Airport curfews

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Some airports don't allow landings at night, or limit them. Airport curfews let your airline keep a list of these night windows, show them to pilots on the booking page and, if you want, take points off a landing inside one.

Switch it on

1. Open Staff → Airline settings → Optional features and switch on Airport curfews.
2. Open Staff → Operations → Curfews.
3. Press Add the ready-made windows to copy a few well-known ones (curfews at Frankfurt, Sydney and Zurich, and London Heathrow's night quota period: limited, not banned), or add your own with Add a window.
4. Open each window's source link and check it. Then press Edit → Checked today.

Windows are in local time

Enter each window in the airport's local time, as the rules are written: for example 23:00 to 06:00. A window whose end is earlier than its start goes past midnight. Vaeroly works out the UTC times from the airport's time zone, so summer and winter time are handled for you.

Each window is one of two kinds:

• Curfew: no landings. Only this kind can cost points.
• Quota period: flights are limited, not banned. Pilots only see a warning.

The ready-made windows come from official public pages, but rules change. Each one shows check the source until you set the date you checked it.

What pilots see

On the booking page, pilots see the windows at their departure and arrival airports, in local time and in UTC for the day of the flight. When the scheduled departure or arrival is inside a window, a warning says so.

Points for landing during a curfew

This is off until you switch it on. In the Scoring box, tick Landing during a curfew costs points, set the points, and save.

• Only ACARS flights count, using the measured touchdown time at the booked arrival airport. Manual PIREPs and claims are never charged.
• A flight that lands at another airport (a diversion) isn't charged.
• The PIREP shows its own line, for example "Landed during the curfew at EDDF (23:40 local)".
• PIREPs filed before you switch it on keep their score. Re-scoring a PIREP never adds the line to it.