SkyChart: Airline Executive
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Steam News · Sep 1
Casey's Very Big UpdateCEO, this is a big one, and it has been a while coming. A hundred and thirteen patches have gone into the build you are downloading. Most of that time went to testing and debugging, and a good slice of the rest went to a summer cold that flattened the dev for the better part of a week. Casey brought soup, answered the phones, and used the quiet to reorganize the filing cabin...
Steam News · Aug 1
Casey's Big UpdateCEO, thirty-four patches' worth of new features, bug fixes, and quality-of-life improvements all rolled into one announcement. Here's what changed.The World Got BiggerThe map went from 6 regions to 15. Europe split into Western, Eastern, and Nordic. Asia broke into East, Southeast, South, and Central. Africa divided into North and Sub-Saharan. The Americas split into North Americ...
Steam News · Jul 28
v0.6.101.40: Casey's Ghost Buster ReportFixed delivery countdown rings getting stuck on the map forever. During mass aircraft replacements, the old icons could lose their tracking and haunt the route lines permanently. Casey swept the hangar with a flashlight.Delivery status now syncs correctly on save/load. Previously, the game could show phantom delivery rings from stale order data until the fir...
Steam News · Jul 26
v0.6.101.29: Casey's Aircraft Price AuditCasey pulled the invoice records and found the Skybus A320 listed at $10M. The A319 costs $24M. Something was off. The A320 now costs $24M, right where it belongs between the A319 and A321.The Bering 777-200 was carrying 350 passengers in a three-class layout. Casey measured the cabin and says that's a 777-300 worth of seats. Corrected to 305, which matches...
Steam News · Jul 24
v0.6.101.14: Casey's QoL ClipboardBulk Replace: Select All and Deselect All buttons. Casey got tired of clicking 47 checkboxes one by one.Engine and modification picker now shows absolute stats alongside the percentages. 'Range: 5,200 km (+6%)' beats '+6%' when you're trying to reach Honolulu.Tutorial step dots are clickable. Jump forward or backward through a chapter without restarting. Casey app...
Steam News · Jul 19
v0.6.101.2: Casey Keeps Routes Flying During SwapsFleet risk replacements and batch upgrades now keep your old aircraft flying until the new ones roll off the assembly line. Routes stay profitable while you wait for delivery instead of sitting idle on the tarmac.Cancelling a pending batch swap returns any pre-reserved hangar stock. Casey double-checked the paperwork on that one.The Strategic Advis...
Steam News · Jul 10
v0.6.100.1 - Casey Stops Buying Gates Behind a Closed BorderOn a Cold War realism run, trying to open a route across a closed border used to charge you for the airport gates first and only then tell you the flight can't happen — leaving you holding gates you didn't want. Casey moved the border check to the front of the line. Now you get the heads-up before a single gate is bought, on both the Buy ...
Steam News · Jun 1
Casey Comes Up For AirIt has been a while, CEO! Casey put his head down, the studio went quiet, and a whole lot of airline turned over in the meantime. This is the catch-up post for everyone, and it is a big one. The short version: your rivals grew up, you can paint the fleet, every campaign is now its own little world, and the money got a great deal more interesting. A quick word before we taxi. ...
Steam News · May 19
Casey's Field Trip: Three Meters Below Sea LevelCasey filed some inspection paperwork this week from a place that shouldn't exist. Amsterdam Schiphol sits on the bed of a lake that the Dutch finished draining in 1852. The runways are three meters below sea level. The dikes are doing the heavy lifting. It's also one of the best starter hubs in SkyChart's 1930s campaign, and the post breaks down why...
Steam News · May 5
The Boeing 747 Debut in 1969: How the Jumbo Jet Changed Commercial AviationBoeing nearly bankrupted itself building the 747. The plane it shipped changed how airlines made money for a generation. When Pan Am Flight 1 taxied out of JFK on January 22, 1970, it carried 332 passengers to London on a plane that Boeing had bet the company on. The 747 came within weeks of pushing Boeing into bankruptcy b...