- SkyChart Patch Notes v0.6.101.80 -> v0.6.106.7 - 1 September 2026
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 cabinet.A new tutorial, seventy more aircraft, every aircraft in the game drawn and redrawn again, mixed fleets on a single route, airport lobbying, alliance blocs, crew hiring, and a world that finally behaves like the decade you are flying in. Here is what changed.Casey Hands You a ChecklistThe tutorial used to be a stack of pages you clicked through with Next. It is now a list of missions, with a tracker down the left of the map that ticks itself off as you go and never stops you doing something…
- SkyChart Patch Notes v0.6.101.41 -> v0.6.101.76 - 1 August 2026
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 America and Latin America. Each sub-region has its own diplomatic standings, airline pools, and sanctions rules.All 532 cities now have hand-verified region assignments. Your existing saves migrate automatically.Your home city shapes diplomacy from day one. Start in Tokyo and East Asia rolls out the welcome mat. A new 15x15 relationship matrix means every starting location plays differently.Two new AI rivals fill the expanded map. Tatra Air operates flights from Eastern Europe, and Turan Air serves C…
- SkyChart Patch Notes v0.6.101.29 -> v0.6.101.40 - 28 July 2026
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 first month ticked over.v0.6.101.39: Casey's Performance TuningFixed a nasty frame-rate drop when the Strategic Advisor was open. Cash updates were hammering every button in the panel 60 times a second. Casey installed a governor. Your GPU says thank you.Fixed a runaway string in the translation catalog. One rogue regex was pulling 18,000 characters of raw GDScript into the translation pipeline instead of the actual button label. 29 language files cleaned up.v0.6.101.38: Casey's Engine Room Inspec…
- SkyChart Patch Notes v0.6.101.14 -> v0.6.101.29 - 26 July 2026
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 the real-world config and sits properly below the 200ER's 313.v0.6.101.28: Casey's Suggestion BoxMet all era objectives early? Casey now puts a 'Claim Victory' button right on the Era Objectives panel. No more waiting for December to roll around. If there's a next era, the button says 'Advance to Next Era' instead.Antitrust regulators will no longer fine you or force-sell your routes in a region where you're the only airline. If the AI packed up and left, that's not your fault. Casey argued th…
- SkyChart Patch Notes v0.6.101.2 -> v0.6.101.14 - 24 July 2026
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 approves of skipping the parts you already know.Swapping to a different aircraft now rescales your cabin layout. Your 20% business / 80% economy split carries over to the new airframe instead of reverting to all-economy.Crew Wage Boost gets a bulk-apply button. Set it on one route, then apply to every route flying the same aircraft type.v0.6.101.13: Casey Reads the Suggestion BoxRoute creation wizard now shows a region filter. 532 cities sorted by region. Casey reorganized the filing cabinet.Estim…
- SkyChart Patch Notes v0.6.100.1 -> v0.6.101.2 - 19 July 2026
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 Advisor got a new Route filter: All, Point-to-Point, or Multi-Stop. Pick what you are looking for instead of scrolling past chain suggestions you do not want.Hide Slot-Full is now on by default and checks both slot availability and throughput headroom. The advisor no longer recommends routes to airports where you physically cannot operate.v0.6.101.1: Casey Expands the Hangar CatalogFive new aircraft join the roster. The Wolfram Fw 200 Condor and Meridian M-130 Clipper bring proper choices to the 193…
- SkyChart Patch Notes v0.6.46.7 to v0.6.100.1 - 10 July 2026
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 and Lease buttons in the city window.Only affects walled routes on a realism campaign. Every other route opens exactly as before. v0.6.100.0 - Casey's Test Robot Runs the Whole DrillCasey's little test robot picked up three tricky drills it used to skip. It now stages a supplier strike and checks you can still fly the planes you already own while nobody new can be bought, throws up the Cold War no-fly wall between the Americas and the Soviet bloc to make sure it holds, and grounds a plane for a…
- SkyChart Patch Notes v0.4.3.34 -> v0.6.46.6 - 1 June 2026
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. Every existing campaign loads cleanly. The deepest new systems are gated behind Realism mode, which you opt into at the start of a campaign. Casual play behaves exactly as it always has, and your books are never touched by anything you didn't choose. The Competition Grew UpThe biggest change you'll feel. Your rivals now play by most of the same rules you do. They borrow. A cash-strapped rival that's tapped out the bank can issue bonds to keep fighting. Good credit borrows cheap; a junk rating g…
- Casey's Field Trip: Three Meters Below Sea Level - 19 May 2026
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. Why the hub mattersEconomic value 90, tourist appeal 85 — top tier for a city this sizeShort hops to London, Paris, Hamburg, and Brussels unlock the European triangle earlyBy the early jet age, the same hub stretches all the way to Jakarta along KLM's real historical map The full read covers KLM's first scheduled international flight (May 17, 1920), how WWII flattened the place, and why the postwar single-terminal rebuild still scales with widebodies in 2026. Read the full city spotlight → Wi…
- Boeing 747 Debut in 1969: How the Jumbo Jet Changed Commercial Aviation - 5 May 2026
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 before enough orders arrived. The bet paid off, and the wide-body defined airline economics for the next four decades. The 747-100 carried roughly 490 passengers in high-density seating, almost double the 707, with a 9,800 km range that turned multi-stop routes like New York–London or Tokyo–Los Angeles into single legs. Per-seat costs dropped sharply and fares followed, putting long-haul flights within reach of ordinary travelers years before deregulation removed the price floor. HighlightsPan A…
- Czardus Played SkyChart for 45 Minutes - 28 April 2026
Czardus Played SkyChart for 45 Minutes Fellow indie dev Czardus posted a long-form playthrough of the demo on YouTube. He builds an empire, learns the hub system the hard way, and along the way buys out a competitor's London Heathrow slot just to spite them. If you want to see how the campaign plays out before you wishlist, this is probably the best video out there right now. Czardus picked the Dawn of Flight era on Easy, started building hubs in Chicago and New York, and worked his way through the Great Depression all the way to global expansion across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. By the end, he had 92% market share in the Americas and a 150-city network. A few things he flagged that I thought were worth calling out: He liked the auto-slot purchase when buying a route into a city where he didn't already hold a slot He got tripped up by the "Awaiting Delivery" status on new routes…
- Dawn of the Jet Age: The Bering 707-120 in SkyChart - 24 April 2026
Dawn of the Jet Age: The Bering 707-120 in SkyChart Here's how to use the jet age to your advantage. When the Bering 707-120 unlocks in 1958, you're standing at the most pivotal moment in your airline empire. The jet revolution didn't just add speed; it reshuffled which airlines dominated the industry for decades. The operators who hesitated got left behind. The ones who committed early built intercontinental empires. The Bering 707-120 packs a 9,300 km range, 900 km/h cruise speed, and 160-seat capacity into a $4,000,000 airframe. That's 35% faster than the piston-era Lockford Constellation and enough range to connect virtually any city pair within a single hemisphere — non-stop. What Makes the 707 the Game's First Inflection Point 9,300 km range unlocks true intercontinental routes — New York to London, LA to Tokyo, Johannesburg to Zurich 35% speed advantage over piston aircraft means…
- The Flying Boat That Crossed Oceans: Inside the Bering 314 Clipper - 17 April 2026
The Flying Boat That Crossed Oceans: Inside the Bering 314 Clipper The Bering 314 Clipper is SkyChart's first true intercontinental aircraft — and in 1938, nothing else comes close. In 1938, crossing the Atlantic or Pacific by air meant boarding a flying boat — a giant aircraft that landed on water because paved runways simply didn't exist at enough destinations around the world. The real Boeing 314 offered sleeping berths, a formal dining salon, and a lounge on transoceanic crossings that cost the equivalent of $15,000 round-trip today. SkyChart's Bering 314 Clipper captures all of that history — and turns it into one of the biggest strategic decisions you'll face in the 1930s campaign. With a range of 5,900 km and 74 seats, the Bering 314 is a quantum leap over every aircraft that came before it. The Forge Trimotor and Dawson DC-3 top out at 885–2,400 km — the 314 opens up city pairs…
- City Spotlight: Abu Dhabi - 14 April 2026
City Spotlight: Abu Dhabi — The Desert Hub That Rewrote Long-Haul Aviation No runway until 1975. Nonstop to six continents by 2010. Abu Dhabi is SkyChart's Gulf hub — and one of the most rewarding bases in the game. Abu Dhabi is a city that didn't exist on the commercial aviation map until 1975 — and then became one of the most strategically dominant hubs on the planet in under 40 years. The secret? Geography. Draw a 7,000-kilometer circle from Abu Dhabi and you cover Europe, East Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and Southeast Asia in a single arc. That's not luck; that's the entire Gulf hub value proposition. The real-world story of Etihad Airways — launched in 2003, buying equity stakes in struggling carriers worldwide to feed traffic into Abu Dhabi, operating widebodies to six continents within a decade — is one of commercial aviation's most compressed success arcs. In SkyChart: Airl…
- SkyChart: Airline Executive — Patch Notes v0.2.41.6 → v0.2.42.23 - 13 April 2026
SkyChart: Airline Executive — Patch Notes v0.2.41.6 → v0.2.42.23 Chief flight inspector Casey the Macaw would like a word. Several words, actually. v0.2.42.23 — Casey Installs a Real Weather Office (Phase 1 of 4)New harvest pipeline pulls real climatology data: NOAA IBTrACS tropical cyclones, NOAA NGDC volcanic eruptions (VEI 3+), and 30 years of Open-Meteo ERA5 wind/pressure/precip/cloud.Dormant WeatherSim autoload wired in, feature-flagged off. Old storm system still flies. Harvest pipeline is dev-only — triple-locked out of shipped builds. v0.2.42.21 — Fleet Repaint, Benchmark Memory, ESC UnstuckPlanes pushed 55% toward white, so they stand out against their own route colors.Performance Tuning screen now skips on subsequent campaigns when the hardware fingerprint matches. Single-click a city properly clears stale route origins; drag-drop uses an atomic open call.Pan speed now scales…
- Fuel Shock: How the 1973 Oil Embargo Rewrote the Rules of Commercial Aviation - 11 April 2026
Fuel Shock: How the 1973 Oil Embargo Rewrote the Rules of Commercial Aviation In October 1973, oil prices quadrupled overnight — and airlines that weren't ready were never the same. Here's how that crisis plays out in SkyChart. On October 17, 1973, OPEC's Arab members announced an embargo that sent a barrel of crude from $3 to nearly $12 within months. Pan American World Airways alone saw its fuel bills balloon by approximately $200 million in a single year. The survival tactics were almost grimly comic — carriers stopped painting their aircraft to save weight, slashed inflight magazine runs, and quietly killed any route that couldn't carry its weight. What the crisis also did was accelerate a transition that was already underway: the move to widebody jets. Airlines that had already committed to larger, more fuel-efficient aircraft absorbed the shock and kept growing. Those still runnin…
- Patch Notes 0.2.41.6 -> 0.2.42.2 - 9 April 2026
v0.2.42.2 — Casey Files Paperwork With Steam ReviewCasey came back from a meeting at Steam HQ, waving a clipboard and looking thunderous. 'They told me players couldn't SCROLL the help guide with a controller! TWO HUNDRED PAGES of expertly-curated wisdom and they could only see the first screenful?!' He stomped over to Help & Controls, ripped open the Help tab, and bolted a right-stick scroll handler directly to the inner content panel. Sidebar still navigates with the D-pad, content now scrolls with the right thumbstick, and a controller hint sits at the top so nobody has to guess. 'Read every word, Captains — I labored over those.' 'And then — THEN! — They said the BUTTONS in my own Flight School don't work with a controller!' Casey was speechless for a full second, which is some kind of record. The track selection dialog and scenario prompt were both showing up while the registered t…
- Demo Patch Notes 0.2.39.7 -> 0.2.41.6 - 7 April 2026
v0.2.41.6 — Casey's Flight Inspection ReportCasey was squinting at his tutorial clipboard when he noticed every em-dash had been replaced with a question mark. 'Who redacted my briefing notes?! I specifically wrote DASHES, not RIDDLES!' Tracked it down to 13 corrupted characters across the tutorial steps — some encoding gremlin swapped them during a file transfer. Casey personally re-inked every dash with a fountain pen.'Why is my spotlight illuminating the ENTIRE AIRPORT instead of just the Route Info panel?!' Casey found the tutorial highlighted falling back to a full-screen placeholder when the target window wasn't open yet. Now it gracefully hides instead of turning the whole screen into a crime scene.The tutorial kept whispering 'Swap All', but the button actually says 'Upgrade All'. Casey cross-referenced four separate documents and found the old name in every single one. 'Did nob…
- Casey Opens Flight School — Tutorial Now Live - 4 April 2026
Casey Opens Flight School 🦜✈️ After squawking at poorly labeled cockpit instruments and unlabeled route cards for long enough, Casey has officially opened the SkyChart Academy — and he's not letting anyone leave until they've earned their wings. 🎓 The Tutorial Is Here v0.2.36.0 – v0.2.37.2 SkyChart now has a full in-game tutorial with 15 chapters covering every major system — from laying your first route to corporate espionage. Two tracks available: Quick Tour — 4 chapters to get you airborne fast. Earn the Casey's Copilot achievement. Full Course — All 93 systems, every panel, nothing skipped. Earn Casey's Star Student + 25 Legacy Points. The tutorial features a two-stage spotlight system that follows you into dropdown menus, breadcrumb progress dots, a Resume Tutorial button in Settings, and per-chapter replay if you want to revisit anything. Signal-wait timeouts mean nobody gets st…
