Bumpy Flight Progression: Coins, Game Passes and Worth-It Calls

The two currencies that matter

Progression runs on XP and coins: XP gates levels, coins buy what levels unlock. Both flow from the same source — completed flights — and both double under their respective game passes. There is no third currency in anything observed so far.

Coins are therefore an aircraft budget, and every crash is money burned. The economy rewards the same habit the XP system does: land, land, land.

The three game passes

The store listing carries exactly three passes, and each does one job:

Which pass changes flights

Only Fast Boarding touches a mechanic — the passenger follow system — and only during the boarding phase. 2x XP and 2x Coins multiply outcomes without touching how anything plays.

So the worth-it call is honest: none of the three is pay-to-win, all three are pay-to-faster. A crew that lands flights reliably needs none of them; a solo player grinding the hangar will feel all of them.

What coins should buy first

The community consensus path is aircraft before cosmetics: airframes are the progression gate, liveries are not. Nothing observed so far shows a cosmetic affecting flight, so cosmetic spending is taste, not strategy.

When a new hangar row opens, check whether its aircraft changes the TASKS counters — the 0/4 vs 0/6 bag counts suggest bigger planes carry bigger workloads. A bigger plane with more bags is not automatically faster per hour; test before committing your coin budget.

Robux or patience

The beta's economy is young — payouts tune with updates, and the developers iterate weekly. Anything a pass saves you today shrinks as your skill compounds; the same 199 Robux buys permanent speed for a daily crew and sits idle for a weekly one.

Our calculator page turns your actual play pattern into a per-pass recommendation if you want the math instead of the vibes.

Spending traps to avoid

Two traps cover most regrets: buying cosmetics before the hangar is full, and buying 2x passes for a play pattern that flies once a week. Both are one-update-from-stale purchases in a beta this young.

The reverse also holds: if a future update adds a fourth pass or changes prices, this page records it with the date — the store listing is the source of truth whenever it and this table disagree.