Hiring out Aircraft

Hiring out Aircraft allows airline managers to maximize fleet utilization by delegating flight planning to pilots within strict safety boundaries. Instead of the dispatch team manually building every charter job, this feature empowers pilots to browse live local demand and automatically generate single-leg flight plans.

Allowing other players to hire out your aircraft reduces administrative overhead while maintaining operational control. You can assign aircraft to your own contract pilots to keep them busy, or rent airframes out to freelance aviators for shared revenue.

Configuration and Restrictions

To enable this feature, navigate to the specific aircraft's management page within the Operations Cockpit and select the Hire tab. You can toggle the Allow Hire setting to activate Pilot-Configured Charters.

When you make an aircraft available for charter, you act as the gatekeeper for the demand the pilot can see. You can apply Restrictions, which act as pre-set filters ensuring the aircraft is only used in ways that fit your network strategy.

• Radius & Location: You can limit the aircraft to operate within a specific radius of a base airport (e.g., 200 nmi from EGCC) or within a specific country. The pilot will only see demand that keeps the aircraft within this defined zone.

• Last Leg Protocol: You can configure the aircraft to only show demand that constitutes the "last leg" of a journey. This is ideal for collaborative networks, allowing freelance pilots to complete the final connections into your hubs.

By applying these filters, you ensure that a pilot cannot charter a short-range aircraft for a trans-oceanic flight or move a plane out of your operational hub without your direct oversight.

Pay and Contracts

The financial structure of these flights depends entirely on who you make the aircraft available to.

Contract Flights

If you disable Public Use then the aircraft is only available to pilots who hold an active contract with your company. The pilot accrues hours against their contract and is paid their standard hourly rate at the end of the billing cycle. This is effectively self-dispatching for your employees. Contracted pilots will only be able to hire aircraft that are accessible to them via their current rank.

Off-Contract

If you enable Public Use, freelance pilots without a contract can hire the aircraft. In this scenario, payment is performance-based.

1. Set the Rate: You define a Pay Percentage (e.g., 75%) for the aircraft.

2. Flight Completion: Upon disembarking at the destination, the system calculates the total revenue for the demand carried.

3. Payment: The pilot is immediately paid their percentage of that revenue out of the company bank account. Your company will only receive payment for the fulfilled demand once they reach their final destination.