YOU DESIGN THE CABINS. Every aircraft now has a cabin you can change: first, business, premium economy, and economy. Pick a ready-made layout, from high density to a long-haul flagship, or fine-tune seat by seat. Each option shows what it would earn a day on that aircraft's route, after the real cost of every extra passenger and cabin crew member, and how long the refit takes to pay for itself. Pack a short busy hop, sell room on a long-haul trunk, and watch rivals: a cramped cabin loses riders on a contested route. Refit right away or at the next heavy check, or order new aircraft in the layout you want. Cabin data comes from US airline fare filings and real seat maps. Seat configuration is part of the full game. 22 MORE US AIRPORTS — 469 IN ALL Burbank, Long Beach, Ontario, Palm Springs, Santa Barbara, Fresno, El Paso, Tucson, Colorado Springs, Aspen, Jackson Hole, Wichita, Dayton, Knoxville, Greenville–Spartanburg, Savannah, Myrtle Beach, Albany, Sarasota, Pensacola, Destin, and Key West. Each has its real runways and traffic, and the small ones behave like the real thing: 737s fit into Key West and Jackson Hole, while Aspen takes regional jets only. Long Beach, Burbank, Aspen, Jackson Hole, and Key West keep their night curfews. YOUR ALERTS, YOUR WAY Tap the gear in Alerts to choose which alerts slow the game down: breakdowns, crew problems, offers and bids, training, and aging aircraft. Alerts you turn off still wait in Alerts and Ops; they just won't interrupt you. The slow-down banner now links straight to these settings. Also in 1.12: • Every airport runs on its real local time, and the airport card shows it • Airlines you buy arrive with enough crews to keep flying • Release a crew you no longer need from the Crews tab • The Marketplace shows each aircraft's running cost and how thirsty it is on fuel, with real burn figures • Tap a crowded spot on the map, like New York, and choose which airport you meant • Airports without their own city photo now show an airport scene that matches the climate • Rate the game or send feedback from the start screen Fixes: • The upgrade screen's close button could be hidden behind the slow-down banner

EVERY FLIGHT NOW TAKES ITS REAL TIME. Legs used to take the same time no matter how far they went. Now every flight is timed by its distance and the aircraft flying it: Nashville to Cleveland is about an hour and a half gate to gate, New York to Tokyo more than twelve. Turnarounds match the aircraft too, from a quick half hour for a turboprop to an hour and a half for a widebody. Airports now go quiet overnight. Nothing departs between 11 pm and 6 am local time, so a short-haul jet flies a realistic six to nine legs a day. Evening long-hauls still leave and land in the morning. Crews who've had ten hours off start the day fresh. REAL FARES, REAL ECONOMICS Fares are rebuilt from published airfare data and what airlines report earning per mile, plus the extra revenue beyond the ticket: bags, seats, and loyalty. Long-haul widebodies now earn what they should, and very short hops carry the traffic they really get, since plenty of people drive. Your existing routes will earn differently, so it's worth a fresh look at your network. 62 NEW AIRPORTS — 447 IN ALL Beijing Daxing, Shanghai Hongqiao, Chengdu Tianfu, Seoul Gimpo and Jeju (the world's busiest route), Bangkok Don Mueang, Bali, Phuket, London Luton, Washington National, Punta Cana, Malta, Cyprus and more. Twenty countries and territories join the map for the first time, from Cuba, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic to Georgia, Armenia, Sri Lanka, Laos, and Mongolia. Rival airlines now base where they really do: Xiamen Airlines in Xiamen, American at Washington National, easyJet at Luton, Caribbean Airlines in Port of Spain. Also in 1.11: • Every new airline gets a first customer, in every region, on a route you can actually profit from • Optional reminders: allow notifications and the game lets you know when you're close to your next hub or a plane is waiting for a route • The maintenance list scrolls, and a new "C & D only" view finds your next heavy check fast • Labor actions: "Wait out the strike" answers every delayed flight at once, and "Wait on all" clears a stack of crew cards • Airworthiness directives: "Expedite all" or "Repair all" handles every grounded aircraft of the type, even those still flying to their next gate • Crew advice now counts 2.2 crews per aircraft as full coverage, to match the new schedules • Rival airlines are valued by how much their fleets really fly • The upgrade screen now shows how your own airline is doing • Baku, Tbilisi, and Yerevan are now part of Europe, Mallorca counts as a holiday destination, and Beijing and Shanghai traffic is updated Fixes: • An aircraft grounded while waiting for a crew could stay grounded with no card to resolve it • The maintenance list couldn't scroll on iPhone, which hid "Show all" • Your first customer's offer could disappear if the app closed before you accepted it • Most new airlines starting in Europe or Asia got no first customer at all • The Expedite button showed a flat price that could differ from what you were charged • Route arrows in some offers showed up as an emoji • Four Caribbean airlines had no home hub

SCOUT A ROUTE BEFORE YOU BUY THE PLANE. Opening a route used to make you commit an aircraft first, then find out how far it was. Now you plan first. Pick two cities and you see the whole picture up front —distance, the runway it needs, the demand, the best-fit aircraft, and what it would earn per day — before you spend a cent. Like what you see? Assign a plane. Not ready? Save it to your plans and come back later. Planned routes live in their own drawer under Routes, each with live economics that never go stale, and they show as faint dashed lines on the map so you can see the network you're thinking about before you build it. It works for multi-city loops too: add a stop, and the preview covers the whole loop. BUY AN AIRLINE, WATCH YOUR TOUCH WORK When you own a subsidiary, its Market Intelligence card now shows what it's earning under YOU — live revenue, load, and net — instead of the numbers it had the day you signed. The old figures are still there, clearly marked "at acquisition," so you can see exactly how much your ownership changed. Also in 1.10: • Your maintenance bases can grow. Turn a line station into a hangar for the difference in price, keeping everything it's saved you so far — or decommission one you no longer need • On iPad, opening a multi-city route no longer loses the stops you tapped, and the Routes panel gives its list the room it deserves • A cleaner welcome-back briefing that sits where it should on iPad • The build number now shows quietly at the bottom of the load screen

MAINTENANCE RUNS ITSELF NOW — UNTIL IT REALLY NEEDS YOU. Routine checks used to interrupt you constantly, especially with a big fleet at high speed. In 1.9 the small stuff just gets done. Light A checks are serviced at the gate automatically, with one quiet line in your Ops log — no card, no stopping. The sim only asks you about the real planning events: the heavy C and D checks, which are rare and worth your attention. A contract maintenance shop handles the rest. It costs a bit more, but your aircraft keeps flying while it waits for a hangar slot instead of sitting grounded. And once your fleet is big enough to justify it, you can stop renting. Build your own maintenance network — a line station for a few million, or a full hangar base — at any hub or at any airport where you run three or more routes. Your own bases are cheaper, faster, queue-free, and turn overnight A checks into zero lost flights. Each one shows you a payback card: the fees it's saved, and the flying days it's handed back to your fleet. INTEGRATING AN AIRLINE YOU BOUGHT If you've acquired a subsidiary, there's now a clear window for it under Ops. A progress bar, the monthly integration bill, any seniority dispute with the crews — and a plain answer to the question players kept asking: it finishes on its own, on a clock, and raising the sim speed is how you get there sooner. If you'd rather not wait out a crew dispute, a new button settles it early for a fee. Also in 1.9: • Your crews stop falling behind on recurrent training. The scheduler now catches a crew on its way back from a flight, so fewer pilots lapse and have to requalify at a premium • Spirit Airlines leaves the rival roster — it ceased passenger flying in 2026, and the game keeps its carriers current • The maintenance dates you see are accurate again — a longstanding miscalculation pushed every check's due date too far out • Deferring a heavy check is a genuine gamble once more: put it off and it costs you more, not less

YOUR CREWS ARE PEOPLE NOW, AND PEOPLE TAKE TIME TO TRAIN. Hiring used to be instant. In 1.8 it isn't. A type-rated pilot still needs ten days of line training before you can roster them. Hire someone new to the aircraft and they're away on a 45-day type-rating course first — and if the contract school is busy, they wait for a class slot. Every crew also carries a currency clock, and recurrent training comes around whether you planned for it or not. Let it lapse and they can't fly until they requalify, at a premium. That turns the fleet you can afford into a different question from the fleet you can actually staff. So you have a Chief Pilot now. Capt. Morgan Ellis sits at the top of the Crews tab and tells you, per aircraft family, whether you're genuinely short of people or just waiting on a course to finish — the difference that used to be invisible. Fly big enough and you can stop renting the schoolhouse. Build your own training centre at an operating hub, add a full-flight simulator bay for a crew family, and your courses run cheaper, finish sooner, and never queue for a slot. It's real capital at real simulator prices — the payback card shows you exactly what it's returning, in fees saved and in crew days handed back to the line. ONE AIRCRAFT, MANY CITIES A route no longer has to be two airports. Build a rotation of up to five, pick the aircraft first, tap the cities in order, and it flies the loop and repeats. Each leg earns its own traffic, so a well-built circuit reaches thin markets a there-and-back never could. Also in 1.8: • Maintenance moves to its own section under Fleet, where it belongs — Ops keeps just the alerts • Rival airlines now hub where they really hub. Air France out of Paris, Lufthansa out of Frankfurt and Munich, Copa out of Panama City — 141 carriers, checked one by one • Buy an airline and you can finally see what it's earning NOW, not the numbers from the day you signed • Sell-back offers for your hubs and slots are priced off what they actually earn, so a profitable hub is no longer worth a fraction of what you paid • Ops sections collapse into drawers, and anything needing you wears a red count — with the drawer opening itself when an alert lands inside it • Transpacific routes cross the Pacific. They used to go the long way round the world • Aircraft you inherit in an acquisition arrive airworthy instead of grounded on day one • A round of real performance work: the sim no longer stalls on a large fleet at high speed, and long-running airlines keep syncing across devices

YOUR FLEET NOW AGES AND NEEDS LOOKING AFTER. 1.7 adds a full aircraft-maintenance program. Every jet you own comes due for scheduled A, C and D checks as it flies. Plan them ahead and they're inexpensive and routine. Let one slip past its deadline and the bill climbs, breakdown risk spikes, and the airworthiness clock starts ticking toward a grounding you didn't choose. It turns your fleet from a set-and-forget asset into something you actually run. The new MX section in the Ops tab lists every aircraft coming due, with the cost, the downtime, and how long you've got. And when a jet on a live route heads into the shop for a heavy check, you decide how to keep the money flowing: • Cover the route with a comparable spare from your fleet. It flies the line and hands it back when the check's done • Acquire a replacement on the spot • Or suspend the route until your aircraft is back Also in 1.7: • 40 more real airports get their own hand-painted hero artwork from Salt Lake City to São Paulo, Johannesburg to Tel Aviv • A new 100x time speed for the long game and the sim now automatically eases off the throttle the moment a major event hits, so a fuel shock or a grounding never blows past you at speed • Every new airline now launches on today's real-world date and season • Smoother maintenance, crew, and route-reassignment flows, straight from your feedback Thanks for flying with us. Keep building your dream airlines!

German localization is here! The full game now plays auf Deutsch. Plus new atmospheric city artwork for airports around the world. Thanks for playing!

Two legends join the fleet: the Airbus A350-1000 and the Boeing 747-8i — the newest widebody and the final passenger Queen of the Skies, both with authentic liveries. Plus a performance update that keeps your device cooler and easier on the battery during long sessions at high speed. Thanks for playing and keep building your dream airline!

More save-and-load smoothing: opening the load menu and switching between games is now quicker, with no brief pauses on larger airlines. Thanks for flying with us.

Saving your game is now smoother — no more brief pauses when you save, quit, or switch away from the app. Thanks for flying with us.

Game Center achievements now sync properly to the Apple Games app, so your milestones show up where they should. Plus behind-the-scenes stability and reliability improvements. Thanks for flying with us.

You set the fares now. Every route gets a fare lever: from Discount to Flagship. Premium pricing pays when your plane is full anyway; discounts fill thin routes and defend against rivals moving in. There's no one right answer, and that's the point. Also in this update: • Game Center: 29 achievements and efficiency leaderboards — race the world to $100M • New airlines get their first customer calling before their first purchase • A welcome-back ops briefing catches you up when you return to a save • Your rivals now visibly build hubs, go public, and chase mergers • By popular demand: buy aircraft directly for airlines you've acquired — they fly under their own flag Thanks for flying with us.

Design your airline's livery. Your fleet now flies your colors. Pick a palette, choose a tail emblem, name your fuselage, and every aircraft in your fleet wears the paint — painted tails, titles on the window line, the whole look. Ready to rebrand? Repaint your fleet as a real capital decision — with a paint-shop queue and the revenue you give up while a jet is in the hangar. Already flying? Your first livery is on the house. Plus the usual polish and stability fixes. Thanks for flying with us.

Fixes an issue where airport partnership offers could repeatedly target the same hub, plus behind-the-scenes reliability improvements.

Airline Architect is now a one-time purchase! Buy once, own it forever. For a limited time, founding players unlock the full game at a special founding price. Thanks for flying with us!

Take more control of your fleet. • Park an aircraft. You can now close a route and keep the plane on standby as an idle spare — then reassign it to a new route whenever you're ready. Available from the aircraft detail screen and the Routes panel. Aircraft already in the air finish their current flight before parking. • Fixed: a fuel hedge could disappear after you closed and reopened the app. Your hedge now sticks for its full term. Thanks for flying with us — keep the feedback coming!

A fresh look on takeoff. Airline Architect opens on new artwork: an aerial view of the runway with your fleet lining up for departure, tuned for both light and dark and every screen size. Plus behind-the-scenes polish to keep things smooth.

More room to build. The free preview now stretches to 6 aircraft and 5 routes: enough to concentrate your flights through a single airport, establish your first hub, and watch the network effect kick in. Also in this release: clearer language about what Pro unlocks, and a handful of polish fixes.

Corrected the artwork shown on airport cards. Mountain cities like Salt Lake City, Zurich, and Kathmandu now show mountains, coastal cities show coastline, and desert cities show desert — a sweep of all 385 airports fixed the ones that were showing the wrong scenery.

Destinations, drawn. Every airport in the game now has original artworkL andmark cityscapes for the great aviation hubs, regional scenery everywhere else. Plus a new hand-drawn launch screen for iPhone and iPad. Fixes: "Assign to New Route" now works · selling a routed aircraft no longer forces the route closed (swap in a replacement instead) · cleaner late-game financial figures · map polish.