After a diversion

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What happens when you land somewhere other than your flight's arrival, and how you and your aircraft get back.

Where you end up

When ACARS sees you land more than 5 nm from your planned arrival, you and your aircraft stay at the airport you really landed at. This is the same for every airline; an airline with Failure rules can set another distance for its diversion check, and that distance is used instead. Your PIREP shows Diverted · landed at with that airport.

If your airline uses Failure rules, the diversion check and its points still apply, as before. Without them, a diversion only changes where you and the aircraft are.

A free jumpseat back

Your dashboard and the PIREP page show Free jumpseat back to …, to the airport your flight was planned to.

• It costs no points and doesn't count toward your airline's weekly jumpseat limit or the hours between two jumpseats.
• You get it once, while you are still at the airport you landed at.
• It stays offered until your next booking, or for 7 days.

Flying the aircraft back

If your airline makes aircraft fly from where they are, the aircraft you diverted with may be stuck where you landed. You can press Fly … back to … to book a Ferry after diversion on that aircraft, from where it is to the planned arrival.

• It works even when your airline doesn't fly charters.
• It counts your hours, with no points.
• It isn't sent to staff review as a charter.

Fly it with ACARS like any other flight.

For staff

When an aircraft lands after a diversion at an airport that none of your routes leave from, staff who can edit the fleet get a notification in the app: fly it back as a ferry, or move it on the Fleet page (Location). Nothing goes to Discord.