Route and flight reports. Pick any completed flight and see passengers and revenue by
cabin, local versus connecting traffic, fuel, crew, maintenance, airport fees,
distribution, and what the flight actually contributed. Every route now keeps 4, 12 and
48 week history for flights, seats, passengers, load factor, fares, costs and on-time.
UI scaling, 80% to 200%, in Settings > Display. If you play on a large or high
resolution screen the interface is no longer tiny.
Seven more aircraft, including the Cessna 402C and Tecnam P2012 Traveller. The
catalogue now runs from piston twins up to the A380.
The estimator has been substantially reworked after a player stress-tested the New York
airports and found it inventing traffic that could not exist.
- It now knows about roads. Demand between two airports accounts for how far it is to
drive between them, so JFK to LaGuardia is no longer a market. Islands, fjords and
anywhere the road goes the long way round keep their flying.
- A winding road counts for more than its length, because a mountain road is slower
than a motorway.
- Missing data is now treated as information. European routes below the reporting
threshold are held small instead of being invented.
- Estimates for regions without published route data were about 6.5x too low. That
covered most of Asia, Africa, South America, Russia, Canada and Australia.
- Norwegian domestic routes were missing from the world entirely. Restored, so northern
Norway is a real network again.
Certification programmes are much shorter. Average two weeks, five at most, down from
roughly eight and sixteen. Difficulty should come from what a certification demands, not
from waiting.
ETOPS is now based on how remote a route actually is rather than raw distance, so
transcontinental flights that are never far from an airfield no longer need it.
Direct composition is now a setting under Display, for the alt-tab ghost windows some
players saw in fullscreen.
Route cards show the real haul category instead of the frequency obligation flag.
Very long haul markets, above about 6,000 km, are still under-estimated. Next on the
list.