Chapter 10 of 16
Tours
Ready-made chains of flights with a reward at the end
A tour is a pre-built chain of legs — a loop around the Russian Far East, say, or a run along the Volga. It doesn't replace normal flights but sits on top of them: the flights still earn their usual money and XP, and the tour adds a goal and a reward at the end of the road.
How it works
- 1Enrol in a tourThe tour page lists every leg: departure, arrival, and whether a particular aircraft type is required. You can be enrolled in several tours at once — they run in parallel.
- 2Take the flight for the next legThe next leg has a «Take the flight» button: pick an aircraft and it is positioned to the departure airport for free, then returns to its previous stand once the report is in. Legs are credited strictly in sequence: until the first one is done, the second won't count even if you have already flown it.
- 3A flight report closes the legThe counter moves on its own as soon as a report is accepted for a flight with the same departure and arrival airports. If the leg calls for a particular type, the flight has to be flown on it.
- 4See it throughThe reward is paid for the tour as a whole: money to your personal account, XP, and the tour badge on your profile. Individual legs pay nothing. Each tour shows its finishers; the tour page lists completion dates and profile links, earliest first. Sign in to view the list. Leaderboard privacy preferences are respected.
You do not have to find an aircraft for a tour: the platform positions one to the leg's departure airport for free and returns it to its previous stand the moment the report is accepted. That is why a long-haul tour no longer starts with ferrying an aircraft across an ocean. One leg at a time, though — until that flight is flown or cancelled, you cannot tie up a second aircraft. If the leg names a type, the aircraft list narrows to it: a flight on another type will happen, but it will not close the leg.
Only regular airline flights count: a free flight passes the tour by, because it files no flight report. You can abandon a tour at any time, but the progress resets — re-enrolling puts you back on leg one.
The point of tours is simple: they give you a reason to fly somewhere you would never have picked yourself, and they knock out the new-airport and new-type awards along the way.