Working with other airlines

Watch the video: Grow your airline

Vaeroly hosts many airlines, and several features let yours work with the others. Each is off until you turn it on.

Be found, and hire

• The directory: on the Community tab of Staff → Airline settings → Settings, tick List us in the public airline directory. Your airline then shows on the public Airlines page and takes part in the monthly league.
• Hiring: in the Hiring card next to it, tick We're recruiting and say who you're looking for. The directory shows Hiring on your card, and pilots can filter for airlines that are hiring and for your tags (simulators, networks, region, style). While applications are closed or you have no hub, you aren't shown as hiring.
• Directory profile: in the card of that name on the same tab, tick the simulators you fly (MSFS 2020, MSFS 2024, X-Plane 11, X-Plane 12, Prepar3D) and the languages you speak besides your default one (set on the Basics tab). Your card shows them and pilots can filter on them. The rest of the card comes by itself: the region from your hubs, the share of flights on VATSIM and IVAO from your last 90 days (or "Online flights required" when PIREPs not flown online go to review), and how busy you are from your flights in the last 30 days.
• Search engines: a listed airline's page is in Vaeroly's sitemap, with your name, ICAO code and description (or your pilots and hubs when you have no description) for search results. Listed airlines also show on Vaeroly's pages for each simulator and network, and can open a public route list: see Being found on search engines.
• Verified careers (Optional features): pilots who already fly at other airlines here can show that record with their application. You see each airline, rank, hours and flights, and can add those hours as transfer hours with one click (see Managing pilot records).

Your airline on the web

Two optional features (Staff → Airline settings → Optional features) show your airline outside the crew centre. Both are off until you turn them on.

• Website widgets: small boxes for your own website. Open Staff → Airline settings → Website widgets, pick Light or Dark, and copy a snippet into your site's HTML: flights in the air now, your latest accepted flights, your pilot count with a Join us button, or all of it in one card. They update within a minute or two. Turn the feature off and the boxes show nothing.
• Public roster and flight log: two public pages, linked from your airline's page: the roster (pilot ID, rank and hub) and the accepted flights of the last 90 days (date, callsign, from, to, aircraft type and network). Virtual flying networks often ask a partner airline to show its roster and recent flights publicly; these pages are a ready answer, with nothing to keep up to date by hand.

Both follow each pilot's privacy choices: pilots who stay off leaderboards aren't on the roster or in the latest flights, pilots hidden from live maps aren't in the flights in the air, and a pilot's name shows only when they turned on their public profile (otherwise their pilot ID). The flight log shows no pilots at all.

Fly together

• Codeshares: share routes with a partner airline (Staff → Operations → Routes). Once they accept, each airline's pilots can book the other's shared flights, and the flight counts at their own airline. Both airlines need the switch on.
• Events with other airlines: invite other airlines to co-host an event (Staff → Community → Events, under each event). Pilots of every host sign up and fly it.
• Alliances: found an alliance and invite airlines by ICAO code or web address, or accept an invitation (Staff → Airline settings → Alliance). The alliance gets a public page with its members, their events and a monthly table.

Network events calendar

With Network events calendar on, your upcoming events are listed on Vaeroly's public events calendar (/events), day by day, next to other airlines' events. Pilots looking for a group flight find yours there, and each event links to your airline's page. Anyone can open the calendar; your pilots find it under Events & tours → Events calendar.

Staff switch it on under Staff → Airline settings → Optional features, in the Between airlines group.

Share and compare

• Starter templates: offer your hubs, fleet, routes and ranks to airlines that are just starting (Staff → Airline settings → Import & export). A Vaeroly administrator looks at it first; pilots are never included.
• Benchmarks: with Airline analytics on, the analytics page compares your retention, flights per active pilot and review wait with the median of similar-sized airlines. Only medians of at least 5 airlines are shown, and nobody sees your numbers.