Economy & Global Constants

8.1 Landing & parking fees

Landing fee

7 Cr × aircraft MTOW ÷ 1 000 lbs

• Flat constant — no airport-size modifier, no time-of-day, no season.
• Charged when a flight is registered.
• Airport owners can set a lower custom rate — never higher than the default.
• No takeoff fee, no ATC fee, no handling fee.

Example: a 500 000 lbs widebody landing anywhere = 3 500 Cr landing fee.

Parking fee (hourly)

Same formula as the FBO & Hangar chapter — reproduced here for convenience:

Your own FBO covers aircraft within its combined hangar/tie-down capacity, most expensive first. Overflow is chargeable. Basecamps and paused companies are exempt; skills and custom airport-owner tariffs can reduce the charge (§2.7).

8.2 Bank loans

Access requirement: Bank Loans Agreement. Loan Interest Reduction improves the rate but is not needed to unlock borrowing.

How much you can borrow

Available capacity = (min(10 000 000 Cr, share capital × 3 + company value) − outstanding principals) × (1 + reputation) × difficulty factor

Reputation is a fraction (50% = 0.5). The 10 M ceiling applies before the reputation and difficulty multipliers, so it is not a final loan cap. Existing unpaid principal reduces capacity first.

Difficulty modifier on capacity:

Annual interest rate

Your interest rate is then adjusted:

• Divided by (1 + reputation ÷ 10) → higher reputation, lower rate.
• Reduced by Loan Interest Reduction level × 1 %.
• Read the quoted rate: the current calculation only substitutes 5% if the adjusted rate is negative. A non-negative rate below 5% is retained; there is no general 5% floor.

Loan terms offered

• Durations: 48 / 96 / 144 / 192 weeks (12 / 24 / 36 / 48 periods of four weeks).
• Rate multipliers by duration: ×1.0 / ×1.5 / ×1.9 / ×2.0.
• Up to 17 proposals across six amount fractions and selected durations; non-positive amounts are filtered out. Read the actual list rather than assuming a complete rectangular set of offers.

Repayment

• Deducted automatically every 7 days during the daily finance check at 04:45 UTC.
• Early repayment penalty: 10 % of the remaining principal.

8.3 Weekly management fee — Challenge Mode only

This fee (charged every Wednesday at 06:00 UTC) applies only to companies in Challenge Mode. Standard career companies never pay this fee.

Fleet portion (if you own or rent more than 5 aircraft)

The fee increases with fleet size, up to a cap:

FBO portion (if you own more than 3 FBOs)

A surcharge is added on top of your regular FBO weekly fees based on how many FBOs you own beyond 3.

8.4 Company auto-pause

Trigger: no login for 7 consecutive days.

VAs are excluded. Already-paused or deleted companies are excluded.

What changes when paused

How to unpause

The server resumes an eligible company when you return to it; there is no need to wait for the next daily cycle. Freelance mode has separate rules and does not itself resume Advanced company management. Individual scheduled activities still follow their next processing pass.

8.5 Employee salaries

Paid every day at 05:00 UTC. A salary fires when 7 or more days have passed since the last payment.

Eligible employees: non-player characters, not on a freelance contract, and from a company that has been active in the past 15 days.

Pay formula

Regular employees:

salary = max(weekly guaranteed salary × days_elapsed ÷ 7, hourly rate × hours_flown)

The guaranteed minimum is prorated if fewer than 7 days have elapsed.

Freelance employees:

salary = max(3 hours of wages, hours_flown × hourly rate)

Guaranteed minimum = 3 hours of wages per payment (not a weekly prorated amount).

8.6 Account codes — your financial statements

Understanding these codes helps you read your company's income statement and balance sheet.

Revenue

Expenses

FBO fuel stock is an asset, not an operating expense. When you buy fuel for your FBO tank, that money becomes the value of your fuel inventory. It is shown on the balance sheet under assets — not as a cost in your income statement.

The three statements — what each one answers

OnAir keeps a real chart of accounts with the same four categories real accountants use (Revenues, Expenses, Assets, Liabilities), and derives three complementary reports from it. Each answers a different question:

Why buying an aircraft never appears on the Income Statement

Buying an aircraft is an asset swap: cash becomes a flyable asset you still own. Nothing was consumed, so nothing is expensed — the Income Statement keeps measuring pure operating performance (revenues earned minus costs consumed). Real-world accounting works exactly the same way: a capital purchase is capitalised on the balance sheet (IAS 16), and the cash paid out is classified as an investing activity on the cash flow statement (IAS 7). A real airline's income statement has no "bought 15 aircraft" line either.

Worked example — you earn 300 000 Cr from charters this week, spend 80 000 Cr on fuel, fees and wages, and buy a light jet for 2 000 000 Cr:

You were profitable that week even though your cash collapsed — profitability and cash position are different questions, which is exactly why separate statements exist. What does hit the Income Statement is the cost of owning and operating the aircraft: weekly ownership fees, maintenance, fuel, crew, landing fees. The wear itself reaches your books through the Balance Sheet, whose fleet line tracks each airframe's market value (§9.3) — OnAir's equivalent of depreciation.

Paid above book value? A brand-new aircraft costs 1.2 × base price but enters your assets at market value — Company Value dips by the premium at purchase, like a new car losing value as it leaves the dealership.

Official references:

• SEC — Beginners' Guide to Financial Statements — sec.gov/about/reports-publications/beginners-guide-financial-statements
• IAS 1 (Presentation of Financial Statements), IAS 7 (Statement of Cash Flows), IAS 16 (Property, Plant and Equipment) — ifrs.org/issued-standards/list-of-standards/

8.7 Company level

• XP to level up: level × 1 000 (linear — not exponential).
• On level up: +2 skill points granted.

Level-gated features

8.8 Passenger class economics

Standard passenger weight: 190 lbs. Seat weight: 63 lbs.

8.9 Rescue mission ranges

8.10 Starting bonus — Advanced Management unlock

When you upgrade from Freelance (Onboarding) mode to Advanced Career:

Your existing freelance cash is also doubled at unlock.

There is no creation fee when starting a company from scratch.

What the difficulty level sets. On Cumulus you choose Easy, Classic or Realistic when you create a company. Stratus and Thunder companies are created as Realistic, with no choice. It sets the starting equity above, the starting reputation (70 % / 50 % / 30 %, which then evolves with your flights) and a loan capacity multiplier (×1.5 / ×1.0 / ×0.7) that stays for the life of the company. A lower reputation also lowers the hourly rate used for freelance job pay (700 + 500 × reputation, in Cr per hour), and a lower capacity or reputation can raise loan interest rates.

It does not decide whether you can use AI pilots: AI flights depend on the world, and Thunder forbids them. It is also separate from the Challenge Mode economy, which the world sets when the company is created and which can be changed afterwards.

8.11 Aircraft wear constants

No idle condition decay. Your aircraft's condition only drops from flight hours and specific events — not from sitting on the ramp.

8.12 Flight duty caps

8.13 Leasing vs. owning

Accounting view: lease and rental payments are operating expenses — they hit your Income Statement every week. A purchase is an investment and never does (see §8.6).

8.14 Industry fuel supply

Local Dealer is separate from FBO Refueling: eligible player factories within 250 NM sell whole fuel tanks to the server, nearest first, at the local dealer price when an FBO orders fuel or system restocking runs. There is no Local Dealer purchase outside that radius and no change to the FBO customer's order price. See §3.10.

8.15 Airport ownership

Weekly kit cost by airport Size

Revenue per flight as airport owner

• Human-only world: human-flight payout is doubled.
• AI flights earn 1/20th of the human rate.

The kits must be sitting at that airport on the due date. Kits held in another warehouse, or still flying toward the field, do not count — the payment simply fails as if you had none. Plan the delivery, not just the production.

Falling behind. One missed week is tolerated: the airport is flagged

At risk and the arrears roll into the next bill. Miss a second time and the airport is taken back. Flying the kits in before that second deadline costs you nothing but the trip.

What the traffic actually pays. Only flights pay the subsidy. The passengers and cargo that transited are counted and displayed, but they are worth nothing — they are there to tell you how busy the field is, not to earn. Every counter resets at each payout.

8.16 Airport boosts

Owning an airport unlocks a Boosts tab on it. A boost is a renewable benefit attached to that field, and it applies to everyone's activity there — including yours. There are six, each with three levels:

What a boost costs

The price is not in credits. A boost costs its own level in Airport Ownership Kits, every week — level 1 costs 1 kit a week, level 2 costs 2, level 3 costs 3. All six types cost the same; only the level moves the number.

The same rule as the rent applies, and it is the one that catches people:

The kits must be sitting at that airport. Kits in another warehouse, or in transit, do not count. The first week is debited the moment you buy, and again every seven days for as long as auto-renew is on.

And the constraint that decides whether any of this is reachable at all:

Kits are not sold by the system. No amount of money buys one. They come from another player on the Trading Hall, or from your own Airport Ownership Kit Facility (§10.4). A boost you cannot feed simply lapses.

Reading the value

Three of the six pay you back in credits (Company Jobs, Company Routes, Freelance), one pays in progression (XP), one in goods (Industry) and one in time (FBO Workshop). The Freelance credit boost reaches +150% at level 3. Company Jobs instead uses the airport-Size table in §7.3.6. Industry adds efficiency points before the production-time formula; it does not promise the same percentage of extra goods, and does not shorten an already minimum-length cycle.

Remember the boost helps every pilot who flies there, not only you. On a field other companies use, you are subsidising their queries and their XP as well as your own.

8.17 Internal balance constants (for reference)

8.18 TL;DR

• Landing fee: MTOW × 0.007 Cr/lb. No airport-size variation.
• Loans: Bank Loans Agreement unlocks access; read the adjusted quote, which can be below 5%. Early repayment adds 10% to remaining principal.
• Weekly management fee: Challenge Mode only — standard companies never pay it.
• Auto-pause: after 7 days of inactivity. Unpause by simply logging in.
• Salaries: paid every 7 days at 05:00 UTC; higher of guaranteed minimum or hours × rate.
• Airport ownership scales steeply with size — Size 5 costs 50 kits/week but earns 2 000 Cr per human flight.
• Starting bonus at Advanced Management unlock: 470 k Cr (Easy) → 10 k Cr (Realistic, survival world).
• Aircraft purchases never hit the Income Statement — they are asset swaps (cash → fleet), visible on the Cash Flow and Balance Sheet only (§8.6).