. Kenmore, WA, R. Talsorian Games, 2020. (p.303)
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