Airline Ops — Simulation Mode Hotfix (Feb 16, 2026) — Airline Ops Steam update #55481

Crash FixFixed a crash that could occur when aircraft are grounded for overdue maintenance, causing the game to freeze on the Ops Center or World Map screens. If you experienced a sudden white screen or freeze mid-session, this was likely the cause.Save System FixesFixed manual save/load from the Pause Menu not respecting your active save slot. Previously, using Save or Load from the pause menu would always write to Slot 1 regardless of which slot you were actually playing on.Fixed emergency saves (when the game closes unexpectedly) not saving to the correct slot. If you alt-tabbed out or the game closed mid-session, it could overwrite the wrong save.Saves now properly track when they were last saved, so the save selection screen shows accurate timestamps.Fixed a rare issue where loading a save could put you in the wrong game mode (Simple vs Simulation). Your save file's mode now always ...