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:
This system is also being applied to all existing companies, which have been migrated to the appropriate AOC level based on their current fleet.
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.
The real power of Groups comes from using them in your existing workflows:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We’ve completely overhauled the underlying query system for the job market, making it significantly faster to find and filter flights.
Previously, if you had contracts with multiple companies, the job search could become slow as the system checked every possible flight against your pilot constraints. We've rebuilt this logic from the ground up to be far more efficient. The system now intelligently filters jobs based on the companies you can fly for before evaluating complex aircraft and route constraints, dramatically reducing the processing load.
You'll notice the biggest improvements when searching broad areas or when you hold many active pilot contracts. The job list and map view now populate much more quickly, getting you in the air faster.
We've resolved an issue that could sometimes cause the Live Flight Map to appear empty when you first opened it.
This was caused by a race condition where the map would occasionally try to draw aircraft before their data had been fully loaded. The map now waits for all data to be ready and displays a clear loading indicator, ensuring you always see a complete picture of active flights.