A virtual airline.
With real operations.
Eurostarling has been running a complete airline operation as a flight-simulation platform for 11 years. We are not a logbook, not pay-to-rank, not a toy — we run a simulated scheduled operation with passengers, pricing, disruptions and real ops workflows.
Block time, not playtime.
We build the software sim pilots need to fly a real scheduled operation — and the passenger-side that makes it credible.
A line operation, not random
Summer and winter schedule, fixed slot windows, planned turnarounds. If a flight runs today, it ran yesterday and will run tomorrow.
Real passengers, real inventory
Every flight has real load factors, seat assignments, fare classes and pricing logic. You do not fly an empty sky — you fly a full aircraft.
Free, voluntary, no pay-to-rank
Eurostarling is a passion project. It costs nothing, there is no captain-stripes shop, and rank comes from logged block time only.
Two hubs. Two brands. One network.
Munich (EDDM) has been our operations base since 2017 and remains the larger of the two hubs: Europe, the Middle East and long-haul services to Asia and Africa run from there. Berlin Brandenburg (EDDB) joined when the airport opened — the company is registered here, and the entire North Atlantic departs from here. balejet serves the Swiss market from bases in Geneva and Basel. On top runs a direct programme out of Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Hamburg that skips the hubs entirely.
A full schedule runs in the background.
While you sit in the cockpit, the entire operational stack keeps running: passengers book around the clock, prices rotate by season and load factor, ACARS evaluates every landing, the OCC reacts to delays, and the next line flight is generated automatically.
Real bookings
Sim passengers buy tickets, baggage, seats. Your load factor comes from real inventory — not a random generator.
Dynamic pricing
Prices respond to load, date, season, pax mix and fare class. Fuel surcharges, airport charges and country taxes are shown separately — no net-price myth.
Cargo, baggage & loadsheet
Belly cargo with AWB, physical bag tags from check-in to delivery, loadsheet with real pax masses (EASA M/F split) and tail-specific weights. SimBrief gets an honest zero-fuel weight.
Disruptions, OCC, recovery
A delayed flight cascades into connections, crew rosters and inventory. The OCC manages slots and recoveries — you are part of that operation.
Self-service pax
Passengers check in 24h ahead, buy seat upgrades, book ancillaries from 13 categories, rebook themselves after disruptions — all without crew intervention.
Economics & costs
Every flight is costed against fuel (hedged), crew, maintenance, de-icing, catering, airport charges, marketing and loyalty. What is left is margin — no magic.
11 years. Two moves. One principle.
We started in Stuttgart with two aircraft. What came of it is below — and it explains, along the way, why our network looks the way it does today.
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2015
Two aircraft in Stuttgart
It began as a piece of arithmetic. Anyone flying from Baden-Württemberg into Europe went via Frankfurt or Munich and lost half a day doing it. We flew direct with two A319s. Six destinations, fixed departure times, the same every day.
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2016
ESG in the published schedule
Registered as “ESG”, first published summer season. From here on it was no longer occasional flying but a schedule you could book against.
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2017
The move to Munich
Stuttgart was the right start and the wrong size — one runway, tight night restrictions, no room for a hub. Munich had both, and that year capacity came free in the German market that needed an operator quickly. We took it. Operations have stayed there ever since.
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2018
balejet joins
Switzerland is not in the EU — running scheduled services from there requires an operating licence of your own. Rather than spend years applying for one, we bought one: balejet, at the time a small holiday carrier out of Basel. The name stayed, lower-case as it always was, and with it the Swiss AOC. Today balejet flies everything that touches Switzerland, out of Geneva and Basel.
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2019
Europe complete
More than 80 destinations from Munich, the A320neo as the standard type. For the first time a winter schedule of its own instead of the same frequencies all year — ski destinations in winter, islands in summer.
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2020
Berlin gets a hub
When BER opened, Europe’s last major capital without a hub finally had an airport that could carry one. We took the opportunity: Berlin became our second hub and our registered seat. The build-up ran straight into the pandemic, with the schedule down to a third at times. Operations stayed in Munich — and still are there today.
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2021
One fleet, one family
Full harmonisation on Airbus. For operations that means one maintenance line and one type rating. For you it means the same cabin, the same seat pitch, the same on-board systems — whichever route you book.
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2022
Fares that sit in the table
A move to fare families where the inclusions sit in the table, not in the small print. Alongside it, the frequent flyer programme with separate status and award miles.
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2023
Across the Atlantic — from Berlin
The A330-900 and A350-900 join the fleet. The first long-haul route starts in Berlin by design: nobody flew the Atlantic from there, so travellers had to route via Frankfurt or Amsterdam. New York first, Washington and Chicago the year after. Lie-flat Business, Comfort as a new cabin in between.
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2024
Munich goes intercontinental
Singapore, Delhi and Nairobi from Munich. The demand in the south had been there all along — it was simply routing through other people’s hubs. With that, each hub had a long-haul direction of its own: Berlin the North Atlantic, Munich Asia and Africa.
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2025
The counter comes to you
Check-in 24 hours before departure, boarding pass as a PDF, seat changes still possible afterwards. And if a flight goes, you rebook yourself — no phone call, no queue.
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2026
Two hubs, unevenly grown
249 Airbus, 154 destinations, ten intercontinental routes. Munich has remained the older and larger hub, Berlin the growing one — a three-year head start shows in a route network for a long time. For the winter schedule we are deliberately concentrating Munich: fewer destinations, more departures per day, so that a connection no longer hangs on a single service.
How the VA works technically
StarlingPulse, OCC, tech stack, onboarding process. Everything about the operations side and the crew career path.
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All destinations at a glance — non-stop on the active schedule, grouped by continent.
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