ConfluenceAir

ST. LOUIS, Missouri — Confluence Air is entering the next phase of its development with a new Denver hub, two Boeing 777-300ERs, and an expanded charter operation built around the recently launched JetCard business aviation environment. The St. Louis-based virtual airline, headquartered at Spirit of St. Louis Airport (KSUS), has established Denver International Airport (KDEN) as its second hub. Denver will initially serve as Confluence Air’s western gateway and the home of its new Boeing 777-300ER fleet. Two 777-300ERs are being added to the airline. Both will initially be based at Denver and will operate across both Confluence Air’s scheduled network and its charter division. The first aircraft, N770CF, has already entered charter service. Its permanent Confluence Air livery is currently in development. JetCard Adds a New Dimension to Confluence AirThe expansion follows Confluence Air’s move into the recently released JetCard business aviation environment. Rather than treating JetCard as a separate activity from the virtual airline, Confluence Air has incorporated it into its existing charter operation. JetCard provides a business aviation economy built around generated client trips, aircraft ownership and leasing, operating expenses, company finances, reputation, bases and pilot employment. For Confluence Air, that has created a second operational layer alongside its phpVMS-based scheduled airline. Scheduled services continue to operate through the airline’s established infrastructure, while JetCard is being used to support private, corporate, sports and group charter flying. The result is a charter operation in which aircraft move in response to actual generated assignments rather than a fixed list of fictional charter schedules. That distinction has already taken Confluence well beyond St. Louis. Recent charter work has taken the airline’s Boeing 737-800 from KSUS to Ketchikan, Alaska, while corporate and private assignments have generated operations across North America and Mexico. The 777 now extends that model worldwide. N770CF Goes Straight to WorkConfluence Air’s first 777 will not make a ceremonial positioning flight to Denver. Instead, N770CF begins its career with the airline on a four-leg international charter sequence originating at Boeing’s Everett facility. The routing is: KPAE → KMHR → LSGG → SCDA → KDEN The assignment combines two back-to-back corporate incentive programs. The first begins with a West Coast pickup at Mather Airport before carrying 109 passengers to Geneva for a corporate recognition event. From Geneva, the aircraft transitions directly into a second engagement carrying a 125-person banking incentive group to Iquique, Chile. The final sector brings the second group to Denver and simultaneously positions N770CF at its new home. No empty positioning flight is required between the two engagements. For Confluence Air, that is precisely the kind of operation the 777 was acquired to perform. Denver Becomes Confluence Air's Second HubDenver represents more than a parking location for the new widebody. KDEN has now been established as a Confluence Air hub in both the airline’s operational planning and phpVMS infrastructure. Spirit of St. Louis remains Confluence Air’s headquarters and primary home. Denver serves a different purpose. The new hub provides a western gateway for longer domestic services, international operations and charter flying while giving the airline room to develop a true long-haul network. Both 777-300ERs will initially be based there. Scheduled 777 routes from Denver are now being developed. The aircraft will remain available for suitable charter assignments between scheduled operations. That dual-use model is intentional. Confluence Air does not maintain a separate widebody charter fleet simply to keep scheduled aircraft isolated from charter work. When operationally appropriate, the 777s can move between the two sides of the airline. A Charter Fleet With Distinct MissionsThe 777 joins a charter operation that has expanded considerably during August. Confluence Air’s Boeing 737-800 provides the backbone of its large-group charter business. The aircraft is suited to sports teams, corporate groups, entertainment movements and other missions requiring a complete narrowbody aircraft. The airline has also added a Phenom 300E for smaller executive movements. At the other end of the private charter product is a Boeing Business Jet 2, based on the 737-800. The BBJ2 provides a genuine executive cabin rather than a high-density passenger configuration, including conference and lounge spaces suitable for corporate and VVIP assignments. Confluence Air expects delivery of the BBJ2 during the third quarter. The 777-300ER now occupies the long-range, large-group end of the operation. Together, the aircraft allow Confluence Air Charter to match substantially different aircraft to the mission rather than treating “charter” as a single type of flying. More Aircraft, but Also More Flying for PilotsThere is another reason behind the expansion. Confluence Air wants pilots joining the VA to have somewhere to go. The scheduled fleet was originally centered around regional flying, including ATR turboprops and Bombardier CRJs. Those aircraft remain central to the airline and its St. Louis network. But a pilot interested in larger equipment can now remain within Confluence Air. The Boeing 737 provides a narrowbody option. The Boeing 777 provides a widebody option. Charter operations add assignments that may bear little resemblance to the scheduled network. That means a pilot can spend one evening flying a regional sector into KSUS, operate a 737 charter on another day, and eventually take a 777 across the Atlantic or Pacific without changing virtual airlines. Confluence Air sees that variety as particularly important as it continues recruiting. The airline is not attempting to become enormous simply by adding aircraft. The objective is to make the aircraft it does operate worth flying. Scheduled Airline and Charter OperatorThe Denver expansion also makes the structure of Confluence Air clearer. There are now two complementary operating environments under the same identity. The scheduled airline remains centered on phpVMS, with published routes, assigned fleets, regional and mainline operations, and the developing KSUS and KDEN hub structure. Confluence Air Charter operates more dynamically. JetCard provides client-driven missions and an economic framework that determines where aircraft and passengers need to move. The two meet through shared aircraft such as the 737 and 777. This gives Confluence something the airline did not have when its first regional schedules were built: a reason for an aircraft to leave the normal network and go somewhere completely unexpected. Ketchikan was one example. Geneva and Iquique will now be another. Building the Supporting EnvironmentThe expansion is occurring alongside continued development of the broader Confluence Air operation. The airline maintains its own website (confluenceair.com) and crew site (utilizing a phpVMS installation hosted by Ttfdi) and has developed operational relationships with SimBrief and SayIntentions.AI. Confluence also uses a wider flight-simulation ecosystem that includes VATSIM and other familiar planning and tracking tools. Development also continues at the airline’s virtual KSUS campus. The custom Spirit of St. Louis environment includes Confluence Air facilities and is being further developed with updated taxiways, parking and airport infrastructure. Denver now adds a second geographic center around which that operating model can grow. The Paint Can WaitThere is one thing N770CF will not have for its first trip: its final paint. A complete Confluence Air 777 livery is being developed, along with additional custom artwork for the expanding charter fleet. The airline decided not to wait. N770CF will operate its inaugural charter in house colors and receive its permanent identity afterward. For a virtual airline that has increasingly built its schedules around the idea that aircraft should have somewhere useful to go, the decision was straightforward. There are 109 passengers waiting at Mather. Geneva is next. And when the work is finished, Denver is home. CFE · CONFLUENCE Spirit of St. Louis Airport · St. Louis, Missouri

The St. Louis virtual airline opens charter flying to every pilot on the roster, alongside an eight-programme scheduled network of ATR turboprop Lines and CRJ-900 ServicesCHESTERFIELD, Mo. — 23 July 2026 — Confluence Air, a virtual airline operating in Microsoft Flight Simulator and X-Plane, has placed a three-aircraft Boeing 737-800 charter division into service and opened its full scheduled tour network to all pilots. The charter division flies contract work across North America on aircraft registered N800CF, N801CF and N802CF, each wearing the airline's own livery. It operates alongside a two-tier scheduled network built around the airline's hub at Spirit of St. Louis Airport. Charter: single-date flyingCharter does not work like a timetable, and that is the point. Every charter movement is one specific aircraft movement on one specific date. A flight appears on the pilot roster on its operating date and comes off it the following day. There is no repeat, no weekly frequency, and no second chance — a movement flown is a movement gone. Availability is managed automatically. A job runs daily and brings each movement up as its date arrives, so the charter board shows what is genuinely bookable rather than a season's worth of future flying. The division currently holds four client programmes totalling 118 movements between July 2026 and April 2027, covering sports and touring-entertainment work. Charter aircraft carry a fixed full cabin: the aircraft is chartered whole, so revenue does not depend on how many seats are filled. Charter flying carries no rank requirement and no qualification. Any pilot on the roster can bid a charter movement. Confluence Air does not name charter clients. Charter work is described by purpose, route and date. The airline holds no rights to client names or marks, and none appear on the aircraft or in any public material. The 737-800 liveryThe charter fleet wears the standard Confluence Air scheme — the same identity as the regional fleet, applied to a larger aircraft. There is no separate charter brand and no third-party scheme. Each registration is a distinct airframe rather than a swappable tail number, and all three are published as a livery pack for the PMDG Boeing 737-800 on flightsim.to under the ConfluenceAir profile. The 737-800 is charter equipment only. It is not added to scheduled routes, and the airline's published aircraft-type count describes scheduled service and excludes it. Confluence Air remains a regional carrier that happens to own charter capability, not the reverse. Lines and Services: two tiers, thirty-seven legsThe scheduled network is deliberately split in two, and the vocabulary is strict. Lines are the feeder runs, flown on the ATR 42-600. Four of them work outward from St. Louis: the River Line to Kansas City, the Illinois Line to Chicago, the Southern Line to Indianapolis and the Ozark Line to Little Rock. These are short sectors into regional fields — the work a turboprop exists to do. Services are the trunk rotations, flown on the two-cabin CRJ-900. Four of them run east and west: Northeast to Boston, Newark and Washington; Mid-Atlantic to Washington, Newark and Boston; Southeast to Atlanta, Charleston and Tampa; and Western to Denver and Chicago. Services are multi-day rotations with overnight positions away from base, and each begins and ends at St. Louis. Together the eight programmes carry thirty-seven legs. How credit worksA leg is tied to one specific scheduled flight, not to an airport pair. Flying the same city pair under a different flight number does not credit it. Progress is recorded automatically when a pilot's flight report is accepted, and the pilot's dashboard shows where each programme was left off. Charter flying sits outside this structure entirely and does not credit Line or Service progress. About Confluence AirConfluence Air is a virtual airline operated as a flight-simulation project. It is not a real-world air carrier and sells no transportation. It operates as an independent regional feeder from Spirit of St. Louis Airport in Chesterfield, Missouri, flying ATR 42-600 and ATR 72-600 turboprops and Bombardier CRJ-550, CRJ-700 and CRJ-900 regional jets on its scheduled network, with a Boeing 737-800 charter fleet alongside. Pilots fly on VATSIM, with AI air traffic control, or offline, in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and 2024 and X-Plane 12. There is no hours requirement and no check ride. Where the rivers meet, routes begin. Web: confluenceair.com Contact: [email protected]

Confluence Air has launched its Regional Lines — four named ATR-42 feeder routes flying out of St. Louis (KSUS). If you've wanted a regional VA that takes the short-haul side of the hobby seriously, this one's built for it. A quick intro if we're new to you. Confluence Air is an independent regional carrier modeled on the United Express feeders: scheduled service to 27 destinations, a fleet of CRJ-550/700/900s and ATR 42/72-600s, real flight numbers, and a phpVMS crew portal that logs every leg through smartCARS. We fly on VATSIM, with SayIntentions AI ATC for 24/7 control, or offline — MSFS 2020, MSFS 2024, or X-Plane 12. The name comes from St. Louis sitting where the Missouri and Mississippi meet. Where the rivers meet, routes begin. The Regional Lines are our ATR-42 network. Each line runs a string of short hops out to a regional hub and an express leg back to St. Louis: River Line — up the Missouri River corridor to Kansas City Illinois Line — across the Illinois prairie to Chicago O'Hare Southern Line — through the confluence country to Indianapolis Ozark Line — the old Frisco railroad route through the Ozarks to Little Rock These are 20-to-40-minute legs into airports most networks skip — Columbia, Quincy, Cape Girardeau, Joplin, Paducah. It's the flying the ATR-42 was made for, and all four lines are live right now as flyable tours in the crew portal. Fly a line end to end and you earn its badge. Joining is free and setup takes a few minutes — grab smartCARS, pick a line, and fly. Website: confluenceair.com Discord: discord.gg/EGKAefbNGB

Confluence Air is a new virtual airline flying regional routes out of Spirit of St. Louis (KSUS) — on VATSIM, SayIntentions.AI, or fully offline. We operate as an independent United Express–style feeder — short legs, real-world-style regional operations, the CRJ family and the ATR 72-600. ICAO CFE, callsign CONFLUENCE. We built it to be realistic to fly and easy to join. What you fly 40 scheduled routes out of KSUS, with more added over time. Fleet: CRJ-550, 700, 900, 1000, and the ATR 72-600. Embraer 175 on the roadmap. MSFS 2020, MSFS 2024, and X-Plane 12 all supported — X-Plane pilots welcome, not an afterthought. How you fly VATSIM for live ATC, SayIntentions.AI for AI ATC any time of day, or fully offline on your own schedule. Your call, every flight — all three count toward your hours. Free ACARS (smartCARS Community) tracks your flight and files the report automatically. SimBrief is built into dispatch. No entry exam, no check ride. Register and fly your first leg the same day. How it's run Ranks progress on hours flown. Custom award badges. A full operations manual and a proper flight schedule behind every leg. An active Discord where every flight posts in real time. We fly our own original livery — designed in-house, free on flightsim.to. Founding pilots We're at the founding stage, and the pilots who join now are the ones building it. Fly during the founding period and the permanent Founding Pilot award is yours to keep. Site: https://confluenceair.com Discord: https://discord.gg/EGKAefbNGB See you on the line out of St. Louis.