We hope you all had a fantastic festive season and managed to get some well‑earned rest. We… did not, as you will see in this development update. While most people were tucking into leftovers and pretending not to know what day it was, we kept development rolling straight through the holidays. And it paid off.
We’re kicking off the year with a big milestone: the Historic Airliners DLC for Passenger2x is now fully complete, pending the scheduled update at the end of this month.
In our previous development update post, we mentioned that the following aircraft would be included in the DLC:
After reviewing their operational history, we’ve decided to move these aircraft to the Private Aircraft DLC coming later this year. They’re fantastic machines, but they’re not really “airliners” in the traditional sense, as most were used for charter, corporate, or private operations rather than scheduled commercial service. Shifting them ensures both DLCs stay true to their themes.
So what is included? The free DLC will include the following 76 aircraft with 99 default seat maps:
Something we know you want to know about in this development is regarding AI Flying. The AI flying overhaul for Passenger2x is progressing extremely well. Before we can improve the actual flying behaviour and UI, we need to rebuild the foundations – and that’s exactly what we’re doing.
One of the biggest tasks has been compressing and consolidating your airline’s save files. Previously, a typical save could involve around 186 separate files. We’ve already reduced 110 of them into just 10, with more optimisation still to come.
This will dramatically improve loading, saving, and general data handling. Once this groundwork is complete, we’ll move on to the fun part:
Expect something far more dynamic and informative.
We’ve also got a few surprises lined up for early 2026. We won’t say much yet, partly because we don’t want to spoil anything, and partly because it’s fun watching the community try to guess. We’ll post a development update when the time is right.
When we launched the roadmap and the development blog, we joked about seeing how long it would take for someone to copy our ideas. Turns out the answer was: not very long at all. We’ve already spotted a copycat.
We’re choosing to take it as a compliment – after all, imitation is the sincerest form of “we ran out of ideas, so we borrowed yours”.
If you want to discuss this development update, the Passenger2 Discord community is the best place to be. You can discuss roadmap ideas long before they appear in official updates.
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Although I have yet to purchase this product, I’m impressed with the layout and functionality. Now for a couple of questions. I was surprised not to see any 737’s in your list of available planes. Do you plan on adding that to the fleet? Question #2 – When I first discovered this product, I saw somewhere that cargo flights would soon be added. I didn’t see any mention of that on your page. Are cargo flights still a possibility? I like to fly a lot of Alaska routes, and cargo is an important part of life in Alaska. So is the Boeing 737-700. I hope to see both of those features added soon.
Thanks
Hey! We absolutely have 737s. The list in this post is relating the Historic Airliners DLC only.
We have a separate Cargo DLC coming real soon! https://www.passenger2.com/roadmap/
There is nothing to say you can’t not load passengers and only load cargo.
Hope that helps!