The revamped routes system has been implemented. I've done my best to make sure that it all works as it should, but if you notice any issues please let me know. 

A few things:

1) Multiple routes assigned to a single aircraft is now supported. However, any subsequent routes will not schedule themselves until the previous route has finished in its entirety. Keep in mind the game schedules routes every 10 minutes on the hour, so if your first route finishes at, say 12:41, you need to make sure the second route departs at 12:50 or after. Otherwise it will not get scheduled. If there is a conflict, i.e. if the routes overlap each other, how the system handles that is that only the first route will get scheduled.

2) If you choose to make the route only fly certain days, the route will not get scheduled until the day it is supposed to fly. So if it is currently Wednesday, and the route is set to fly on Thursday but not on Wednesday, the route will not appear in your scheduled flights until midnight on Thursday, local time at the departure airport.

3) Flight numbers are now defined on the edit route page. You can type a flight number in the upper-right hand corner of each flight. To configure ticket prices on a per-flight basis, you still need to go to the flight numbers page. I've made a button on the route management page that makes that a bit easier to get to.

4) One known issue... lets say a flight on your route is ready at 23:58, and you choose 00:00 departure for the next flight. This will throw an error on the route edit page, because 00:00 is < 23:58 and it thinks departure is before ready time. But the scheduling system should pick that up and schedule the flights correctly, by adding a day. I tested this and it worked fine but let me know if you run into any issues. I'll try to work on getting the error message to go away in this particular scenario.

Other than that it works pretty much the same... except it should be a lot more user friendly and just sleeker overall.

Hope everyone is having or had a good Christmas.

Happy Holidays you guys

have noticed recently, that when I manually add a flight, two aircraft fly the route at the exact same time, please see screenshots

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The press release allows you to type a 30 characters title. Though its mostly enough, but sometimes it doesn't. Is it possible to make a longer one?

Hi

The World Airport Map is not working

Thanks.

Just wanted to give everybody a heads-up on the upcoming maintenance periods.

The game will be going down for maintenance twice in the coming weeks - once for the implementation of the new routes system, and again for the server upgrade/transfer. As of now I am not sure on exact dates, but once I know more I will post it here. The server transfer will likely take place before January 17th as that is when my hosting plan expires, and I'd like to get everything moved over prior to that date so I don't have to pay for another month. 

The maintenance period for the routes system should not be very long, maybe an hour. However the server transfer could render the game down for as much as 24 hours because we have to wait for the DNS to propagate across the world and that could take some time.

On the airline overview table, would it be possible to see total loans outstanding also?

How do you start your airline? How do you select your first route? How much loan you borrowed? Then what configuration you used? I guess these information are important to new players here. Unk said before that he wanted the beta players to make a youtube video showing how the game works, but then nothing happened...

I noticed when looking through my financials this morning that several flights were shown as landing multiple times, and getting a landing fee charged for each time.  I'm not sure if there's a time delay on when these messages show up, but I checked the gates around 0830 and I didn't see any of the airports with more than one gate being used, one of them even had all the gates free.  The one in particular that stood out was NCE.  I only have one route that flies there, and I was charged for more landing fees than it flies there each day.

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