A group brings airlines with the same real code together as one airline with branches. An alliance unites different brands.
Group under a real code
Only airlines with the same real code in their settings can join, and there can be only one group per code. Whoever forms it first becomes the lead airline; the others are branches, each with its own hub. An airline without a real code has to set one in its settings first.
Alliance
Airlines with any code can join an alliance. An airline can be in one group and one alliance at the same time.
Who can do what
- Founding a group or alliance, applying, joining and leaving are done by the airline’s head or an executive.
- Applications are handled by the head or an executive of the lead airline, who also removes members and hands over leadership.
- The lead airline can invite an airline with the same code itself, and ask again 14 days after a refusal.
What a group gives you
- Branch pilots fly each other’s flights.
- On shared routes, branches don’t take passengers from each other.
- The lead airline gives each branch a block of flight numbers so callsigns don’t clash.
- The group appears as one row in the leaderboards.
Each other’s flights
Lines of the other branches show up on your Flight board marked “branch” and book with the usual button. You don’t need to join the other airline.
- The flight stays a flight of the airline that owns the line: its aircraft, its revenue and stats.
- You get the hours, XP and the profit bonus under its policy. There is no salary for it; only your own airline pays that.
- You fly one of its aircraft already at the departure airport. An aircraft assigned there to a particular person will not be given to you.
- An alliance of different brands gives no such right.
Codeshare in an alliance
Two airlines in the same alliance agree on one line: the operator flies it and the partner sells seats under its own number. The callsign stays with the operator. Agreements live in the Codeshare section of the alliance page.
- The operator proposes, and the agreement takes effect once the partner’s management accepts it.
- The partner gets 1 to 30% of the ticket revenue from every flight on the line. The operator bears the costs.
- Either side can end the agreement at any time.
- A partner brings new passengers to the line where people know it, at both of its airports. If it doesn’t fly there and has no base there, the share goes out and no passengers come in, so pick a partner by where it is known.
Leaving and leadership
You can leave at any time, but a lead airline with members must hand over leadership first. The last member to leave dissolves the group. Change the real code in your settings and the branch leaves the group on its own.