Improvements

• Edmonton airports (YXD / YEG) data updated:
  • YEG opens in 1960, prior to that YXD is the primary airport.
  • After 1960 YXD remains open until 1996 as a secondary small domestic airport.
• Improved the e-mail notifications of upcoming games.
• New users now get a short one-time welcome e-mail after account activation.
• Added better tools for admin to plan future game worlds.
• Several backend code quality updates in various systems and modules.

Fixes

• Paying back part of a loan early did not always work correctly.
• Aircraft's engine option could be announced before the aircraft itself had launched in a game world.
• Corrected an incorrect airport data for Minsk that was distorting nearby route demand.
• Minor internal fixes to Statistics and Route Planning pages to avoid potential display errors.
• Scheduling search results could show aircraft with no visible connection to your search term. The aircraft registration / MSN is now highlighted when an aircraft matches by its own details (e.g. registration or seat configuration) rather than a route.
• Minor fixes to account handling when using social media logins.

New features

• Airbus A350 data update:
  • A350-900ULR and A350-1000ULR added (these are just weight variants of normal -900/-1000 with added fuel tanks, but they are added as own models since they're marketed with the ULR name).
  • Climb/descent performance and all fuel usage values updated (AirwaySim Performance Model v.2).
  • Production launch and start dates updated.
  • A350-1000 max passenger capacity updated (480).
  • Range values updated.
  • Cargo capacity values updated.
  • Engine variant names clarified.
  • New +15.0 tn MTOW weight variant for A350-900 added.
  • New +8.0 tn and +11.0 tn MTOW weight variants for A350-1000 added.
  • These updates are applied to all future game worlds, and also currently running History and the Future and The Age of Flight games.
• Airbus A330-900neo data update:
  • Max passenger capacity updated (465).

Improvements

• Freighter/cargo aircraft conversions are now limited to a maximum number of simultaneous conversions per airline, scaled to your maintenance staff size, to prevent unrealistic mass-conversion of stored fleets.

New features

• New Bankruptcy & Restructuring page:
  • The page has a fully new and mobile-friendly user interface, divided into different tabs based on the desired action.
  • The first view is a new "Financial Health" tab which contains a brief overview of the airline's financials and clearly shows details if a bankruptcy warnings exist.
  • The airline closure actions are in own navigation tabs, and now more clearly display the outcomes of each chosen action.
  • To reduce accidential airline closures, the final confirmation dialog now requires a strong positive confirmation from the user where you have to type in your actual airline name to confirm the airline closure.
  • If your bankruptcy restarts limit (5 per game) is reached, you have now the option to reset the restart limit by paying the game joining fee (usually 5 Credits) directly from the Bankruptcy page, without having to leave and re-join the game world.
  • The old Bankruptcy page remains available as a backup for a limited time.
  • The airline Restructuring features will be added in later updates as part of this new page.

Improvements

• Added New Ishigaki Airport (Japan) to database.

Fixes

• Ukrainian plane lover achievement now unlocks from Ukraine's actual in-game independence date (August 1991) instead of a fixed January 1992 cutoff.
• Old Nagoya airport IATA code changed to NKM.
• Aircraft upgrade installations (e.g. winglets) could complete early if the maintenance action was cancelled. The upgrade cancellation is now disabled.

New features

• Aircraft conversion dialog now lets you choose a seating configuration for the new model. The cost of the selected configuration is added to the conversion price.
• New Bug Reports tool taken into use.
• New Admin area to manage game worlds. This update brings our game admin control panel to current v.2.0 standards, and allows us to better develop new features.

Improvements

• Backend technical changes to used aircraft market functionality.
• Minor improvements how used market brokers update the C/D checks of planes being listed to the market.
• Route Planning pages now show the seats per flight in the airline timetable listing.
• Improved error messages in Scheduling route Move/Swap functions.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the used aircraft weekly purchase limit lasted one day too long.
• Scheduling sort order did not always work when certain filters were selected.
• If user account was pending deletion due inactivity, and was restored by the user, the achievements were already lost (issue now fixed and all data restored).
• Minor tweaks and fixes to dark mode colors where still missing.
• Site notifications (at top-right corner) were not sorted properly.
• Minor website layout fixes.

New features

• Upcoming Games page added to the main website.

Improvements

• Boeing 747-400M added, and available in any future game worlds.

Fixes

• Scheduling: Move Schedule dialog incorrectly showed seat configuration options for cargo-only planes.
• Scheduling: Close Route dialog did not offer the option to keep all airport slots.
• Scheduling: The auto-refresh function (when coming in from another tab, and scheduling data being changed) no longer jumps to the top, or clears your search filters when you switch back to that window. A notification of old data is shown instead.
• Fixed mobile legacy pages being cut off on some devices on device rotation.
• Bristol 170 Mk 1 could not be converted to Bristol 170 Mk 31E or Bristol 170 Mk 32 due to backend config error.
• Lockheed L-1049C could not be converted to L-1049F due to backend config error.
• Fixed production line ending configuration for de Havilland Canada DHC-8-200A/200B.
• Various other minor fixes in the backend code.