Patch Notes — March 4, 2026 — Airline Ops Steam update #55473

Three fixes targeting issues reported by players this week. Appreciate the reports — keep them coming. 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. Stale and cancelled flights should now properly release their aircraft back to the available pool. Also added a daily sweep that catches any aircraft stuck in limbo with no matching active flight. Crew Dispatch Messaging This one turned out to not be a bug exactly — crew was being correctly blocked from flights, but the error message was too vague to be useful. If ...