Quick Start Guide
Navigating the Screen
Terminology
Navigating the Screen
- At the top of the screen you will find your level and experience, total fuel, available passengers, coin balance, airport cash balance, city capacity, and energy balance.
- On the left side of the screen you will find your current missions.
- On the right side of the screen you will find visiting planes, flight times, and bonuses.
- At the bottom of the screen you will find your store, flights, warehouse, collections, friends and news, and tools.
Terminology
- Coins: Coins are the currency in Airport City. You will need coins to purchase expansions for your airport, build homes and businesses, and purchase new planes. You earn coins by sending out flights and from your businesses.
- Airport Cash: Airport cash is the premium currency in Airport City. Airport cash can be used to skip missions, purchase bonuses, unlock items early, and purchase premium items. Airport cash can be purchased using real money. You can also earn one airport cash each time you level up.
- Experience: Experience is earned by completing missions. Once you’ve earned enough experience you will level up. Leveling up will unlock new items, missions, planes, and locations to fly to.
- Fuel: Fuel is necessary for your planes to fly. When you run out of fuel you will be unable to send out any flights. You can either wait for your fuel reserves to replenish or you can use a fuel bonus.
- Passengers: Your planes will not fly without passengers. Passengers are collected from houses in your city. Each type of house will earn you a certain amount of passengers over a certain amount of time. Once you are out of available passengers you will need to wait to collect more, or use a passenger bonus item.
- Energy: Energy is needed to power the buildings in your city. You will need to build power plants in order to increase the size of your city.
- City Capacity: Your city capacity determines how many buildings you can build. Each building you place in your city will take up a certain amount of your capacity. You will need to expand your city to increase your capacity.
- Missions: You will be given numerous missions to accomplish while playing Airport City. Missions earn you experience, coins, and bonus items. Completing missions is vital to earning enough experience to level up.
- Store: The store is where you will find everything you need to purchase to be successful in Airport City. To access your store, tap on the store button located at the bottom of your screen. In the store you will find
- Residential Buildings: Residential buildings provide you with passengers for your planes.
- Airport Buildings: Airport buildings will allow you to run your airport. Here you will find runways, hangars, and control towers, among other buildings.
- Planes: This is where you can purchase and sell planes. Different planes allow you to fly to different locations. You will need hangars for your planes. If you do not have the available space for a new plane you will need to either sell one of your current planes or wait until you can build additional hangars.
- Commerce: Commerce buildings allow you to earn coins over time.
- Industries: Under industries you will find power plants. As your city and airport grow, you will need to build new and better power plants to meet the power needs of your city.
- Decorations: Decorations allow you to make your city unique. Currently, decorations are purely aesthetic.
- Bonuses: Bonus items provide unique bonuses for a certain amount of time. For example, using the business class bonus will triple the income you receive from flights for six hours. Bonuses can be purchased by using airport cash, or occasionally earned by completing missions.
- Expansions: Here you can purchase expansions for your city and airport, giving yourself more space to build on.
- Resources: Resources are similar to bonuses but provide you with additional passengers, fuel and the like. They can be earned by completing missions, or purchased using airport cash.
- Flights: You will be sending your planes on flights. Flights earn you coins but cost you fuel and passengers. Each flight will earn you a certain amount of coins and take a specific amount of time. You will need to weigh these factors to determine the right flight destinations for your style of play.
- Flight Times: Your flight times show you how long each deployed flight have left. You can use extra fuel to speed up flights.
- Visiting Flights: Visiting flights can bring in extra coins. You need to have enough fuel for these flights, and they take longer to fuel and load then your own flights
- Warehouse: Your warehouse is where you will find your inventory. You can find your bonuses and resources here as well as sell any planes you no longer need.
- Collections: When collecting coins from your flights and commerce buildings you will sometimes run across collection items. Once you’ve completed a collection you can trade it in for bonus coins, experience, and/or bonuses and resources.
- Daily Bonus: Each day that you log into Airport City you will earn a bonus. If you log in multiple days in a row that bonus will grow