Welcome back. Everything is different.
If you flew for MetroAir before, this is the same airline you remember, rebuilt from the ground up on a new platform. Your logbook is intact and waiting. Almost everything around it has changed for the better. Here is what happened while you were away.
Realistic. Innovative. Professional. That has not changed, and it is now true in ways it never was on the old software.
What changed at a glance
Your logbook came with you. Everything around it was rebuilt. Here are the headlines before the detail.
Three real hubs
Washington Dulles, Minneapolis, and Las Vegas, plus focus cities at Tampa, Seattle, and Honolulu.
A modern, mixed-generation fleet
The A320neo is new. It flies alongside the A320, and the 737 MAX 8 flies alongside the 737-800.
The long-haul network opened
14 new intercontinental destinations are live, including our first route to Africa.
Two separate ladders
Rank is seniority. Type ratings are aircraft access. They no longer gate each other.
A real operations platform
Gate budgets, tail tracking, landing analysis, live FAA delays, tours, and a trip builder.
Your history came with you
Every hour and PIREP you flew migrated with you, and your flying history feeds your progression on SOAR.
- 6
- Hubs
- 854
- Routes
- 150
- Airports
- 38
- Countries
- 232
- Aircraft
- 16
- Types
The three hubs, and the focus cities
The network is built around three hubs and three focus cities. It is a real route structure now, not a flat list of city pairs.
Washington Dulles
Minneapolis
Las Vegas
Tampa
Seattle
Honolulu
A mixed-generation mainline fleet
232 active aircraft across 16 types. The big change is that new and classic generations now fly side by side, and moving between them inside a family is free.
The A320neo has joined the fleet
The A320neo (A20N) is new as of this launch. It is the free FlyByWire A32NX in Microsoft Flight Simulator, so most pilots already own it. If you fly the A320, you can fly the neo immediately. There is no new rating to earn. It is the same family.
Narrowbody, two generations
- Airbus A320 and A320neo
- Boeing 737-800 and 737 MAX 8
Same-family substitution is free, so an A320 pilot flies the neo and a 737-800 pilot flies the MAX without a new rating.
Widebody, long-haul
- Airbus A350-900
- Boeing 787-9
- Boeing 777-300ER
Sixteen widebody airframes now open the intercontinental network below.
Regional, Metro Connect
- Embraer E175
- Bombardier CRJ-700
The CRJ-700 is the entry aircraft for every new pilot, and it flies the Hawaiian interisland routes.
Free same-family substitution
- Fly any airframe in a family you are rated on
- No cost inside the family
Cross-family and cross-class substitution exist too, and are covered further down.
The long-haul network that opened
854 scheduled routes across 150 airports, 38 countries, and 6 continents (everything but Antarctica). The widebodies made real intercontinental flying possible, and these destinations are live now.
Johannesburg is our first route to Africa. Dubai, Hong Kong, and Sydney anchor the long legs. The rest fill in Europe and the Americas. If you have widebody time, there is a lot of new world to go see.
Rank and ratings are two ladders now
This is the change most worth understanding. Seniority and aircraft access used to be tangled together. They are now two independent ladders, and one no longer holds the other back.
Rank is seniority
Nine tiers, earned by points from completed flights. It tracks how much you have flown, nothing else. Your rank points are unaffected by which aircraft you are rated on.
- 1Second Officer
- 2First Officer
- 3Senior First Officer
- 4Junior Captain
- 5Captain
- 6Senior Captain
- 7ATP Captain
- 8Fleet Captain
- 9Line Training Captainhand-assigned
Type ratings are aircraft access
Earned per aircraft family through a six-stage flow. Pass the written exam and you are Ground Rated, which is a complete, flyable, permanent state. You can fly the family right away.
- 1Written Exam
- 2Ground Ratedflyable
- 3Checkride
- 4IOE
- 5Type Rated
- 6Command Rated
Type Rated adds a 25 percent bonus on pay and MetroMiles. Command Rated adds 75 percent. Both are optional upgrades on top of a family you can already fly.
Substitution, all three tiers live
You are rarely forced onto an airframe you do not want. Substitution has three tiers, and all of them are live.
Same-family
FreeSwap to any airframe in a family you are rated on at no cost. This is how the A320 and A320neo interchange.
Cross-family
Costs MetroMilesTake a different family onto a route, spending MetroMiles to do it.
Cross-class
Premium MetroMilesPut a widebody on a narrowbody route, or similar. It costs premium MetroMiles, requires the matching type rating, and the runway has to be long enough.
An airline that behaves like one
SOAR is the platform underneath. This is the part that did not exist before, and it is what makes the airline feel real between flights.
Gate budgets
Every airport has a finite number of gates, and every flight is assigned a real one. Conflicts get flagged. Space is no longer infinite.
Tail tracking
Each aircraft is a specific registration with a position, a history, and lifetime stats. The airframe you fly today has been somewhere before.
Landing analysis
Touchdown rate, G-force, bounce, centerline, rollout, braking, and touchdown zone, all scored, with a plain-English debrief of what you actually did.
Flight score breakdown
Every flight gets a score, and the breakdown tells you exactly why you lost points instead of just handing you a number.
Live FAA delay feed
The National Airspace System delay feed (ground stops and more) shows up before you bid, so you can see what the day looks like.
Tours
Multi-leg adventures that track themselves as you fly them. Pick one up, fly the legs, watch it complete.
Trip builder
Drop any airports in. It finds scheduled flights between them and generates charters for the gaps, so you can build the trip you want.
Streak chains
Five parallel streak chains reward you for showing up in different ways, not just one.
There are 98 active awards to earn on top of all of this. Some you can chase. Some will find you.
Your logbook came with you
A migration is only worth it if you keep what you earned. You did.
- Every hour you flew carried over
- Every PIREP came with you
- Your flying history feeds your rank and standing
- Type ratings are granted from what you have flown
Your logbook is the foundation the new progression is built on. The more you flew, the further along you start.
For Xbox and console pilots
The web platform works on any device, including Xbox and console. You are a full member of the airline.
What you can do
Take the written exams, file manual PIREPs, and progress in rank like anyone else. Your type-rating tier never affects your rank points, so your career advances on the same ladder as everyone.
What needs a PC
The ACARS desktop client is PC-only, because it hooks into SimConnect, FSUIPC, and X-Plane. ACARS flying earns a modest per-flight bonus on top, but the core career is open to you whether or not you run it.
The board is open
Your logbook is waiting and the network is live. Sign in and pick your first leg back.