Leaderboards

Rankings are a shop window, not a mechanic of their own. The section takes what your flights, scores and purchases have already produced and lines airlines and pilots up for the period you pick. It has no formula of its own: to climb you have to fly, not to study the table.

Two tables, four periods

There are two tables: airlines and pilots. Each has its own set of metrics, and the metric you pick is what the list is sorted by. The period switch at the top applies to both tables; the page opens on "30 days".

Airline metrics

Airlines are ranked on live flights — the reports their pilots filed and had accepted within the period. Autofleet flights do not count towards the ranking: they are shown separately as a "+N% NPC fleet" note, so you can see how much the airline flew itself. Profit and fleet value are visible only once you are signed in: guests get no money figures.

Pilot metrics

A pilot is measured by their own accepted reports over the same period. The pilot table is for signed-in users only: names are visible to members of the platform, not to the whole internet. The rank next to the name comes from career-long XP, while the XP column counts the chosen period alone — so a captain may well sit below a cadet who flew more this month.

Where the numbers come from

The table awards nothing and takes nothing away. Every column is the outcome of another mechanic, and that is where to look when a number surprises you:

• "Score" is the average mark of your flights. What it is made of and what pulls it down is in "Why your score drops".
• "XP" is the same experience that unlocks ranks. The distance multipliers and everything else are in "The pilot: XP, ranks, ratings".
• The pilot quality rating — the one shown on the career card — takes no part in the tables at all: it is a separate figure, described in that same pilot chapter.
• An airline's passengers, cargo, profit and hours come from its flights, while demand, fares and airport reputation come from "The airline".

Why your position does not move at once

The table is not rebuilt on every request: a ready answer is kept for five minutes. So a report that has just been accepted reaches the ranking with a short delay — that is normal, and reloading the page over and over will not help. The World pulse feed is livelier: it is rebuilt once a minute.

Who is not in the table

• AirVirtua, the platform's house airline, is unranked: it is subsidised and flies around the clock, so it would sit first forever. Its volume is shown under the table marked "unranked", as a benchmark, and only when its autofleet actually flew.
• Pilots who switched visibility in rankings off in their privacy settings appear neither in the table, nor in the feed, nor on the seasonal podium — see "Awards, seasons and goals".
• A guest who is not signed in sees no pilot ranking at all, and airline money figures — profit and fleet value — are hidden. Passengers, cargo, hours and aircraft counts are public.
• Ferry flights and free flights count nowhere: they file no flight report. A rejected report does not count either — only accepted ones do.

What else is on the page

• World pulse is a feed of the latest events: accepted flights, autofleet flights, fresh pilot and airline awards, new airlines.
• The weekly spotlight — airline of the week and pilot of the week — is the top row of the weekly table: passengers for airlines, hours for pilots.
• The benchmark under the table is the house airline's volume for the same period, marked "flown by robots". It is there to show the scale of the world, not to be raced.
• Your own row is marked YOU. And the dashboard carries a "Rankings · this week" tile: your position among pilots by hours and your airline's by passengers.