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The mini-game Long Haul Challenge has ended, with play time from February to April, and here are the end results.

Details of the next game worlds will be announced soon.

According to the normal monthly rotation schedule the Beginner's World #1 game has been opened today.

This game series is aimed for all newbies and other players wishing to test different playing styles in an easier environment. The two beginner scenarios follow always the standard easy settings and same time frame as the previous beginner scenarios, and they restart about once every month.

Click over to the Game Area to play!

The new Beginner's World #2 scenario has been just opened.

This game series is aimed for all newbies and other players wishing to test different playing styles in an easier environment. The two beginner scenarios follow always the standard easy settings and same time frame as the previous beginner scenarios, and they restart about once every month.

This time the BW#2 scenario has new settings. The time era is now from 2015 to 2025!

According to the normal monthly rotation schedule the Beginner's World #1 game has been opened today.

This game series is aimed for all newbies and other players wishing to test different playing styles in an easier environment. The two beginner scenarios follow always the standard easy settings and same time frame as the previous beginner scenarios, and they restart about once every month.

Click over to the Game Area to play!

The Long Haul Challenge game world is now open!

» Join Long Haul Challenge

The Challenge game series have a short play duration and special settings. This game focuses purely on the long haul traffic from continent to another with large airplanes such as the B747.

The settings of this scenario are:

• Overall economic environment is easy.
  
  
• Only aircraft in size class very large can be used.
  
  
• All airports in the world are included, but the travel demand is only for longhaul traffic (so there are many smaller airports with no traffic at all).
  
  
• No geographical airport basing restrictions - open additional bases anywhere in the world.
  
  
• Game starts on year 2017 and runs until 2030.
  
  
• Alliances are enabled. Achievements can be earned.
  
  
• One simulated day is 25 minutes long.

Note also that the easy start (pre-created airline) is not available in this game world (purely because the easy start system is not available for longhaul airline starts). So please take care when choosing the base airport where you start - make sure it has enough longhaul passenger demand.

Remember also that the initial passenger demand is rather low. It will grow rapidly over time.

This is a new type of game world (a pure longhaul simulation has not been played before) and we'd like to hear your thoughts about this game concept. You can use the game forum for feedback.

The next AirwaySim game world - Long Haul Challenge - opens on this Friday, February 24th 2017 at 15 UTC.

The Challenge game series have a short play duration and special settings. This game focuses purely on the long haul traffic from continent to another with large airplanes such as the B747.

You can already pre-join this upcoming game world. Go to the Game Area and you will find this new game waiting for you there. You can reserve a spot to this new game and we will e-mail you to remind of the game world's opening.

The settings of this scenario are:

• Overall economic environment is easy.
  
  
• Only aircraft in size class very large can be used.
  
  
• All airports in the world are included, but the travel demand is only for longhaul traffic (so there are many smaller airports with no traffic at all).
  
  
• No geographical airport basing restrictions - open additional bases anywhere in the world.
  
  
• Game starts on year 2017 and runs until 2030.
  
  
• Alliances are enabled. Achievements can be earned.
  
  
• One simulated day is 25 minutes long.

Note also that the easy start (pre-created airline) is not available in this game world (purely because the easy start system is not available for longhaul airline starts). So please take care when choosing the base airport where you start - make sure it has enough longhaul passenger demand.

Beginner's World #2 has restarted again today. The settings and other details follow the standard pattern for this recurring easy & short game world.

This game series is aimed for all newbies and other players wishing to test different playing styles in an easier environment. The two beginner scenarios follow always the standard easy settings and same time frame as the previous beginner scenarios, and they restart about once every month.

The Regional Challenge mini scenario has ended, and here are the final statistics.

The next game worlds to start at AirwaySim will be:

• Beginner's World #2 - opens on Saturday, February 18th
• Long Haul Challenge - a new mini scenario focusing only on long-haul traffic. Opens on Friday February 24th.

Stats of the Regional Challenge game:

The new Game World #3 is now open and welcomes all new airline managers!

» Join the game here

Game World #3 is our dedicated "Modern Times" scenario that focuses on managing the airlines in the present and future era. The overall play duration of the Game World #3 is about 10 months.

This new scenario utilizes the new settings with a play time extended to year 2036!

This game world will follow the standard settings for long AirwaySim games:

• Standard difficulty level
  
  
• All airports, all aircraft models (including the "prototypes") and all features are included.
  
  
• Time span: 1998 - 2036
  
  
• Game's speed is 30 minutes per day (faster than the usual 35 mins per day).
  
  
• Fuel prices are customized and may not follow real world history.
  
  
• Passenger demand levels follow the standard realistic settings but are lower at the very start of the game and will gradually grow.
  
  
• The aircraft production rates and amount of airport slots are higher compared to the standard "realworld" setting.

If it has been a while since you started at early stages in a major AirwaySim games, here are a few reminders and tips:

• The game clock is paused for the first day and will start moving after 24 hrs.
  
  
• There are plenty of used aircraft available to begin with, but the used aircraft market will soon become limited and the popular aircraft types are sold/leased very quickly. Take care when picking the aircraft you plan to use. The used aircraft market will refresh several times during the first static 24 hour day.
  
  
• Be patient with the route sales figures since your Route Image grows slowly. Do not spend all your cash on planes at once, remember to leave a good reserve. It takes time to gain profits and there might be unexpected early problems..
  
  
• Some popular airports, or other small airports, will for sure become limited on airport slots soon. This is normal and you should use larger aircraft or other airports in that case.
  
  
• Consider joining an alliance from early stages of the game, they are great resources for improving your game play (tips and help from fellow players).

All set! Move over to the Game Area and join the new game!

The new Game World #3 will open on Tuesday January 31st

Game World #3 is our dedicated "Modern Times" scenario that focuses on managing the airlines in the present and future era. The overall play duration of the Game World #3 is about 10 months.

This new scenario utilizes the new settings with a play time extended to year 2036!

You can already pre-join this upcoming game world. Go to the Game Area and you will find this new game waiting for you there.

The opening time of this game world will be at 12.00 UTC on January 31st. That's 07.00@NYC, 12.00@London, and 21:00@Tokyo. And as usual the first 24 hours of the game is static and the game clock will start to move after that.

This game world will follow the standard settings for long AirwaySim games:

• Standard difficulty level
  
  
• All airports, all aircraft models (including the "prototypes") and all features are included.
  
  
• Time span: 1998 - 2036, 30 minutes per game day.
  
  
• Alliances are available to be formed from the first day.
  
  
• Fuel prices are customized and may not follow real world history. Random world events are included too.

» Pre-join Game World #3

The modern times AirwaySim scenario, Game World #3, has ended. The game world lasted for nearly 11 months, from 1995 to 2030.

A total 49 players lasted it all through from day 1 without bankruptcies - congratulations!

The full final statistics and results are below.

We hope that you enjoyed this game world, and see you at next AirwaySim game starting next week (Tuesday January 31st). The next Game World #3 will be played from 1998 to 2036 (with the new extended settings!). You can pre-join the new Game World #3 already at the Game Area!

The Embraer 175-E2, 190-E2 and 195-E2 aircraft models have been added to our database.

This model will be available on all new game worlds and the current Game Worlds #1, #2 and #4. Deliveries start from 2018, depending on the model.

Please note that these are considered prototype models. Some of the range, payload and fuel data is not fully accurate due to the limited real data available.

At the same time the data of other E-Jets have been slightly updated too (these changes are effective only in any new game worlds).

According to the normal monthly rotation schedule the Beginner's World #1 game has been opened today.

This game series is aimed for all newbies and other players wishing to test different playing styles in an easier environment. The two beginner scenarios follow always the standard easy settings and same time frame as the previous beginner scenarios, and they restart about once every month.

Click over to the Game Area to play!

It's time to welcome the new year and here is a preliminary list of upcoming AirwaySim scenarios for January and February:

• Beginner's World #1, January 8th 2017
• Game World #3, January 31st 2017
• Beginner's World #2, February 18th 2017
• "Challenge game" (theme to be announced later), starts near the end of February 2017

And if you missed our traditional Christmas promo, try out the HAPPY2017 code when purchasing Credits: 17% off, and valid for two days (till Jan 2nd 2017 12 UTC).

At this time of the year it is the time to thank all of our users at AirwaySim and wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We hope that you have enjoyed this year and that all your virtual aircraft have been running on time ;)

As part of our holiday traditions, please use the special discount code to receive 20% OFF from all your Credits purchases. The code is XMAS16 and it is valid until Dec 25th 2016, 23.59 UTC.

See you at the online airline sim games at AirwaySim and have fun!

Greetings,

Sami, AirwaySim's Developer