ConfluenceAir

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.