What is coming in the future?
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The World of Airports developer team has always been relatively open about their plans for the future, and while they never have gone as far as publishing a roadmap or dates, we do have a reasonably good understanding of what will come in the future. Things do change frequently, and a good chunk of what they unveil has never come to fruition, or took years. (Look at MSY, the 767, and Alliances, to name just a few)
The next update is not currently known. If it is 3.3.2, it will likely have minor bug fixes and more 757 liveries. If it is 3.4.0 it will include the below.
3.4.0
3.4.0 is the next major update following 3.3.0, and it is targeting release around the end of the year. This likely means December 24 or 25, 2025, because the dev team has a habit of releasing updates on Christmas.
Boeing 747 Family
All variants are planned, ranging from the 100 to the Dreamlifter, with the possible exception of the 747-400D
The majority of liveries will be events, due to their older nature. They are being developed in early preparation for Kai Tak.
COMAC C909/C919
Charlie has all but confirmed that these are targeting release alongside HKG. This would make sense, because HKG is one of, if not the, most visited airport by those aircraft that is not in mainland China.
Stuff we are reasonably confident about
This category is all the things that have been mentioned repeatedly or we know for certain is in development to some stage or another
Airports
Generic Airports
The concept of generic airports is essentially that the dev team will create several models of airports, which aren’t a realistic recreation of any particular airport, but look similar to many across the globe. The value of this system is that it enables development to be made much faster. This system will NOT replace the high-quality models that the team already produces but simply will augment them. The most played/appreciated generic airports will be upgraded to the level of realism that is expected of current airports.
The smallest variant of generic airport nears completion in early May 2025.
Players will vote to determine the next generic airports.
Aircraft
Airbus A330 Remodel, A330neo
The A330neo, a highly requested model, was confirmed by Kubasan in Devblog 28.
It is likely coming in 2026, although it is not impossible that it could be in 3.4.0, around Christmas.
Charlie has confirmed that the A33x work will begin after 3.3.0 releases.
Boeing 737 Family
This one will take a while, but we now have enough information to say it is definitely coming. 350ish liveries are planned.
LET L-410
A teaser from September 2025 invited the WoA community to find an airport from a chart, and determine what aircraft would be added to the game next. The airport in question was Kunovice, in Czechia, and the aircraft thus being added is the LET L-410. This aircraft was actually announced to be in the works as an April Fools joke in 2024, and apparently the devs have not forgotten.
The light gray image is the 2024 April Fools aircraft, not an official model. The model in question is an open-source aircraft not made by Flyboys.
Features
Alliances
This one had an entire Devblog dedicated to it! If you want more info, I highly recommend checking it out. Essentially, though, there will be ingame alliances, in which each member is responsible for a specific airport. The goal is to have as many routes as possible across all members. There will be a message board, and more routes = higher rating = greater rewards. Alliances will have their own set of liveries. there will be the option to jointly manage some fleet aircraft, and there will be a hangar system. New members will be added by a vote of all current members. You can also be removed. The alliance will have a global radar that shows all connections and aircraft operated by the alliance.
Cross-Platform Account Linking
This is probably not coming in 3.3.0, but it is possible. This would finally enable players to have one account on both android and iOS!
Upgraded Animations
Motion capture is being utilized by the WoA devs for upgraded handling crew animations!
Livery Customization
Livery Customization is one of the most requested features and has been for years, and the dev team has finally found a workable solution and is working on implementing it. essentially, all the liveries that are currently usable can be rotated, scaled, and repositioned on any part of the aircraft that you would normally see paint on. Not the wings or landing gear, for example. you can also add text and airline logos. This is NOT freehand painting, but it is pretty close.
Also, as confirmed in devblog 29, logos are in progress too, which is huge!
Other
New Game
This was developed by a handful of new Flyboys developers as a learning exercise. It is fully playable offline.
Stuff we think is possible but not yet certain.
This is for things the developers have talked about or hinted at but that we cannot yet consider confirmed.
Airports
Yellowknife
Yellowknife airport in northern Canada is home to Buffalo Airlines. In the September 2024 Dev Chat, someone asked what one of the next airports would be, and Kuba responded that it would be a special one with a based airline partnership, and to expect it to take a while. Later in the dev chat, someone else asked if he could hint at the partnership, and his response was a buffalo gif. Buffalo airlines makes the most sense as an airline partner, and they are based in Yellowknife. They also operate the DC-3, which he is known to want to be added to the game.
September 2025 update: Jedi (a dev) has said that Yellowknife may never have been seriously planned.
African Airport
It has long been known that an African airport is very high on the Dev wish list, and based on previous dev comments in dev chats, it is very likely it will be in South Africa, and more specifically either Cape Town or Johannesburg/ O.R. Tambo. Another plausible option is Cairo in Egypt.
HKG - Hong Kong Kai Tak
Kubasan has long wanted this in-game, but it would utilize purely classical aircraft and thus not come until such aircraft exist in large numbers.
"As I’ve mentioned before, Kai Tak is a very unique plan that doesn’t quite fit into the usual WoA content pipeline. It’s a retired airport, and the only traffic that would truly make sense there is classic aircraft variants.
So yes—Kai Tak will come , but only once we have enough classic aircraft in the game to do it justice. When it’s released, it will be served exclusively by these classic planes and will be available only from other playable airports .
It’s definitely something special, and we want to make sure it gets the treatment it deserves."
-Kubasan
Aircraft
Douglas DC-3
Kubasan has mentioned repeatedly that the DC-3 is his favorite aircraft, and one of his top choices to add to the game. Also, if Yellowknife is added, the DC-3 would likely be too, because one of the primary aircraft operated by Buffalo Airlines is the DC-3.
Business Jets/Helicopters
The devs have long been known to want these in-game but haven’t had the time to develop them that we know of.
Features
New Cargo System
Next to nothing is currently known about this, beyond that it is in development and is likely quite a ways out.
New Events
Next to nothing is currently known about this, beyond that it is in development and is likely quite a ways out. MAY have something to do with challenges.
Stand/Runway Maintenance
Next to nothing is currently known about this, beyond that it is in development and is likely quite a ways out.
Revamped Demand System
Next to nothing is currently known about this, beyond that it is in development and is likely quite a ways out.
Challenges
Almost nothing is known about this, but it was teased in a dev chat over a year ago as being an alternate way of making money that would be linked to alliances. More recently, Kubasan discussed it in a devblog, and revealed that it will essentially be a system of events which will require the alliance to coordinate to achieve tasks and earn rewards and bonuses.