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.
You can now clearly see which aircraft are occupying temporary slots directly from the Operations Cockpit, thanks to new slot status badges.
A new badge with a Gantt Chart icon now appears next to aircraft that are temporarily stored in a slot. These badges work just like those for stands and hangars - click them to view the associated agreement and owner information.
This visual cue gives you quicker insight into how your aircraft are positioned and helps you avoid surprises when managing limited capacity.
We've adjusted the Operations Centre (OC) requirements for international slot agreements to make them more flexible and accessible.
Previously, some agreements required you to have an OC at the specific airport where the agreement was signed. Now, these agreements only require you to have a suitably-sized OC anywhere within the same country. This means a single Operations Centre in the United Kingdom, for example, can now support international slot agreements at both London Heathrow and Manchester without needing a separate building at each.
In addition, the minimum OC size required for some international slot agreements has been reduced. For example, some agreements that previously required a 'Large' OC now only require a 'Medium' one. These changes should make it easier and more cost-effective to expand your international route network.
The live flight map has been updated to include Air Traffic Control-style data blocks for each aircraft. This provides more information at a glance, showing the aircraft's callsign and tail number directly on the map for easier identification and tracking.
The standard weight for passengers has been updated to 100kg. This change accounts for the average weight of a passenger plus their baggage, providing a more realistic figure for weight and balance calculations in your flight planning.
We've changed how routes are enabled and managed. From now on, all routes will require an available Slot to operate. Slots are a new type of recurring agreement within the game, designed to provide a more realistic and structured approach to network management. They come in two distinct types: domestic for internal flights and international for flights crossing borders. This change means you'll need to secure the correct type of slot for each route you wish to fly.
In addition to the new slot system, we're giving you more direct control over your flight network. You can now manually enable or disable routes as you see fit. This allows for greater flexibility in managing your network. Disabled routes do not contribute to your route network at all, effectively behaving as if they were deleted.
A new type of parking agreement, Stands, is now available. These are specifically designed for airliners. Unlike General Aviation (GA) aircraft, airliners do not accrue accelerated maintenance when parked outside, making stands a more flexible parking solution for your larger aircraft. While primarily for airliners, you can also use any spare stand capacity to store your GA aircraft, protecting them from parking fees when you find yourself in a pinch.
We've introduced a new auto-storage system that intelligently manages where your aircraft are parked. The system uses a priority-based approach to automatically assign aircraft to the most suitable available space. It will prioritise hangars for aircraft that benefit most from being sheltered and then allocate remaining aircraft to stands or other available parking. This should reduce the amount of manual shuffling required to keep your fleet organised and maintained.
To help you better understand the activity of your business, we've added a new company clock visualisation. This feature provides a heatmap of your company's operational hours, showing you at a glance when your fleet is most active and when it's idle. You can use this information to identify patterns and make more informed decisions about your company's operations.
You can now upload custom images for each aircraft in your fleet. From the Aircraft Dialog, you'll find a new option to upload an image, which will then appear across the platform in the Operations Cockpit, on maps, and in tooltips. To help manage this, a new Change Aircraft Settings privilege has been added to company roles. As a bonus, when you list an aircraft on the classifieds, its custom image will automatically be used for the sale listing.
To help new players get started we are introducing interactive on-screen tours. These step-by-step guides will walk you through key interfaces and features directly within the application. Tours can be reset at any time from your settings page.
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Available status filter option on the Flight Board has now been removed.Route numbers can now include a trailing letter, letting you publish variants like 101A/101B for split operations or time-of-day pairs.
Marking an aircraft as sold now removes it from your Assets list and fleet totals right away. This keeps your inventory and valuations accurate the moment ownership changes.
Resetting a job now keeps affected passenger groups correctly reserved when a follow-on leg already exists (for example, when an FBO auto-creates a final-leg charter after a route leg). This prevents rare re-accept errors and duplicate “first legs” from appearing.
Accepting jobs now has better awareness of departure/arrival airports on collaborative and follow-on legs, improving how onward opportunities are created and displayed.
Accept Asset Transfers option in Company Settings could not be saved. This bug was preventing company mergers from being completed. You can now enable or disable asset transfers correctly, and mergers will proceed as expected.