Fly from anywhere to anywhere

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Let your pilots fly a charter between any two airports, even when neither is on your routes or hubs. It suits pilots who like light aircraft, bush flying or sightseeing: a Cessna from a small field to wherever they want.

Turn it on

1. Open Staff → Airline settings → Settings, tab Flights.
2. Under Charters, set Charter flights to On or to On, and staff review every charter PIREP.
3. Tick Fly from anywhere to anywhere and save.

It is off for every airline until you tick it. Turning it off again changes nothing for charters already booked or flown.

Pilots fly the aircraft in your fleet that their rank allows. To let them fly a light aircraft, add that type to your fleet in Staff → Operations → Fleet.

What pilots see

On Book a flight, Fly a charter now reads From anywhere to anywhere and has a From box next to To. From starts at the airport the pilot is at; they can type any other airport there. They pick an aircraft and press Book charter.

When the charter is booked, the pilot and the aircraft move to the departure airport. Your location rules (Pilots fly from where they are and Aircraft fly from where they are) still apply to everything else, so after the flight both stay where they landed, as after any flight. An aircraft booked by another pilot is never moved. When Pilots fly from where they are is on, the pilot's move is a jumpseat, under your jumpseat rules (cost in points, most per week, wait): a pilot the rules don't allow a jumpseat now can't book a charter from another airport. If the pilot cancels the charter before flying it, the aircraft goes back to where it was; the pilot stays at the departure airport, as after any jumpseat.

On the map

Book a flight → Map gets a switch, Any airport to any airport. When a pilot turns it on, the map shows every hub and every airport of your schedule as a point:

1. The Departure starts at the airport the pilot is at. To leave from somewhere else, they press Pick departure and click that airport; Leave from puts it back to where they are.
2. They click the airport for the Arrival. The map draws the line between the two.
3. They pick an aircraft and press Book charter.

Pilots can also type an airport's ICAO code in Departure or Arrival, with suggestions as they type: any airport in Vaeroly's worldwide list of airports, also one your airline has never used. It is added to your airports when the charter is booked.

It is the same charter as above. The switch only shows while Fly from anywhere to anywhere is ticked and the pilot has no booking; each pilot's browser remembers whether they left it on. A made-up airport for a game is not in the worldwide list: add it on Staff → Operations → Hubs & airports first, then pilots can type its code.

Several legs

Pilots can also plan a charter trip of several legs from anywhere to anywhere: they type the airports in order (for example LOWI LSZH LFPG) under Fly a charter or on My trips, and each leg is booked after the last one is filed. This needs no other setting, also when Trips is off. See Charter trips of several legs.

What stays the same

A charter from anywhere is an ordinary charter:

• It is recorded with ACARS, filed as a PIREP and scored by your usual rules.
• It counts in the logbook, the pilot's hours and your airline's numbers.
• It is posted on Discord like any other flight.
• Pay and points follow your usual rules for charters.
• With On, and staff review every charter PIREP, every one goes to your review queue.

A charter needs two different airports. Without this setting, a charter leaves from where the pilot is: see Booking a flight.