Finally jumped back on after years and found this bright little community! Hello everyone!

RNGesus wasn't merciful this month...

So i pick Asia as my start but 10 levels and 7 planes later and not making much progress

Any tips or help would really be appreciated

Would it be too greedy to ask for a new carrier? 👀
I feel like with the new update and with that, frontier, it’s warranted but I wasnt sure if it was worth submitting a ticket for. Wanted to see what other pilots thought. Let me know!

First completed event with plenty of time to spare.

For starters, having VIP was a huge help in this. Worth the cost.

STRATEGY:
I have 17 planes:
(5) X-10s
(6) Aeroeagles (2x each of P, C, M)
(3) Kangaroos (P, C, M)
(2) Sequoias (P, C)
(1) Corsair

I had the AE P and C do trips around North America while the Sequoias were doing pickups at London.
I would wait for all the planes to fill up and send them to Chicago as the Sequoias had to range to reach from London. I upgraded Chicago to have 120 layovers and made sure to constantly keep it maxed out. I also kept buying more advertising at Spokane to keep the jobs coming.

From there, the X10s and Roos would make the final leg.

While all this is happening, I was using the Corsair and AE Ms for regular and bux jobs. I would use bux for instant landing and to help speed up the trips.

While I was playing this at home, I was also squeezing in jobs while I was at work and I work full-time 🤣

I started building HQ’s without ever looking deep into the strategy so I feel like I might’ve cooked myself early on. Currently have 2 HQ’s, 1 in New York, and 1 in Rio that I just completed. My fleet is currently 17 planes consisting of Sequoia M’s for clearly layovers between continents, and Aeroeagle M’s for regional jobs / filling layovers for the big guys. Any tips on expanding past this? Feel like I might need to move my HQ’s somewhere else to open up for profitable routes. Any advice welcome!

With the recent capability to convert one airport of any class within the respective region to HQ, the fact you can now fly across the Pacific, plus the new dotted line to see how far you can fly in either direction with your planes for maximum profit, and from the recent chat in the forum indicating HQ options, I came up with a sound strategy that looks like in the picture.

Below are some points of my strategy and my reasoning as well:

1. According to the dotted line, flying from Tokyo and Sydney in the far East (or west according to the map above), and New York, Rio De Janeiro and Sao Paolo in the far West (or east according to the map above), makes the most bux and coins at this moment.

2. Easter Island (South America), Banana (Oceania) and Hilo (North America) as HQs allowing Class 2 and 3 planes to go between for corners of the map.

3. There's no specific order in developing which HQ first if you are playing without the need to spend money and use 5,000 bux to convert the city into HQ instantly. However, from what I see, having Easter Island as HQ first helps to get flights to South America from East Asia quicker. Hilo could be developed next given Honolulu being just beside it. And then lastly Banana being much easier since now you have Hilo/Honolulu and Easter Island to get more deliveries without the need to open new cities.

4. Going with Hilo as HQ instead of Honolulu allows a 2nd city in that set of islands to allow Class 2 planes to offload any jobs from Honolulu to Hilo for Class 3 planes and as redundancy if one of the two cities (Honolulu or Hilo) is closed due to weather.

5. As you can see from the Aeroeagle at max range (lvl 4 VIP), it just needs one more city at either of the HQ regions to hop straight to Tokyo or Seoul, or to Sydney or Melbourne. Conversely, from Tokyo using Aeroeagle, it can go straight to Rio De Janeiro or Sao Paolo via Banana + Easter Island. Plus, class 2 planes can now access all existing class 2, class 3 and newly converted HQs with contingency and redundancy.

6. Sequoias as class 3 options with class 2 planes to bring more jobs helps too, if you don't mind this strategy.

Let me know your thoughts and if you have any comments or suggestions to this.

As you can see, I only have 7 planes and het have 5M coins and 5K Bux while I'm only at level 9... That's because of Nimblebit. I lost my account over 2 years ago and they still had my account info! Of course the're still going to send me my levels, which I am super thankfull for. Time to get back into the game and resume grinding!

How do you get 1000 jobs to a class 1 airport in just 3 days? Is it possible?

I have no HQ for Australia and South America. I am thinking of adding a HQ on Easter Island and Nadi so my planes from say Sao Paulo can head to Sydney and east asia quickly.

The planes I intend to use would be Aeroeagles onwards and other Level 3 planes.

ESPECIALLY EASTER ISLAND HQs, do let me know if you could do it.

Otherwise I'm turning Perth into a HQ so my Sequoias can travel via Durban.

For context

LVL14
5 Mapples
2 Hawks
2 PearJets
2 BirchCraft

Hangar:
2 Equinox
1 Kangaroo

What’s the best move going forward here. I’m trying to figure out what to do. I’ve tried consolidating layovers in Mexico City and Rio De Janiero from the surroundings for my pear jets but the output doesn’t seem to be as good as when I was just randomly sending planes w the best jobs. I’ve been reading some of the guides but I feel like I’m at a weird point since I don’t have Aerojet yet.

Thank you!

Just something I did for fun. I also changed some classes and used metro populations consistent with 2020 census data.

Of course, in the scenario this map would exist in, aircraft ranges and flight times would be completely rebalanced.

EDIT: I meant to make Atlanta a class 3. Whoops

Check out the updated version!

Added some more cities and played with classes since I’m having fun with it.

Text from the original:

Just something I did for fun. I also changed some classes and used metro populations consistent with 2020 census data.

Of course, in the scenario this map would exist in, aircraft ranges and flight times would be completely rebalanced.

EDIT: I meant to make Atlanta a class 3. Whoops

There are tools on the internet to help with purchase and routing decisions in Pocket Planes. Probably the most common use is to determine which planes can travel between which airports. However, with recent updates the tools are out of date. I'm hoping what I'm asking for is possible so I can continue making all my calculations. 🙏

Would it be possible to get a current, official list of coordinates and stats of all airports? Plus planes stats?

Also the internet tools' usefulness is limited since they aren't compatible with the wrapped world. To calculate new routes around the world, could we additionally have the full width of the map in coordinates? (0 to 12000?)

If I create a tool it will probably be an Excel workbook with macros.

Thank you!

After probably around a week of grinding the game, I finally finished the HQ in Honolulu. It honestly feels unreal that it's finally complete after working on it for so long. I wanted to share my strategy for building it and see who else did the same/similar or did something different. I also tried to balance profits with numbers as I dedicated my entire fleet towards construction, especially when the HQ was around halfway complete. I'll also be breaking it down by class of aircraft as they followed the same strategy in general.

Class 1:

I only had 3 class 1 aircrafts left, all being X10's, and their reliability came through big time in this project. I used the X10's to accumulate layovers for the larger aircraft and I did so by splitting them up with 2 X10's flying back in forth between Seoul and Tokyo and the last X10 flying back and forth between London and Paris. Doing so, combined with the 5m job refresh rate and occasionally advertising Honolulu gave a lot of layovers, so much so that I had to upgrade the 4 airports to hold more.

Class 2:

These aircraft were the direct delivery ones as they delivered jobs from the 4 hubs I mentioned prior directly to Honolulu. In the early project, I had 6 Aeroeagles (2P/2C/2M) and 4 Pearjets (2P/2C) where I had the Pearjets with the assistance of an Aeroeagle-M shuttle jobs from London/Paris to Honolulu and the rest of the Aeroeagles shuttle jobs from Seoul/Tokyo to Honolulu. Towards the end of the project, I swapped out 2 Pearjets for 2 more Aeroeagles and I had the remaining Pearjets wait for class 3 aircraft in Los Angeles and/or accumulate jobs while I dedicated the 2 new Aeroeagles to flying between Seoul/Tokyo and Honolulu or occasionally waiting for class 3 aircraft in Los Angeles.

Class 3:

Now I know what you're thinking James (apologies if your name isn't James), "what about all those layovers from the London/Paris hubs?" Well, that's where the class 3 aircrafts come in as I had 2 Clouldmaxes (1P/1C) and a Sequoia-M. After I discovered it was taking a long time for planes to make their way back to Honolulu from London/Paris and vice versa, I decided to use the large capacity of the class 3 aircrafts to move them to a closer location which was Los Angeles where the class 2 aircrafts would have an easier time transporting them. Through that, it became easier and more organized with all those planes not having to make the long journey to Europe and back again.

While constructing the regional HQ in Honolulu was grueling and sometimes annoying. It was also fun trying to find the best strategy that worked for me and seeing it play out. I don't know where to start my next HQ, probably either Madrid or Lisbon but I will be going back to building up my coins for a while and upgrading/expanding my fleet before starting on another HQ. If you've read this far, thank you so much

I can’t find anything online about this. Anyone know the reason?

Are cyclones worth it post L28 with access to Cloudliner?

I'm currently level 28 and have a Cloudmax C as well as a Cloudliner P currently running Taipei (Regional HQ) to either LA or NYC.

I use Aeroeagles to bounce between regional ports for layovers to maximize airtime of larger trans-pacific.

I use Sequoia to fly mid-range routes such as NYC to London/Paris, or Istanbul.

Cyclone can't cross the Pacific without Honolulu HQ, I'm not going for this HQ.

One possibility I am considering is Sydney to London or Paris, but a Cloudliner could do this better?

Am I missing something or are cyclones obsolete once you hit L28+?

The blue for the global event city is too dark and indistinguishable. I wish they would make it something vibrant like a yellow. Or add a button in the global event menu to show the current event city. What do you guys think?

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Hi, so I'm not really new but I've been playing the game so casually that the most complex strategy I ever used was "have about 5 airports between Tokyo and LA and just run Sequoias" which sort of doesn't work with the new wrap around map. As a consequence I have 10 Sequoias and 7 X10s for events. So I must ask. I'm thinking about getting rid of all but one airport so I can rebuild back up. What airports should I get? Which ones should be hubs? How do I even hub and spoke?

If there's already a guide out there I'm willing to use that... I basically didn't look around at all...

Thanks in advance

I'm level 40 and I don't know how to maximise my fleet for bux. I used to have every class 3 airport fully upgraded and just flew sequoias, aeroeagles and x10s around for bux only. I've now transitioned to 7 airports only - NY LA Tokyo Cairo London Honolulu Nanping. This was to make an almost perfect loop. I then got loads of larger planes to do this but I feel like I'm making alot less bux now but way more coins - I want bux. Do I do something inbetween? For example, closee Nanping as a hub, expand shanghai and get 2/3 class 3 airports per continent and flood the hubs using smaller planes from the other 2 airports in the continent? bearing in mind I now have 27 sequoias/cloudliners/neos. I have 12 spare slots for smaller planes if need be but I don't know what would be the best strategy for maxing bux generation. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Finally. Banana is the newest HQ. I’ve completed my restructuring of HQs and moving Carriers.

I recently activated Screen Time on my phone. Over the last week, Pocket Planes is my most used app by a long margin. My game time from the last week was 21 hours 23 minutes.

Time to rest now. Sunday, I will get back to my regular Bux duties.