Overview
Flying now
Your pilots flying with SimUnion ACARS right now. A message reaches the aircraft by TELEX (Hoppie) and pops up in the pilot’s SimUnion ACARS.
Recent flights
Pilot counts are set by SimUnion admins.
Out of hours
Like real pilots, AI pilots may fly at most 100 hours in any 28 days and 900 hours in a calendar year. A pilot who can’t fit another flight is out of hours until enough of their flying is more than 28 days old (or the new year starts). They’re still employed and paid.
Pilot leaderboard
Fleets & aircraft
Your airline’s fleets. Open one to manage its aircraft, cabin and settings.
Routes
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Charters & wet lease
Let your real pilots fly charters: they leave from an airport you allow, go anywhere in range, on a fleet you allow. The flight earns like any other, and your airline pays a €2,000 charter fee each time one is accepted.
Events
Group flights on one of your routes or a charter. Each event is posted in SimUnion’s Discord when you set it up and again 30 minutes before it starts. Anyone who flies it with SimUnion ACARS, leaving within 2 hours of the start, gets +25% on the flight’s profit automatically.
Airports
The services you sell at the airports you fly to, and the stands your pilots park at.
Sell your passengers more at the airports you fly to. Each service has a monthly fee per airport and earns money from every passenger who buys it. On top of that, 40–70% of passengers on every flight buy travel insurance (€8–25 each, by distance), and you keep all of it.
Choose where your pilots park. As a flight starts its descent, SimUnion ACARS gives the pilot a stand by TELEX and on screen. Set zones at an airport (for example A11 to A22 and C56 to C86) and the stand is picked at random from those zones, never one another SimUnion flight already has. Airports with no zones get any free stand that suits the aircraft.
Passengers
How full your flights are, what your passengers say, and your codeshare numbers. Every passenger flight books between 75% and 100% of its seats, from real airline route data (how big the airports are and how many airlines fly the route in real life), the time of day, the day of the week, the season and holidays, other SimUnion airlines on the same route, and your passenger rating. Pilots and AI crews fly the same numbers.
Defects & maintenance
Defects stay with the aircraft until they’re fixed, whoever flies it. A landing harder than 600 fpm needs an inspection within 3 days. Harder than 1,000 fpm grounds the aircraft. About 3% of flights also leave a wear item from the MEL (fix within 3, 10 or 120 days). Anything not fixed by its deadline grounds the aircraft. Grounded aircraft can’t be booked and AI crews leave them alone.
Stats
How your airline is doing, and every flight in detail: route, profile, landing, money and the passengers on board.
PIREPs
Flights filed with SimUnion ACARS. They're accepted automatically unless slew mode was used, then they wait here for you or a SimUnion admin.
Buy aircraft
New build aircraft. Pay in full or finance over up to 15 years.
Finance
Where your money comes from and where it goes. Loan payments are taken from the airline balance automatically on each due date.
Profit per day
Deficit per day
Where the money goes
Bills each month
Every aircraft costs money each month (maintenance and depreciation for the owner, insurance and parking for the operator), and every AI pilot is paid a salary. Half is taken on the 1st and half on the 15th, starting 1 November 2026. An airline in the red can’t buy, lease or order aircraft until its balance is back above zero.
What each aircraft type (or tail) really costs to fly: fuel, airport, handling, navigation, maintenance, cabin crew, service, overheads and taxes per flight, plus its share of aircraft bills and pilot salaries. The index compares cost per block hour with your average (100). Cost breakdowns are recorded from 22 October 2026.
Fuel, airport charges, ground handling, air navigation and taxes, averaged per flight. Airport charges cover landing, take-off, pushback and passenger charges.
Per aircraft: maintenance reserves charged on every flight, inspections and repairs, and the owner’s monthly maintenance & depreciation charge. About 5% of each fleet is in a scheduled check at any time.
Recent inspections and damage
Active loans
Paid off
HR
Your AI pilots: who flies what, from where, and what you pay them.
By base and type rating
Each region has a pool of type-rated pilots looking for work. They ask for the going rate on their type (more when the pool is running low). Offer less and fewer will sign; 15% or more under what they ask and nobody will. Pilots from another region cost a relocation fee, and pilots rated on another type can be hired and sent on a type rating.
Repeat offenders
Hard landings and damage
You lease it, we eat it!
Lease and sell aircraft between alliance airlines.