You now have more granular control over your ticket pricing with new airport-type filters and the ability to temporarily pause active strategies and price-out passengers.
You can now apply strategies to passengers who have a final destination of a Heliport and price them out or incentivise them - useful for preventing passengers with hard-to-deliver endpoints from boarding your routes.
Active pricing strategies can now be paused and resumed without being deleted or ended permanently.
This is ideal for temporary promotional pauses or adjusting fleet operations without losing your complex strategy configurations. While paused, ticket prices will revert to baseline levels, and once resumed, the rules stack again immediately.
By using the new Price Out feature, you can automatically set ticket prices so high that passengers will no longer book that route. Previously strategy surcharges were capped at 100%, which would not be enough to price out passengers on low-fare routes.
You can now send FSMail messages directly to other players (P2P) or to the staff of another company (P2C) using a new dedicated compose interface. This long-requested feature makes it easy to open a dialogue for partnerships, sales, or general conversation - all without leaving the FSCharter platform.
To start a new message, simply head to the FSMail page and use the new Compose button to open the messaging panel.
When sending to a company, your message will only be delivered to staff members who have the Receive Company FSMail privilege. This is enabled by default for the Owner and Operations Manager roles to prevent unsolicited messages from reaching everyone in your company.
You can now quickly reply to any FSMail message using the new Reply button in the message display panel. This pre-fills the sender and quotes the original message body, making conversation simple.
The airport selection dialog has been overhauled to significantly enhance your search and planning experience.
A new map view is now available alongside the searchable airport list. This allows you to visually explore the available airports and interactively select a potential destination.
Hovering over an airport on the map and pressing i on your keyboard or clicking the i button on the table row brings up a dedicated preview panel to show detailed airport information, including the available runways. Alternatively clicking on the airport on the map or the table row will immediately select it.
When you select an aircraft for hire in the marketplace, the list of available jobs (demand) is now automatically filtered to only show contracts that are within a realistic operating range for that specific aircraft.
Previously, you might have selected a short-range aircraft only to be presented with job opportunities hundreds or thousands of nautical miles away, leading to jobs you couldn't actually complete. Now, the system automatically applies a distance filter to the job list. This filter is calculated to be 120% of the aircraft's base range, giving you a small buffer while ensuring the available jobs are sensible. If the aircraft owner has specified a manual range filter this will be applied instead of the default range filter.
Additionally, we've made it easier to see the passenger capacity of the aircraft you're about to hire. When browsing the demand for an aircraft you will now see a clear badge showing the number of First, Business, and Economy seats available on the aircraft right next to its name.
Search this area button.We're replacing the former "Create Job" feature in your Passenger Services buildings with a more flexible and robust Company Collaboration system. This change simplifies how you share demand with partners, prevents issues related to automatically created, unoptimised micro-jobs and removes the requirement for partners to grant you Create Dispatch Plans privileges in your company.
Going forward, your Passenger Services building will no longer automatically create and dispatch jobs for you or your partners. Instead, it will assign the final leg's demand as a collaborative opportunity directly to the designated company.
When configuring a destination for your Passenger Services, select Company Collaboration and choose an active member of your partnership from the dropdown list. This demand will only be visible to the specified partner company and will appear as collaborative demand in their Demand lens. This means that they can combine it with other demand, route it efficiently, and dispatch full aircraft. This was previously possible on when the Internal Collaboration option was selected, which made the demand available to all members of the partnership.
Additionally, to prevent confusion and accidental transfers, any demand assigned via Company Collaboration is now "pinned" to the target company, meaning it won't accidentally be bundled into a partnership-wide asset transfer.
Create Job action have been automatically migrated to the new Company Collaboration action, and the company is now referenced by its permanent ID (UUID) instead of the ICAO code.You now have more flexibility when making large financial transfers from companies to users or other companies, such as for major deals with partners.
The maximum amount of money your company can transfer is now calculated using a new formula, which is designed to allow larger transfers for financially healthy companies while preventing exploitation of the company loan system.
Previously, your transfer limit was capped at your monthly profit. Now, the limit is the highest of the following two amounts:
This means if you have a high bank balance and low debt, you can transfer more than your monthly profit. Conversely, if you have a high level of outstanding loans, the system defaults to your monthly profit limit, ensuring a safe limit is maintained.
This change opens up new avenues for partnership negotiation and collaboration, giving you better financial control without compromising the system's integrity.
We have corrected a long-standing issue where Owner Salary Payments were being credited to your personal account but were not properly debited from your company's bank account (oops)!
Previously, when you received your monthly salary based on your company's profit, your personal funds increased, but the company's funds were not reduced, leading to an artificially inflated company balance.
With this fix, salary payments now correctly operate as an outgoing payment from your company to you, ensuring the company's financial records are accurate.
We've been listening to your feedback regarding the current implementation of the contracts system, particularly how the three-contract limit can too easily lock out non-premium users early in their FSCharter career. We hear you, and we agree. The current system isn't quite working as we had envisaged.
We are planning an improved, more accessible system that will benefit both pilots and companies. However, in the meantime, we have removed the three-contract limit for non-premium users. You can now apply to and hold as many active contracts as you need, giving you the flexibility to find suitable work without the fear of getting stuck with contracts from inactive companies or for undesirable routes.
Hopefully this change (coupled with the recent removal of withdrawal fees) makes the contract system more fit-for purpose as we work out a better long-term solution.
We have lowered the purchase price for all aircraft by 10% to better align to the current economy. To ensure fairness for those who have recently invested in their fleet, we have processed automatic refunds. If you own an aircraft affected by this price adjustment, the difference between your original purchase price and the new market value has been credited back to your company bank account.
To support faster fleet progression and better cash flow management, we have doubled the maximum repayment period for loans. You can now secure loans with terms of up to 120 cycles (previously capped at 60). Spreading payments over a longer period reduces your recurring cycle costs, allowing you to invest in larger, more capable aircraft earlier in your career.
Finding the right job for a rented aircraft just got easier. When browsing demand for a hireable aircraft, the marketplace now automatically filters out passenger groups that won't fit. The system now checks the aircraft's capacity against the available groups, ensuring you only see jobs you can actually fly.
We have improved the company finance page to give you better visibility and control of recurring payments. You can now view the total of all recurring payments and the ability to view a detailed breakdown of your recurring expenses, categorised by type.
Additionally, the Recurring Payments tab now clearly displays the specific name of the agreement that it relates to. We have also added the ability to cancel agreements directly from the Agreements page within the Operations Cockpit, saving you unnecessary navigation steps.
Companies can now hire out GA aircraft directly to pilots to configure their own charter jobs.
Whether you are a freelance pilot looking to earn quick cash or a contracted pilot wanting to self-dispatch a GA aircraft from your airline's fleet, the new Charter Aircraft for Hire tab in the Job Marketplace gives you the freedom to build your own flights based on the same global demand that company managers use to build Dispatch Plans and Routes.
Once you select an aircraft, you have control over the manifest. You can choose which passenger groups to load and visualise how they fill the aircraft. From here, you can accept the job in one click and start flying!
Airline managers can now put their idle GA fleet to work by making aircraft available for hire.
You retain operational control by setting specific restrictions. You can limit your aircraft to specific countries, enforce a maximum distance from a base airport, and/or apply any demand filter. For example, you can restrict demand to "Last Leg" only (perfect for making sure you unlock revenue) or "Can Traverse Routes" (great for funneling passengers into your route network).
You can read more about Aircraft Hiring for companies and pilots in the documentation.