Feature

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!

Hiring Controls for Airlines

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.

Other improvements

• Added Is Last Leg demand filter

We have introduced a new Allowed on Routes filter to the demand search options.

When enabled, this filter automatically hides specialised demand types that are incompatible with standard scheduled operations.

Note that you may need to clear your cache from the ... More menu in the bottom left of the screen before the filter shows.

You can now move money freely between companies and players. All four transfer types are supported:

• B2B (company → company)
• B2P (company → player)
• P2P (player → player)
• P2B (player → company)

This replaces the old "Inject Funds" mechanic. Any player can now send money from their personal bank account into a company without needing a special privilege.

Company transfers follow stricter rules. A company can only send out up to its current month’s profit, and never more than its actual bank balance. Transfers count as Manual Transfer expenses, so sending money out immediately lowers the profit figure for that month. Loans don’t affect this limit; companies can’t use loan income to increase how much they’re allowed to transfer.

Personal transfers have no profit limit. You can move any amount up to your personal balance, whether paying another player directly or supporting a company.

To control company-originated transfers, a new Transfer Funds privilege has been added. It determines who can initiate B2B and B2P transfers and replaces the removed Inject Funds privilege.

Can Traverse Routes Filter

A new Can Traverse Routes filter is now available in the demand view. This filter lets you limit demand to only the destinations your network can actually reach from a chosen drop-off airport.

When you select a drop-off airport, the demand view automatically shows only the passenger groups whose final destination can be reached through your current route network (including up to three hops and any Passenger Services coverage you’ve built).

This helps you choose which demand to take on charters, eliminating the manual review of your network and helps answer the question "If I drop off these passengers, can they even be delivered?".

Other improvements

• Airport filter component now hides the “add airport” button when a filter only supports a single airport selection.

You can now apply new filters to the Demand lens, allowing you to quickly find passengers willing to fly to or from specific types of airports.

This new filtering capability is especially useful for companies operating specialized fleets. For example, you can easily filter for demand groups that originate at Heliports or those that are only flying into Small Airports.

The available filter options cover four main airport categories:

• Heliport
• Small Airport
• Medium Airport
• Large Airport

Other improvements

• Fixed a bug that resulted in incorrect route pricing for some demand with specific pricing strategies.

🏦 Loan System Overhaul

We have completed a major overhaul of the company loan system. We discovered a bug in our interest calculations that made loans significantly more expensive than intended. This has been corrected. All loans now use a clearer Annual Percentage Rate (APR) model, and interest rates have been significantly reduced across the board.

We've also introduced new "Standard Growth Loan" tiers to help you expand your company at different stages of your career.

Most importantly, we have run a script to rebalance all existing loans. If you have an active loan, its interest rate has been lowered to match the new, cheaper APR rates, and your remaining payments have been recalculated. You don't need to do anything; your loan is now cheaper.

✏️ Company Name & ICAO Updates

You now have the ability to update your company's name and ICAO code. In your company preferences, you'll find the new fields after clicking on the Edit button next to your company details.

This allows you to rebrand your company or fix typos you made during setup.

✈️ Aircraft & Economy Updates

We've continued to refine the economy by slightly reducing the prices for many aircraft in the database. We also updated seating and payload statistics for several airframes to be more accurate.

Additionally, we've added a Request a new aircraft button directly to the aircraft database page, linking you to the official request form.

💺 Critical Charter Job Fix

We fixed a critical bug in the seat assignment logic for charter jobs. Previously, the system that checked passenger seating has a bug that allowed you to accept a job with an aircraft that was actually too small.

The logic now correctly handles upgrades for charter jobs where Business passengers fill empty First Class seats before Economy passengers do. This ensures that an aircraft is only marked as valid if it truly has enough seats for all passengers after all upgrades are processed.

🛫 Improved Slot Validation

We've improved slot validation for aircraft jobs. The Available Aircraft screen will no longer show an aircraft as valid if it doesn't have a required departure slot. The diagnostic view is also clearer, showing separate checks for departure and arrival slots.

Other improvements

• Fixed an issue on the V1 migration screen where the Next button could not be clicked.
• Fixed a bug that caused the browser tab to freeze or crash when editing number fields, such as the Simbrief passenger weight.
• The Finances tab within a partnership's detail page is now scrollable.
• Updated the Discord button and added new badges for supported platforms (MSFS, X-Plane, etc.) to the landing page.

You can now create a shared economy with your partners using the new Revenue Sharing system. This optional feature lets you automatically pool income from member flights and distribute profits on a monthly basis.

As a partnership manager, you'll find a new Finances tab in your partnership panel. From here, you can enable revenue sharing, which instantly creates a shared bank account for your partnership.

When you first enable revenue sharing, all existing members are set to 100% contribution and an equal share. You can then customize this using the new Update All Revenue Sharing Percentages tool on the Members tab. This allows you to set two key values for every member in the partnership:

• Revenue Contribution %: The percentage of a member's flight revenue that is automatically paid into the partnership pot.
• Share Percentage %: The percentage of the pot that member receives during the monthly payout. The total share must equal 100%.

When a member completes a flight, their contribution is transferred to the partnership account. On the 1st of every month, the entire balance of the partnership account is distributed to all members based on their configured share.

You can track all of this activity in the Finances tab, which shows the partnership's current balance and a full log of all contributions and payouts. The Members tab also provides a clear overview of each member's percentages and their most recent payout.

When a new company joins an already-active partnership, they will be added with 0% contribution and 0% share. You can then use the "Update All" tool to rebalance the partnership's new economy and include them in the payouts

You can read more about Partnership Revenue Sharing in our documentation.

Other improvements

• Updated the default avatar used for Discord notifications.

We've heard your feedback that charter jobs, especially short hops in the early game, often don't feel worth the time and effort.

As a first step towards making General Aviation (GA) more sustainable, we're introducing a new demand premium. You will now receive an additional payment on top of the base fare for both charter and route jobs. This bonus increases your revenue without changing the passenger's underlying travel budget.

This pay boost is most significant for charter jobs, which now include a substantial flat-rate premium, while passengers flying routes receive a smaller (but still significant) subsidy towards their ticket price, resulting in marginally higher demand for routes.

This is just the beginning of our work to re-balance the charter economy. We are actively developing further improvements, including more significant pay boosts and revenue-sharing features for partnerships, which will be released in future updates.

Charter Job Payments

For Charter jobs, you'll receive a £150 premium per passenger. This payment is applied once per passenger group for each job, specifically on the first leg that you fly for them.

If a passenger group's journey is split into multiple legs within the same job, only that first leg receives this extra payment. This makes completing the first step of a charter even more valuable.

Route Job Payments

Route jobs work differently, providing a subsidy that helps both you and the passengers. You will receive an extra £50 per passenger for every route leg they fly with your company.

This payment also acts as a subsidy for passengers, making your routes more attractive. When passengers are deciding if they can afford your route, this £50 is temporarily added to their budget for the affordability check. This means they can afford more expensive or longer routes than before, increasing your potential customer base.

In both Charter and Route cases, this subsidy doesn't come out of the passenger's actual travel budget, so they still have their full funds available for future trips. It's a simple revenue boost for you and an affordability boost for them.

Small Improvements

• Added a manual refresh button for routes that are disabled due to Insufficient Slots. If you believe a route should be active but it appears disabled, you can now press this button to force a re-check. This is a temporary workaround until the root cause is fixed.

Small Improvements

• Fixed a bug in aircraft valuation that could cause unfair price swings. An aircraft's resale value is now correctly based on its original purchase price and condition, rather than the current market price for a new model of that type. This makes valuations more stable and predictable.
• Re-enabled the "Sell to Broker" option, which was temporarily disabled. You can once again sell your aircraft directly to the broker for an instant payment.

We've overhauled the loan borrowing screen to give you complete visibility into all available loan products and why you may or may not be eligible for them.

Previously, loan products you weren't eligible for were simply hidden, often leaving you to guess why. Now, you will see all available loan products listed in the Finance > Available Loans tab.

Products you don't qualify for are clearly marked as "Unavailable" and greyed out. More importantly, we now tell you exactly why you are ineligible directly on the row. This makes it clear what requirements you're missing, whether it's related to your company's net worth, your AOC level, or anything else.

We've also improved the logic for taking out multiple loans. You are now only prevented from taking out a loan if you currently have an active one of the same type.

This means that as soon as you fully repay a loan, you are immediately eligible to take out another one from the same product (provided you still meet all other criteria). You are no longer permanently blocked after using a loan product once.

A More Realistic Net Worth

Your company's net worth calculation has been updated to provide a more accurate picture of your financial health.

Previously, net worth was calculated as your total assets plus your cash balance. It now also subtracts your total outstanding loan balances. This change means your net worth directly reflects your company's equity, giving you a truer measure of your value and influencing your eligibility for new financing.

Bank Loan Overhaul

The bank's entire portfolio of loan products has been overhauled to provide more strategic financing options.

The original 'Kickstart Fund' and 'Expansion Fund' have been re-balanced with new, lower interest rates, updated terms, and clearer eligibility requirements. We have also added several new loan products tied to your company's net worth, allowing for more specialized financing as your company grows.

This update gives you more flexible tools to manage your cash flow, whether you're just starting out or planning a major expansion.