Pocket Planes - Tips and Tricks Thread

[Kat92]

Hi
Can someone please tell me how to upgrade a plane please.ive bought Easter island but found that none of my planes have the range to fly there.
Thanks

[Avocado]

I'd like to know which has higher priority: buying better Airplanes, upgrades, or new airports?

[akpak]

I posted an FAQ elsewhere in this forum, it should help some newbies.

http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=141231

[mmxool]

I am on level 11 have 7 cities and 10 planes. Here are some tips I found while I was playing:

- Start on the east coast of North America. The cities are toronto, detroit, montreal etc. Since they are so close together you can get coins and bux early on in the game. I made a mistake of starting in Australia and there is nearly not enough jobs and the distance between cities is too great.

- Expand to a red city (10 million) to get heaps of jobs like from north american can expand to dallas and then mexico city. The jobs will give more coins.

- Use layovers to your advantage. I had planes ferry passengers/cargo to a central hub like toronto. Then when you do jobs out of toronto you can easily get 25% bonus by filling your plane. Use this method to do jobs between toronto and dallas for example.

- Do not buy planes, buy parts instead.

- Always take a bux job they are worth 500 coins each.

- Stick with Kangaroo planes early game avoid Birchcraft (and mohawks to a lesser extent) they cost more to run.

- Try and get 25% bonus on each trip.

[Meegley]

Hi All, I have read many threads to work out how to maximise profit and bux, but am not doing very well so any suggestions anyone has would be greatly appreciated...
I have NY, Atlanta, Dallas, Miami, San Fran, Mexico City, Lima, Recife, Lagos, Riyadh, Ahmedabad, Osaka, Hong Kong, Singapore and Jakarta. Have just closed San Jose as I have done 160+ jobs there and Melbourne. My fleet is 5 Pearjets, 5 Birchcraft and A kangaroo which was doing hops into San Jose.. I have 42 k and 11 bux... Should I sacrifice profit to fly a multi stop route to get bux ie Mexico City to Jakarta with a 7 bux time machine which gives neg profit each leg, (picking up new fares in each when possible) or only fly with a full plane to one destination and get the 25% bonus ( where bux are just a happy coincidence) .. My average daily rev is 145k...
TIA from all the experts I have been reading about... If I appear to have spent lots it is thanks to after one of the last events, getting paid for it about seven times!

[Skillbo]

How do find out my game centre Id so I can add friends?

[waltersguy]

Hey guys,

I would like some advice on aircraft upgrading. Currently I am a level 16 airline. I currently own 11 planes in my fleet, going for my 12th.

I am currently in control of the North American and South American region, with all blue and red airports minus LA, Monterrey, Recife, Salvador, Rio, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, and Santiago.

I am upgrading my fleet and hangaring outdated aircraft. I am stuck at a particular point in choosing which aircraft to go with at this point: Kangaroo or Birchcraft? I heard that Kangaroo is good to go with and cheaper to buy in the way of parts, and Birchcraft should be avoided due to being expensive to operate, but Birchcraft will reach a good chunk of South American Cities (Lima to Recife for example) that the Kangaroo will not.

Any advice at which of these two aircraft would be more advantageous to go with at this point in time? Thanks.

[Severitas]

First I would like to say hi to everyone, I am actually an android user, but it appears that we android users can join the same flight crews as the iphone users.

I am currently level 18.

I am enjoying participating in the events, although since we are pretty much guaranteed to win at this point, the competition for me is more about trying to place highly in within our own flight crew. (I do hope another flight crew might rise up and at least make it a challenge for us.)

All that being said I do have some thoughts I'd like to bring to the table. As the largest flight crew I would hope we have the largest knowledge base

1. Is it worth it to upgrade airports?
2. What is a good number of airports to have?

In my opinion, while having the additional lay over slots can be nice, so far I am not seeing that big of a jump in the number of jobs available, the only airports I have upgraded so far are 2 class 3 airports. Especially when considering the high cost of upgrading. Meanwhile that cash could be going towards more airports (see below) or airplane slots.

As to more airports, it seems to me, that the more airports I have, it just makes it harder for me to fill up my planes with pass/cargo going to the same place.

What are your thoughts on the best way to go? Large number of airports? Large number of planes? Upgraded airports?

Also if this stuff has been covered somewhere else please let me know I havent seen it.

Lastly, I have 2 of the airship bodies from a couple events ago, did anyone get an extra control or engine they would want to trade?