Reworked Contract Preview

We've redesigned the contract preview dialog to give you a much clearer picture of a company's operations before you sign.

Instead of just showing a limited list of jobs you could fly right now, the new preview shows you everything the company has to offer.

The biggest change is how you preview a company's work. We've split this into two new tabs:

• Routes: This tab lists all of the company's enabled routes. You can see the origin, destination, distance, and current passenger demand. We've also added stats so you can see how many times a route has been flown and when it was last active.
• Charter Jobs: This tab shows all real charter jobs the company has posted on its marketplace. You can see the route, distance, passenger count, and how long the job has been waiting.

This new approach helps you make better decisions by evaluating the company's total activity, not just what's available at this exact moment.

Advanced Aircraft Filtering

The "Available Aircraft" tab now includes advanced filtering and sorting. You can filter the full list of aircraft for that rank by manufacturer, type, seats, cargo capacity, and more, so you know exactly what hardware you're getting access to.

Better Contract Marketplace Filtering

To help you find active contracts, the marketplace list now defaults to filtering for "Has Jobs" and "Has Aircraft".

This means you'll automatically see contracts from companies that have at least one enabled route, one released charter job, or one aircraft assigned to a rank. You can still toggle these filters off if you want to see all available contracts.

Expandable Dialogs

You can now expand most dialog windows (including the new contract preview) to fill your screen. Just click the new "expand" icon in the top-right corner to get a bigger view, which is especially useful for digging into the new preview tabs or managing large lists.

Other improvements

• Fixed a UI issue that could cause dropdown menus and data lists to fail to load correctly on the first try.

The new Groups feature can now be used to control the aircraft that your ranks can access. Following on from yesterday's update, you can now apply an "Aircraft Group" constraint directly to any rank.

This makes it incredibly easy to create specialized roles. For example, you can make a "Long Haul" rank locked to your "Heavy Fleet" group, all using the same flexible Groups system.

To support this new system, we've improved how rank permissions are updated. Your rank settings will now react instantly to any changes you make to your fleet or groups.

Other improvements

• All aircraft constraints (including by Type, Category, etc.) now correctly exclude frozen aircraft from the available list.
• Fixed a bug that could occur in premium feature checks when no user was present (e.g., in a background job).

Small Improvements

• Fixed an issue in the 'Create Rank' dialog where dragging a new rank to its intended position could sometimes assign it the wrong level.
• Resolved a related bug that could cause an error when trying to save changes to your company's rank structure. Re-ordering and adding new ranks is now more reliable.

We’re introducing a new Air Operator Certificate (AOC) system, adding a new layer of progression to your company's growth. Your AOC level determines the types of aircraft you can operate and influences your financial capabilities.

When you start a new company, you will now select your starting AOC level, which comes with an associated certification fee. Each level unlocks access to larger and more complex aircraft categories.

This new certification directly impacts your operations:

• Aircraft Purchases: You will only be able to purchase aircraft that fall within your company's current AOC level.
• Loan Capacity: A higher AOC level demonstrates greater operational capability, which increases the maximum amount you can borrow from the bank.
• Upgrades: You can upgrade your AOC level at any time through your company management panel, allowing you to expand your fleet and take on bigger challenges.

This system is also being applied to all existing companies, which have been migrated to the appropriate AOC level based on their current fleet.

Other improvements

• Updated airport data and geographic scores for improved accuracy.
• Fixed an issue that could cause incorrect profit calculations on the monthly finance report.
• Improved the styling of informational quote blocks and messages throughout the interface.
• Company profit and loss no longer takes fixed assets into account.

You can now create and manage "Groups," a powerful new premium feature for organizing your operations. Groups are reusable lists of airports, countries, or aircraft that you can use as filters across the platform.

You'll find the new Groups management page in your company's navigation sidebar.

From here, you can create groups for Airports, Countries, or Aircraft. When building an aircraft group, you can add either individual tail numbers or entire aircraft types (e.g., "all B738s" or "all C172s") to create flexible fleet definitions.

Use Groups Everywhere

The real power of Groups comes from using them in your existing workflows:

• Pricing Strategies: You can now select a Group directly from any airport or country filter when creating a pricing strategy. This lets you apply a single rule to dozens of locations at once.
• Demand & Airport Search: All airport and country filters (including demand search) now support groups, enabling you to search for demand from and/or to multiple locations at once.
• Filter Bar Integration: When you filter by a group, the compact filter tag in your filter bar will now show a new icon to indicate a group is active.

Other improvements

• Fixed an issue that could cause a "request in progress" error if you navigated between pages very quickly. Data-loading requests will no longer block each other, making the app feel more responsive.

We've made the platform more robust by introducing new safeguards against accidental duplicate actions. This helps prevent issues like unintentionally chartering a flight twice or submitting the same form multiple times if you double-click.

This behind-the-scenes improvement ensures that your requests are processed cleanly and only once, making for a smoother and more reliable experience, especially during periods of high server load or with a slow connection. Your actions are now better protected from unintended errors.

Other improvements

• Fixed an issue where creating new routes would sometimes fail because airport slot access was being checked incorrectly.
• Job listings now correctly respect all rank constraints, so you will no longer see jobs that you are not yet qualified for.
• Resolved a bug that could cause passengers and cargo to be counted as disembarked twice in flight reports.
• Fixed an issue where new buildings and agreements could not get quotes.
• New agreement costs have been halved until dynamic slot pricing is introduced shortly.

Passenger Services

To better reflect their role in the game, we've renamed the FBO (Fixed-Base Operator) building type to Passenger Services.

This is purely a name change to provide more clarity. All of your existing FBOs have been automatically renamed, and their functionality—extending your route network and enabling final-leg charters—remains exactly the same. You'll see this new name reflected across the platform, from the building purchase screen to your airport management panels.

Fairer Agreement Cancellations

We've fixed an issue that made it difficult to cancel agreements with an upfront payment. Previously, the system didn't count your initial payment towards the minimum term requirement.

Now, upfront payments correctly count as the first paid cycle. This means you can cancel these agreements as soon as the minimum term is met, without having to wait for an extra billing cycle to complete. We've also added a new badge to your finance screen to make it clear which recurring payments are charged upfront.

Other improvements

• The Job Marketplace map now shows a loading indicator and will only display jobs once it's fully ready, preventing visual glitches on slower connections.
• Clarified the wording in notifications for aircraft that cannot find available storage space after completing a job.

We've tweaked how aircraft slot grace periods are displayed and made it easier to recover your aircraft, ensuring you're never locked out of accessing your own assets.

A Clearer View of Grace Periods

Previously, it was difficult to tell when an aircraft's grace period in a slot was about to end or what happened after it expired. We've introduced a new set of clear, color-coded badges to give you at-a-glance status information.

When an aircraft is on an active grace period, you'll see an orange badge with a countdown timer. This shows you exactly how long you have until the aircraft is automatically moved to storage.

If the grace period ends and there's no available hangar or stand space, the aircraft will remain in the slot. This is now indicated by a red badge, letting you know that the slot is blocked because there was nowhere for the aircraft to go. This helps you quickly identify and resolve storage conflicts at your airports.

Recover Your Aircraft from Anywhere

Losing access to a partner's facilities no longer means losing access to your aircraft. If a partnership ends or facility access changes while your aircraft is parked in a location you can no longer use, you can now always open the agreement panel to retrieve it.

This ensures you can always manage and move your assets, even if they are located in a hangar or stand that has become restricted. You will have just enough access to view the facility and remove your aircraft, guaranteeing you never get locked out.

Other improvements

• Aircraft slots can no longer be shared publicly; access is now restricted to either your own company or members of a partnership. This provides greater control over your facilities and ensures a more accurate count of available slots.
• When access rules for a partnership change, aircraft using a partner's facilities are now automatically and correctly removed to prevent them from getting stuck.

• Fixed an issue where the configuration screen for FBO charter destinations would not load, causing the page to hang.

• Fixed an issue where your routes could be automatically disabled if all of your airport slots were occupied. Your routes will now remain active as long as you have a valid slot agreement at both the departure and arrival airports, regardless of current usage.
• Clarified the owner salary description in your company settings to specify that the salary is paid at 5am UTC on the 1st of each month.

After you complete a flight, your aircraft no longer just sits in a slot marked "Occupied." You'll now see a clear "Grace Period" timer, showing exactly how long the aircraft can remain in the slot before it's automatically moved to storage. This new badge is visible on both the Aircraft and Agreement views.

If you need to free up the slot sooner for another company aircraft, you can now manually trigger the auto-parking process. A new "Auto-park" button appears for any aircraft currently in its grace period, giving you more direct control over your valuable airport slots.

To improve performance and make finding the right jobs easier, the Job Marketplace now helps you narrow your search if you have a large number of active contracts.

If you have more than five active contracts, you will now be prompted to choose which contracts you’d like to see jobs from when you open the marketplace. Simply select up to five contracts from the list and click "Search Jobs" to load all available routes from those specific companies.

This change ensures the marketplace loads quickly and reliably, allowing you to focus on the jobs you're interested in without long loading times. If you have five or fewer contracts, the marketplace will continue to load all available jobs automatically as it always has.