Board a friend's flight

Share one link and your friends or family come along on your flight. They open it in a browser, with no account and no email, pick a seat and follow the flight. After landing they can rate it with 1 to 5 stars.

These are real people. Their stars are just for fun: they never change your points, scores, flights or rankings.

Open boarding

1. Make a SimBrief plan for the flight. The cabin has as many seats as the plan's passengers. Without a plan there's no boarding, and a cargo plan with 0 passengers has none either.
2. Open the booking and find Board a friend's flight.
3. Press Open boarding, then Copy link and send it on WhatsApp, Discord or wherever your friends are.

If you change the load on the booking after planning, the booking's passenger number is used until you make a new plan. Nobody already on board loses their seat.

What your passengers see

• Your airline, the flight number and callsign, the route, the aircraft and the departure time. Of you, only your first name: anyone who has the link sees it.
• A seat map. They pick a free seat and can type a nickname of up to 20 characters. Without one they're "Passenger 14C".
• The flight as it goes: a line for each moment in the cabin (boarding, take-off, cruise, descent, landing), altitude, speed and how far is left. No map position.
• After landing: the landing rate and its grade, and the stars.

The page stays up for a day after the flight, then the link stops working.

While you fly

The booking shows how many are on board and each seat with its nickname. My flight shows the count too. Remove takes one passenger off (a rude nickname, for example).

New link makes a fresh link, and the old one stops working. Close boarding stops the link.

After the flight, the PIREP shows Friends on board with the average stars, apart from the passenger reviews.

Limits

• One seat per phone or computer on a flight, and 3 seats a day.
• A few seats an hour from one internet connection, so a link posted somewhere big can't be filled by bots.
• Nicknames with rude words are refused, and they show as plain text.
• No chat.

Privacy

Passengers give no name, email or phone number. A cookie on their device remembers their seat; we keep only a scrambled copy of it. Seats and nicknames are deleted 90 days after boarding. Forget me on the boarding page removes the nickname and the device link at once.

Your passengers' nicknames are visible only to you. Staff of other airlines can't see who boarded.

For staff

Switch it on under Staff → Airline settings → Optional features → Board a friend's flight (under Community). New airlines start with it on. Hidden airlines never get boarding links.