I have been playing a few months now and i am a little bit more educated about airplanes now (thanks airwaysim for this piece of culture that I was missing and that I truly enjoy), I was wondering if fleet commonality takes in consideration the numerous mergers that took place in the industry troughout the years.
Example: British Aerospace / BAe systems
Douglas / McDonnel Douglas
De havilland / Dehavilland canada
and so on?
Is that something existant or will it be integrated in the future?
The reasoning is that I should not be charged more if the plane is basically the same and the name of the company is different...
I don't think any are. I only know for definite about BAe.
For example, British Aerospace/Bae Systems:
The BAe 146 was superseeded by the AVRO RJ series, which was a redesign despite the apparent aesthetic similarities, so this has no commonality.
The ATP was a development of the HS748, but again a new design, so no commonality here either.
Jetstreams were originally a Handley Page designed aircraft, but are only BAe in the game.
Thinking about the others quickly, Bombardier Q400s are in a different group to Dash-8s, as they're a different design.
DC-9s, MD-80s and MD-90s are all seperate too - This (https://www.airwaysim.com/forum/index.php/topic,17896.0.html) thread explains this well.
This (https://www.airwaysim.com/Information/Aircraft/) list shows all the aircraft in the game, but if the aircraft are listed under a different manufacturer then they won't share fleet commonality.
Cheers,
Dave