A new gameplay option (Quick-load Fleet Page) has been added that should help speed up the fleet overview page load times for airlines with large fleet sizes. This disables the refresh of aircraft location/status when you load the page, so if you enable this option, your aircraft locations may not reflect the most recent status until the system updates them in the background (every ~5 mins).

An auto-renew option has been added for leased gates. Users can set the default behavior in their profile page, and control individual gates via the gate management page (in the extend lease section).

The Airbus A321neoXLR has been added to the game and is now available to be leased or purchased

We recently had unexpected server downtime, however the game should be back up and running smoothly. The financial transactions are currently backed up, and will need about 6 hours to catch up and process everything that has been on pause for the last few days. Your ledgers should eventually update. We have identified the cause of the downtime and implemented a system change to prevent similar downtime from occurring in the future.

A few updates today:

1. Auto-generated used aircraft auctions now have a random end time.
2. Fixed an error in average price calculations on the route research page where the average price would display as only the bag fees, in cases where flights with 0 passengers had been operated.
3. Fixed a related error in the demand formula where bag fees were not included when calculating the average ticket price.
4. Fixed an error in the airline awareness calculations which would result in an inflated awareness early on, causing a subsequent drop in awareness as the airline aged and hit certain milestones. Airline awareness growth should now be more linear (Expect a one-time "reset" of airline awareness on Feb 21 to correct the values).
5. DST database updated to correct the time in countries in the southern hemisphere.

A full game reset has occured. Full changelog below:

1. Fixed countries with special characters in their names not selectable as HQ when starting a new airline.
2. Fixed incorrect delivery dates when leasing more than 5 aircraft at once on your first order.
3. Corrected Embraer ERJ model naming scheme, which resulted in broken image links.
4. Removed the 10% demand bonus for routes where an airline is the sole operator.
5. Removed Mitsubishi SpaceJet from the game.
6. Updated used market spawn probability for all aircraft based on real world data.
7. Changed spawn rules for used aircraft as follows:

a. Game will not spawn used aircraft introduced less than 1 year ago (previously was 10 years).
b. Spawn probability for aircraft introduced within the last 5 years will be 1/10th that of all other aircraft.

Yesterday we suffered a hardware failure on one of our servers. Unfortunately this resulted in corrupted backups and the last several months of data was lost. At this time, the game has been restored to functionality and rolled back to 1am on May 10.

Given the situation, we feel it is best to perform a full game reset. This will be done sometime this weekend (August 28/29). Once we have a more exact timeline concerning the reset, we will announce it.

Important information:
Anyone who made an account after May 10 will have to register again. Please use the exact same username as the first time or else you may run into problems.

If you had a forum account it will automatically merge as long as you sign up using the same email, otherwise we will have to manually merge the accounts.

If you had an issue tracker account, same as above but it might still require manual merging.

If you run into any issues logging in to your game, forum, or issue tracker accounts please let us know. You can post a message in the #support channel on our discord, on our forums, or email [email protected]

The game has been opened back up, so feel free to play the game/sandbox/experiment as you wish, keeping in mind all progress will be reset back to zero this weekend.

A few updates have been applied today:

1. Length of time required for A checks has been reduced.
2. Planes will now appear on the used market at random times throughout the day rather than every 2 hours on the hour.
3. A bugfix has been applied to address incorrect awareness calculations relating to marketing spend and sum of destination passengers.
4. You can now view the cost and duration of the maintenance checks for aircraft listed on the used market.

Today we have updated all of the aircraft statistics in accordance with the announcement made on February 6. You can access a range restriction worksheet on our forums and in the pinned messages on our Discord server.

Changelog:
1. Aircraft statistics have been updated across the board.
2. Backend maintenance performed on our database server.
3. Additional spend options added for airline marketing, to allow growth up to 100% reputation.

Recently it had come to our attention that many of the aircraft statistics were incorrect. We have now completed the update of the aircraft statistics, however a lot of the changes would significantly impact existing fleets.

We essentially have three options:

1. Add all the new stats now (this could cause major changes that could affect your operations dramatically. We would make the changes in 1-2 weeks time)
2. Add all the new stats at the next major reset
3. Selectively add new stats where it is better than now and leave ones that aren’t better or are worse out until next reset.

Let us know which option you would prefer. We have a discussion created on our forums or you can join us in the discord server.