Keyboard Shortcuts

The keys shown are your computer’s: Ctrl and Alt on Windows, ⌘ and Option on a Mac.

Keys go to the window whose title bar has stripes, the Manager or the Terminal; the other’s title is plain and grey. Click in a window, or on its title bar, to give it the keys.

Windows and tabs

Alt+S Schedule, Alt+F Fleet, Alt+K Market, Alt+R Routes, Alt+L Slots, Alt+T Maintenance, Alt+W Crew, Alt+M Map, Alt+E WX (the weather map), Alt+P Reports, Alt+X Fax: Go to a tab. The letters stay the same wherever the tab is. Each tab shows its own.
Alt+/: The console, with the cursor at the prompt.
Alt+A: The Alerts, to pick from with ↑ ↓, read with Enter, open with O and acknowledge with A.
Alt+H: These help pages.
Alt+G: The teletype messages, to scroll with ↑ ↓ and search with F.
Ctrl+\: Minimise the terminal to its tabs along the right-hand edge, giving the schedule the width, and bring it back. Clicking any tab, Alt+/ or Alt+H also brings it back. While it’s minimised, the Console tab counts the lines you haven’t seen.
The ◀ box at the end of the Manager’s tabs: On a screen wider than 1980, pin the tab you’re on to a window on the left, beside the Manager. One tab at a time: pinning another sends the first back. The window’s close box puts it back in the Manager.
Ctrl+,: Settings.
Ctrl+S: Save the company. It’s saved on its own every few minutes too.
Ctrl+W: Close the company and go back to the welcome window, after asking: save it first, or don’t.
Ctrl+Q: Quit to the desktop, after asking: save the company first, or don’t.
Esc: In a cabin plan, back to where it was opened.

In every table

↑ ↓, PgUp PgDn, Home End: Choose a row.
Alt ← →: When there are more columns than fit, ◄ and ► show at the ends of the headings. These scroll the columns sideways one at a time; the first columns, which say which row it is, stay put. Alt Home and Alt End go to either end. A sideways swipe on a trackpad, Shift and the scroll wheel, or clicking ◄ and ► do the same.

In dialogs

← → or Tab: Choose a button, then Enter or Space to press it. Where ← and → do something else in a dialog, such as choosing an aircraft type, use Tab.

In a flight’s panel

D: Delay the flight: type the new time, or ↑ ↓ for five minutes either way, and ← → to choose its aircraft.
C: Cancel the flight, after confirming with Enter; its passengers then rebook or take a refund. See Flights and passengers.
Esc: Close the panel. Clicking the window icon on a flight on the schedule opens it.
Tab: With two flights open, move to the other.

In an airport code field

/: Find an airport by name, code, country and size, and put its code in the field.

In the fleet

M: Switch to the Market tab (Alt+K); Alt+F comes back to the fleet.
T: Open the market on aircraft of the selected aircraft’s type.
C: Show the selected aircraft’s cabin plan. ↑ ↓ and the scroll wheel move along it.
I: About the selected aircraft’s type: see Aircraft types. W there opens the manufacturer’s website.
R: Give the selected aircraft a new registration. Its earlier ones are listed beneath it, as Formerly. A wet-leased aircraft keeps its lessor’s registration.

In the market

Enter: Lease the selected aircraft: Y then sends the request to the lessor.
C: Show the selected aircraft’s cabin plan.
I: About the selected aircraft’s type.
F, A: Show only aircraft that can fly a route (type its two airports; ↑ ↓ pick one of yours), or that can use an airport.
W: Show all leases, dry leases only, or wet leases only.
X: Clear the filters.
S, R: Change what the list is sorted by; reverse it. Clicking a heading sorts by it.

In the route manager

N: Open a new route.
S: Schedule a service and its return on the selected route. In the dialog, ← → choose the aircraft, D reverses the direction, Tab moves between the days, flight numbers and times (on the days, 1–7 turn Monday to Sunday on and off, and A makes it daily), L switches the times between UTC and each airport’s local time, T takes a turn in minutes and times the return from it, ↑ ↓ step through times that use slots you hold, and S opens the slots. Type over a flight number to choose your own. Backspace on the return’s time leaves the return out. Enter adds both flights and closes the dialog.
L: Lease an aircraft that can fly the selected route.
Tab: Move between the routes and the selected route’s daily services.
Del: Close the selected route, or remove the selected service from the timetable.

In the slots

↑ ↓, ← →: Choose the hour, and the outbound or the return. Tab moves to the list of routes.
Enter: Stage the selected leg, or take it off if it’s staged.
C: Request the slots for every staged leg at once.
T: Set your preferred turnaround.
A, D: Change the aircraft type the times are for; reverse the direction.

In maintenance control

← →, Shift ← →: Move the selected visit a day, or an hour, earlier or later.
P: Send the selected visit to another place that can do the work.
Enter, Esc: Book the change, or undo it. See Maintenance.

In crew control

Tab: Move between flight crew, engineers, people and candidates.
Enter: Open the selected person’s record, or offer to hire the selected candidate.
C: On the engineers: order contract engineers for the rating selected.
T, L: On a record: send them on type training, or let them go. See Crew.

The schedule

Alt ← →: Look back and ahead. The schedule stays where it is and the now line moves across it as time passes; off the edge, its time waits at that side with an arrow. With Scroll with the mouse wheel ticked in the Schedule tab of Settings, a sideways swipe on a trackpad, or Shift and the scroll wheel, does the same, and the scroll wheel scrolls the aircraft. It’s unticked at first.
Space: Back to now, following the clock again. Already there, the now line flashes. This works from the console’s prompt too, while nothing is typed there.
Space held, and drag: Hold Space and drag the schedule with the mouse to move it: sideways back and ahead in time, and up and down the fleet. Let go of Space without dragging and it goes back to now instead. The scroll bars beside and under the schedule do the same. While the schedule isn’t following the clock, the now line is amber.
View ▸ Now Line: Put the now line a fifth, a third or half of the way in. The console’s NOW 1/5, NOW 1/3 and NOW 1/2 do the same.

The clock

P or 0: Pause and resume. P does so unless the program open uses P itself.
1 to 8: Clock speed, from real time (1 s/s) through 15 seconds (15 s/s) to 3 hours (3 h/s) a second.
F: Fast-forward at 3 h/s until five minutes before the next flight leaves or lands, then back to the speed before, as the ▶▶ button after the speeds does. F again, or choosing a speed, stops it.
Ctrl + and Ctrl −, or + and − outside a typing field: Zoom the schedule, or the map while it’s shown, in and out, as the buttons along its top do. Ctrl and the scroll wheel do the same.
Ctrl+0: Back to the schedule’s actual size, as the magnifying glass between − and + does. On the map, show everything in the schedule and the fleet again.