Event

The in-game event system creates a temporary change depending on the event that is active. There is currently one event in the game so far.

## Olympics

The Olympics are an international sporting event that occurs every 4 years, where athletes from countries all around the globe compete for medals in a variety of sports. In-game, the Olympics happens once every 4 years, although preparations (for airlines) starts way before the planned week.

### Year 1

Once the last week of the Olympics finishes, the voting for the next Olympic begins. A selection of six towns/cities that are located above the -45 or 45 latitude line from different countries will be voted using a ranked-choice system (where the first place you click will be your most preferred city, second one you click will be the next preferred city, and so on and so forth). Airports that are open to serve the Olympics must be within a 100km radius.

In order to vote, your reputation must be 40 or above. Otherwise, you will get a message saying you ill be unable to vote.

### Years 2 and 3

The winner from the vote from the previous year is announced, as well as which city was eliminated when. If a city was eliminated, it's votes go to the next-highest city that is still in the running (per person). If you voted (**regardless of which city you picked**), you get an option to claim a reward of either $10,000,000 or +10 loyalty in the host city's (and surrounding) airports. See Said airports within the city range get an Olympic Airport Charm which boosts demand. This will remain until the conclusion of the Olympics.

These years are for preparation and planning. In this time, you can set up routes to the host city. However, you will not get any score from passengers transported at this time.

### Year 4

This year you will be able to gain score. Score is based on the amount of passengers transported. If you reach your target score, you can claim a reward of $20,000,000 (or score, whichever one is higher), or a loyalty boost. Not every airline has the same target score.

Score is about 1 point per passenger directly transported, 1/2 point if you transport a passenger for one part of a leg (transfers), 1/3 for three transfers, etc. Just because you have a certain amount of passengers to the target city, you will not always get the same amount points in return. In addition, note that each pax transported = 1 point, and route distance plays no role in determining the score, just the number of pax and the numer of segments they travelled on.

If you surpass the score goal, you get the option of choosing one of the four rewards:

* Cash $20,000,000 or $500\*score (whichever one is higher)
* Loyalty: +25 loyalty boost on airports in the 100km range of the host city for 4 years
* Reputation: +10 reputation for a limited time
* Delegates: Base of +3 delegates for 100% completion, and an additional delegate for each additional 100% of goal completed up to 400% for a maximum of 6 delegates (for 208 weeks, one full Olympics cycle)

Choose wisely!

## Christmas

Around Christmas (usually beginning the first Saturday of December, until the first or second week of January), there is a minigame that involves guessing where Santa is in the world, by clicking on airports. There is an option to enable snowflakes raining down across your screen as well!

### Mechanics

The airports that can be a possible hiding spot have a scale of at least 6 and are in the top 300 airports in the world. You are allowed 10 tries to guess and you will receive hints.

Santa Event: Distance Comments
 50-100 km away
 101-250 km away
 251-500 km away
 501-1,000 km away
 1,001-2,000 km away
 2,001-5,000 km away
 5,001-10,000 km away
 10,000 km or more away

### Rewards

You are able to choose one of the following:

* Cash reward of $20,000,000 (Santa Claus is feeling generous! He is giving you $20,000,000 cash!)
* Service quality boost of 5 for 8 weeks (Santa Claus offers you his pro tips on making your flights magical! Overall Airline Service Quality bonus +5)
* 3 loyalty in your HQ for 8 weeks (Santa Claus agrees to travel to your HQ and ho-ho-ho for 8 weeks in [HQ airport] Loyalty bonus 3 in your HQ airport!)
* 10 loyalty for 8 weeks in the airport you found Santa in (Santa Claus is going to print your airline logo on all the gifts shipping for [Airport you found Santa in]! Loyalty bonus 10 in [Airport you found Santa] for 8 weeks!)
* 5 reputation for 8 weeks (Santa Claus will make an appearance on your TV commercial! Boosting your airline reputation by 5!)
* 3 delegates for 1 year/52 weeks (Santa Claus dispatches his elves to help you! 3 extra delegates for 52 weeks!)

Once you guess, correctly or not, you must wait until the mini-game resets. This reset is controlled by the dev, and usually is done once a week.

### Detailed Instructions of Guessing

1. Click on the view airport page, as in where you would build a base or check the loyalist pie chart of an airport.
2. There should be an embedded map inside, that has city names if you click on the "city icons".
3. Click on the Santa Hat Button
	1. Make sure you are in a scale 6+ airport, as Santa could only show up there.
4. Click Guess Here!

### Tool to Help

Obviously, it's much more fun manually searching through the research tab and thinking of cities you know, then discovering just how far they are apart. Fly or Die has found a nice tool/strategy that works if you're desperate for the money or delegates or something. Join the discord server and click on the link here to check out detailed instructions from FoD.

## Notes

1. ↑ In V1, you could only receive the award if you voted for the city that would host the Olympics as your highest precedence. This meant people would vote for which ever city was the most popular, and not towards personal preference. This has been changed since.
2. ↑ These are the reason why you can get decimals attached to your score. Also using this it is theoretically possible to get the Olympic reward without making a route to the host city (although it would be pretty hard to do so).
3. ↑ There's eight different images in this "snowflake" animation, which includes candy canes and santa hats.
4. ↑ The first person known to have found Santa on their first try is Pancho Air. Proof here.

The second person is InterSky Airways, Proof here.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Not permanent, will return to normal levels.
6. ↑ In V1 this was a lot (and in some cases now, it still is).