A Long Flight
A Long Flight Sandbox Update: Start Time, Countdown, What’s Next
A Long Flight, the desert survival and aviation experience from VSC Games, has a new update on the way. The Sandbox update opens Saturday, October 24, 2026, and it steers the game away from scavenging and toward free-form creation — a mode built around raising your own structures, assembling custom aircraft, and triggering events on demand.
The game has climbed fast for a title its developer still calls a work in progress. It has drawn about 1,100,000 visits and holds about 6,100 favorites, with about about 10,000 players in the world at the time of writing. That is a healthy concurrent crowd for an experience still in active development.
We update this page as new events are announced. As of October 23, the Sandbox update is the only event on A Long Flight’s calendar; its exact start and end times are in the schedule below.
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Sandbox [UPDATE]!
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Oct 24, 2:00 PM – Oct 31, 3:00 PM ET
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Current and upcoming events
Sandbox update
The Sandbox update is a new-content release that opens up a creative mode. According to the developer’s notes, it lets players build and customize their own structures, design custom planes and other flying machines, and spawn events, aircraft, enemies, engines and building parts whenever they want. In short, it hands over the tools the survival mode normally doles out slowly, so you can build and experiment without the usual grind for fuel and parts.
It runs as a week-long window, opening Saturday, October 24, 2026 at 2:00 PM ET (11:00 AM PT, 1:00 PM CT, 7:00 PM BST) and closing Saturday, October 31, 2026 at 3:00 PM ET. Interest is already high: more than about 20,000 players have marked the update as going, a strong turnout for a game this size and its first scheduled event so far.
Frequently asked questions
When does the Sandbox update go live in A Long Flight?
It opens Saturday, October 24, 2026 at 2:00 PM ET (11:00 AM PT, 7:00 PM BST) and runs through Saturday, October 31, 2026 at 3:00 PM ET — a full week.
What time do A Long Flight events start?
The Sandbox update begins at 2:00 PM ET, which is 11:00 AM PT, 1:00 PM CT, and 7:00 PM BST. It is the only event on the calendar so far, so there is no established start-time pattern yet.
How many players does A Long Flight have right now?
About about 10,000 players are in the game as of October 23, and it has passed about 1,100,000 total visits since launch.
What is the Sandbox update in A Long Flight?
It is a creative mode that lets you build custom structures and aircraft and spawn events, enemies, engines and parts on command, rather than searching the desert for them the way the standard survival mode requires.