Patch Notes — March 4, 2026 — Airline Ops Steam update #55472

Big one today. Several fixes targeting issues reported by players over the past week, plus a quality-of-life improvement to crew messaging. Appreciate the detailed reports — they make a difference. Crew Salaries Found a unit conversion issue where crew salary calculations were running about 100x higher than intended, plus a secondary billing overlap in simulation mode. If you were going bankrupt on Day 2-3 despite running a reasonable operation, this was why. Salaries should now reflect actual crew costs. Aircraft Assignment Addressed a scenario where aircraft could get permanently locked by flights that never departed or were cancelled as stale. The cleanup system now catches all pre-departure flight states, and there's a daily sweep that releases any aircraft stuck in limbo with no matching active flight. Crew Dispatch Messaging This one turned out to not be a bug — crew was being corr...