New features

• Airline Description, Alliance Description and Airline Notepad have a new text editor, allowing you to style the text with basic styling such as bolding, underlining, centering and lists.

Improvements

• Improved a few error messages in the core website.
• Technical improvements to the handling of modal dialog windows in the new UI.
• Updated again some backend libraries.

Fixes

• Oversupply warning did not reset if route was "cargo only".
• Route Editor did not show correct payload limitation in the very rare case of route having an additional technical stopover airport where route payload limitation was caused by runway performance at the second leg departure airport and where the aircraft in question had an internal engine/weight fuel usage performance multiplier other than "1.0".
• Game Time to Real Time tooltip info conversion was not correct at New Aircraft ordering page.

New features

• Company Notepad, Alliance Description and Aircraft Nickname fields updated to UTF-8 format, allowing storage of various special characters. 🛫😎

Improvements

• Made some re-structuring on how some game content / scripts are loaded, for better performance for the future.
• Compacted the side "filters" menu a bit in mobile, to make all content fit better to a small screen.
• Updated some backend libraries.
• Minor technical changes to incomesheet's storage design, and to aircraft data storage format.
• Changed the UI form validation library due to published CVE.

Fixes

• Used aircraft market cleanup function did not run properly in the Age of Flight game.
• Fixed occasionally occurring cache file permissions issue at the backend scripts.
• Fixed missing airline alliance definition from bankruptcy function at Game Subscriptions page.
• Fixed a route editor's database issue occurring during new games' first day.

This round of updates is again mainly focused on backend updates and migrating certain key components to the AirwaySim 2.0 system.

New features

• Added a new "Delete Alliance" functionality to the Alliance Control Panel. This function is visible / available if you are the last remaining member in an alliance. (n.b. the alliance is still automatically closed if the last managing member closes his airline - each alliance must have at least one managing member at all times!)
• Alliance closure related features upgraded to v.2.0 standard (completely new code). No visible changes to users.
• Added real-world alliance name list to the blocked airline/alliance names database.
• The game subscription billing module is upgraded to v.2.0 with a new code and new look for the e-mail notifications. The billing happens now every day at 12.00 UTC.

Improvements

• Some technical streamlining to the new alliance features. No visible changes to users.
• More technical tuning to the new backend processes. No visible changes to users.
• Technical upgrade to the database structure of the airports infrastructure expansion system. No visible changes to users.
• Fully migrated all remaining parts of handling logos, liveries and icons of airlines and alliances to the new system also in the old UI pages. No visible changes to users.

Fixes

• Tooltip popups were too eager to open if there were many on the same page and mouse was moved rapidly over many of them.
• Tooltip popup at scheduling page on mobile did not respect display boundaries.

Improvements

• Further updates to backend backup processes, migrating this system fully to the new backend also for the game databases.
• Updated the real-world airline name list (i.e. blocked airline names) from current IATA airline members list.
• Route minumum length limitations removed from route editor.

Fixes

• Used aircraft generation was called too often.
• Alliance creation did not assign private forum permissions if the third founding member joined after the alliance was already formed.
• Fixed a server configuration issue that rarely could cause error 500 at some of the site's pages.
• Achievement icons were not displaying at game's final results page.
• Daily airline status e-mails were not moving out.
• Time converter for pop-ups (e.g. aircraft delivery time estimate) did not take into account the user's time zone (after switch to the new website).
• News of new alliance foundation did not always post to Dashboard.
• Fixed a couple of incorrect page redirects after accepting/declining an alliance invitation (depending on the status of the alliance).
• Alliance Control Panel's application decline reason textbox changed to normal text input (without rows) to prevent submitting the form when pressing 'enter'.

New features

• A new backend calculation system of AirwaySim v.2.0 has been taken into use. This is a complete technical refresh of the server-side calculation system of the simulation, and is using the same & latest technology that is used in our new website and new game pages, also allowing more flexible management and monitoring of the server-side calculations, and enabling us to build new features with more ease. At first the new backend calculation will handle:
  • The AI brokers' used aircraft market refreshes (posting of the planes to the market, managing their listing prices, and removing them if they are not selling).
  • Some other AI brokers' stored aircraft management (making cargo conversions, and scrapping very old planes).
  • The airport slot generation (random slot increases at the starting phase of the game, and later the slot changes after airport infrastructure expansions).
  • There are no visible changes to the users / simulation with this update since the basic functionality remains the same with some small improvements / tweaks.

Improvements

• Removed Google Analytics.
• Improvements to the site's backend maintenance / cleanup processes.
• Improvements to error reporting / alerting systems at the site backend.

Fixes

• Removing aircraft from sale on used market did not work on Apple's devices.
• French airlines could not open bases in some of the French territories (French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Wallis and Futuna).