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Changed
- Support staff recruitment is now 60 times faster and starts during the opening month, helping dispatch and ground teams catch up with your fleet sooner.
- Ordinary qualified support hires can start work immediately. Maintenance and management onboarding takes one month, while specialist service and flight-crew training retain their requirements.
- Automatic support hiring checks for restored funding every day and resumes eligible campaigns within your hiring budget and cash limits.
Fixed
- Maintenance keeps active checks assigned to their hangar lines and moves queued visits to available lines, so free capacity can be used without interrupting work already underway.
- Loyalty promotion screens remain stable when sponsorship information is unavailable.
- Inbox filing handles only messages that are still open, preventing failures from outdated selections.
- Completing a used-aircraft purchase no longer reopens the negotiation.
- Fleet shows the Set as fill-in button directly for available aircraft, and lets you switch the reserve designation off again.
- Flights with a stranded or missing aircraft now try a compatible available spare first, including a positioning flight and a reasonable delay when needed. If recovery is not feasible, normal delay and cancellation rules still apply.
- A stranded aircraft can return home after a spare takes over its flights, preventing the same disruption from carrying into later rotations.
- Connected outbound and return flights keep their crew across midnight and time-zone changes, preventing false crew-conflict and missing-crew cancellations.
- Delayed inbound crews are checked against their arrival and turnaround time, preventing false out-of-position failures on the return flight.
- Replacement crews stay assigned through the connected return. Qualified reserves can cover conflicting later duties so a delayed current rotation can finish.
- Existing crew assignments are checked again when conditions improve, instead of remaining unusable because of an earlier conflict.
- Knock-on delays are no longer added repeatedly. Recoverable returns can depart after midnight, and curfew checks no longer count the same delay twice.
Cancellation recovery note: These changes address unnecessary crew-conflict,
out-of-position and no-aircraft cancellations, including chains of cancellations
after one disrupted flight. Recovery still needs suitable aircraft and qualified,
rested crew, and must respect maintenance, airport restrictions and available slots.
Full changelog