New features

• Dark mode feature is now available.
  • You can swap the theme from account dropdown menu. You must be logged in to view this option.
  • This feature is not yet considered to be fully complete and final, so please send feedback on how to improve the styling. Especially the old in-game pages (of game v.1.5) may not be perfect, but are mostly usable.

Improvements

• Various minor site UI tuning in new user account creation and account password handling.

Improvements

• Changelog moved to the main website (About the Game --> Changelog).
• Text editors (like airline description) allow paste in markdown (.md) format for automatic formatting.
• Updated several backend script libraries.
• Updated several frontend UI libraries. Mostly no visible changes.
• Cookie consent dialog updated (you need to re-approve).
• Changed the provider of the "Dropzone" file upload module.

Fixes

• Forum PM notifications could sometimes lead to error 500 at the game interface.

New features

• Complete rebuild of the in-game aircraft image library, covering all ~700 aircraft variants.
• Higher resolution images for a noticeably cleaner and sharper UI.
• Consistent quality baseline across all aircraft, including replacements for many older low-quality, blurry, or black-and-white images.
• Correct variant accuracy: Each aircraft variant has its own dedicated image, matching real-world differences where relevant.
• New sources: Over 200 images have been re-sourced for better quality and better technical accuracy.
• Era-appropriate visual styles so the look evolves naturally through aviation history.
• The update includes new internal automation tooling and workflow for better image management and source tracking.

Other improvements

• Dynamic manufacturer names can now handle complex changes. Example: DHC-7 fleet was first produced by de Havilland Canada, then acquired by Bombardier, then some of the Bombardier's production went to Viking Air, and it later renamed to De Havilland Canada when rest of the production was consolidated.
• More manufacturer corporate data is added to the Dynamic manufacturer names feature. These include changes of the Canadian aircraft industry (DHC, Bombardier, VikingAir), British aircraft industry (Armstrong, de Havilland, Vickers, Bristol, Hawker, BAC, Scottish Aviation, British Aerospace, BAE Systems), French aircraft industry (Sud, Nord, Aérospatiale) and remaining US manufacturers (Fairchild, Swearingen, Lockeed, Martin). With these updates the Fleet Commonality v.2.0 is now completed and the full historical logic for manufacturer changes (and associated costs) is now present.
• The aircraft manufacturer name changes are also now posted in Dashboard's Aircraft News.
• Improved used aircraft price listing mechanism for AI broker listings.
• Further upgrades to our development stack by modernizing development environment, versioning tools and project management structure.

Fixes

• Country of manufacturing was not correctly shown for A220 fleet.
• Various small fixes in the backend systems to keep the code clean and up-to-date.
• Nominal range value for aircraft from used market did not show correctly if an upgrade (winglets etc.) was already installed to the aircraft and seating configuration was being changed during the purchase (display issue only).
• Fixed an issue where automatic A/B checks could be skipped when the airline was beyond the credit limit and automatic C/D check scheduling was attempted but could not start due to insufficient funds.
• Fixed additional base airport rules for airlines from the Netherlands and France prior to EU Open Skies.

New features

• Added new "About the Game" section to the website with several pages of information and details about the simulation.

Improvements

• News highlight announcement banner added to site header.
• Minor visual updates to "Game Subscriptions", "Game Achievements", "Billing History" and Shop's "Order History" pages.
• Achievements page is visible also to guest visitors.
• Game Area index page has now a small welcome message at the top to guide new users (can be hidden from the close icon). Also the 2nd level (sidebar) navigation is added there to improve the structure.
• Various minor tuning to layout, information, and visual cues in various places to give more information to visitors not familiar with the simulation.
• Updated various backend and maintenance tools in the Admin area.
• Updated logging systems of the backend processes.
• Technical changes to the system resources build process.
• Several scripts and systems of the Core website updated.
• Some refactoring done to the game data loading and listing systems for better code maintainability.
• Social media announcement posts styling refreshed slightly.

Fixes

• Contact Us page did not always load if clicked from inside an active game world.
• Notifications of unread in-game messages did not always appear.
• Game Subscriptions page confirmation popup did not close properly after ending a game subscription.

Improvements

• Game worlds list ("departure board") added to AirwaySim website front page.
• Major component change to the core website: Font Awesome icons changed to new Web Awesome component library, allowing easier development of unified UI elements in the future.
• Sim build version, and page load speed information is now also visible to logged-in users at the site's footer (as "nice-to-know" info, and in case of any problems).
• A few minor technical improvements made to user's login session handling for better loading times.
• Upgraded our local development environment to a new software stack, and implemented a set of new project management tools.
• Some internal database selection logic changes made for better security/configurability.

Fixes

• Fleet Commonality Calculator failed to work if selected engine had internal ID number >1000 (misconfiguration).
• Airline HQed in the Netherlands Antilles was unable to open additional bases in mainland NL.
• Base Airports page did not show the clarifying text that French (mainland) based airlines could open bases also in the French overseas departments.
• Minor layout fixes to the main navigation structure.