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Casey Opens The Mailbag CEO, this is a big one. Mods arrive with the Steam Workshop to share them, routes can island-hop the Pacific with the airmail paying the way, airports want their gates used, and every option on the order form now does what it says. Underneath all that, Cas
Casey Follows The Money CEO, sixty-seven patches have gone into this one, and most of them follow the money: what your airline pays, what it earns, and whether the panels were telling you the truth about either. A lot of the answers came from you. andoblock, matthew_kouri, Pneumo
Casey's Very Big Update CEO, 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
Casey's Big Update CEO, 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 Bigger The map went from 6 regions to 15. Europe split into Western, Eastern, and Nordic. Asia brok
v0.6.101.40: Casey's Ghost Buster Report Fixed 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 no
v0.6.101.29: Casey's Aircraft Price Audit Casey 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 i
v0.6.101.14: Casey's QoL Clipboard Bulk 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
v0.6.101.2: Casey Keeps Routes Flying During Swaps Fleet 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 pe
v0.6.100.1 - Casey Stops Buying Gates Behind a Closed Border On 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 m
Casey Comes Up For Air It 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, e
Casey's Field Trip: Three Meters Below Sea Level Casey 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 d
The Boeing 747 Debut in 1969: How the Jumbo Jet Changed Commercial Aviation Boeing 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 passenge
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 ho
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
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 t
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
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 trop
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 a
v0.2.42.2 — Casey Files Paperwork With Steam Review Casey 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
v0.2.41.6 — Casey's Flight Inspection Report Casey 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