I really want to upgrade this airport, because it's causing some big backlogs for me. However, it's so busy that there are constantly airplanes either loading/unloading, in the hangar waiting or circling to land. This means I can't delete to rebuild. Is there any way I can clear it out temporarily to allow me to demolish/rebuild?
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When you click on the airport, in the details screen there is a 'Close Airport' button. Next to the 'Rename Airport' button I believe.
This will stop planes from landing (it'll skip the destination in their orders) which lets you do the in situ upgrade.
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1If you're quick enough, you can also demolish a station and build another over it. The new station will retain the details of the first and the vehicles will return when their orders next dictate it. Commented Jan 28, 2013 at 9:49
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1As an addendum to my answer, I believe the 'close airport' button is introduced in the version 1.3 beta - so it doesn't apply to the current release version (1.2.3 at time of answer). Commented Feb 15, 2013 at 0:05
You can try to have all the planes dock somewhere else, which would take a lot of time.
A possibly easier thing to do is to build a temporary airport to accomodate a place for the aircraft to be during the upgrade. What I mean with that is that you replace this airport with the temporary airport in the airplanes directions.