I’ve been noticing the large amount of parked aircraft at various airports, and it seems most large airport or areas have at least a couple of them. I might be in a minority and this probably sounds peevish but the parked aircraft really annoy me. One of my favorite aspects of multiplayer is seeing other aircraft/people and the environment feeling life-like and alive, and the parked aircraft detract from this experience while adding little to nothing in return. Every time I see an aircraft icon in an odd place I get curious and click to see what they’re doing, only to find it’s a shell aircraft. These aircraft don’t do anything and take away from the multiplayer experience for me, because of my weird obsession with finding where everyone is going around me on my flights. These planes should be removed imo or at the very least have discernible icons on the map. They shouldn’t occupy passenger gates, instead maybe only occupying maintenance areas as that could be a cool touch. Again, I know this is fully nitpicking and childish to be annoyed at so feel free to call it that, but I just don’t like them as an addition to the game.
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I prefer them. Instead of arriving into a major international hub with zero aircraft present
Definitely interesting to read the other side regarding this feature. I personally like the parked aircraft as they make the airport actually seem somewhat busy - I find being the only one at an airport feels odd and unrealistic. “static/parked” aircraft has been a long requested feature.
Given it’s part of an in-development feature (which we don’t know much about at this time), presumably at some point everyone will have the ability to “park” their aircraft. We’ll have to wait and see how it works from a gate availability standpoint, etc.
These parked aircraft aren’t always just shell aircraft, they’re aircraft beta testers have for an upcoming mode that’s been dubbed “Corporate Mode”, once the update with it comes up you’ll be seeing A LOT more of them, but when it comes out you’ll also be seeing a lot more of them actually doing something and going places.
I also personly like this parked aircrafts because it keeps airport not like abandoned..actually its a good feature
I think the aircraft should stay there but if you want to spawn at a gate where a plane is parked, they’d despawn.
That said, I actually like the feature because it gives the airport a lively feel. Without it, some airports look completely abandoned, almost like a sci-fi movie where humanity and its technology have mysteriously disappeared. On the other hand, I’m occasionally a bit bothered by these unoccupied aircraft—especially at smaller international airports, since they can end up clogging the gates.
or remote stands that are not intended for boarding and alighting passengers in general. This I totally agree with.
Hopefully, my comment doesn’t end up triggering the removal of these unoccupied aircraft—at least not until the testers have fully completed their trial runs. 
I reckon it’s actually slightly realistic, I’ve pulled up into Sydney many times from various locations around the globe and half the time these guys are just parked. Pulling up into an international/domestic airport with no aircraft seems weird so this actually adds a little bit of realism to the airport but I see where your coming from.
It’s cool, but there needs to be a gate claim feature that removes the aircraft if somebody wants to use the gate.
Exactly plain and simple that’s what we need! A couple of weeks ago i was going to an overnight flight out of London made my fpl and was all ready to go went to spawn in at the correct gate and of course i couldn’t because there was parked aircraft so that just ruined everything.
How do they even do the parked status?
I really get you’re point and the way you"re looking at it and i agree some of it. For me what i find anoying is when youre using bigger airplanes that the gates wich i need to park are used by static planes. Don’t get my wrong i like the idea very much but when youre not one a large hub and i fly a lot in europe not everywhere is like Istanbul where i can park i know its not that realistic bit its a pain to see i can’t park
I wish there was more trafic to the less used airport and not everyone goes to EGLL all of ghe time because thats all you see sometimes eddf egll lfpg. But i find it a intresting addition to the multiplayer. It makes the expert server more alive! 
Idk sometimes they spawn out of knowwhere and you never know how long they stay or be moved. I wonder when we even know more about it.
Here’s a response by Ben that’ll get you up to speed.
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