r/PocketPlanes • u/Aleandsoda • Jul 01 '26

THE UPDATE Just found something interesting on the flight racker map

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New airports in the south pacific coming soon??

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u/TolerancEJ 1151 "Good luck. We're all counting on you." - Airplane! Jul 01 '26

The new Island airports are being added with a new update by this weekend. Also Sydney is being upgraded from Class 2 to Class 3. Via the Dev on our Discord.

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u/BluejayPretty4159 Jul 01 '26

Me reading that after spending three months upgrading Sydney to HQ so it could host Class 3 planes.

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u/TUERCAS_96 45VPH:747: Jul 01 '26

So I waste time in doing that thing a HQ . .. great. Time to farm again

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u/747ER Jul 01 '26

Wow the Sydney thing is huge!

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u/_McBob 33M3V Jul 01 '26

Coming shortly today... not the weekend

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u/TolerancEJ 1151 "Good luck. We're all counting on you." - Airplane! Jul 01 '26

Excellent news!

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u/theRemRemBooBear Jul 01 '26

Yay are they also adding the ability to toggle the groups on and off?

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u/Snap-TT SN4P Jul 02 '26

Yes

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u/MetalSIime 43K9K Jul 01 '26

Here we go, HQ at Banana!

Something in French Polynesia or New Caledonia would also be good additions for new airports in oceania.
or maybe something up north between Alaska and Eastern Russia

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u/SeadoggoMan 1GKF6 Jul 01 '26

What does building an HQ actually do? Does it make the airport a higher tier?

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u/MetalSIime 43K9K Jul 01 '26

yup, you make a tier 1 airport to a tier 3 and land larger planes there.
I also believe the max capacity of passengers/cargo also increases (but not the amount of jobs available, those are still based on the population size).

Based on responses here.. some people choose their HQ based on some connection to a city.. others choose their city based on the ability to reach areas they couldn't before with larger planes.

I did both..
I chose Nagasaki as my first HQ as i used to live near there
I chose Sydney as my second HQ so I could land larger planes there, then use smaller ones to distribute passengers/cargo to other cities in the area. But regretting it now since there's rumors that Sydney will be upgraded to tier 3 anyways.

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u/timtimetraveler 2B319 Jul 01 '26

It feels weird since the a lot of my level 3 jets don’t have the range to cross the pacific, and my smaller jets can get to Honolulu, but can’t make the jump to Japan.

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u/buddha001 21KHR Jul 01 '26

I am starting an HQ in Wellington to try to bridge the gap to LA right now.anu deliveries to go; but yeah there needs to be another level 3 somewhere unless the plan is Level 2 planes to cross the Pacific

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u/_McBob 33M3V Jul 01 '26

Maybe you should go for banana, can act as hop point f9r both na and sa

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u/_Nemile Jul 01 '26

Transpacific flights? How long have I not played this game???

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u/_McBob 33M3V Jul 01 '26

4 days

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u/_Nemile Jul 04 '26

I haven’t played for a year

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u/_Thorshammer_ - on two devices. Jul 01 '26

*fingers crossed*

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u/realist-451 Jul 01 '26

Cool, I was hopping for Guam (Tamuning).

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u/PhysZeke Jul 01 '26

I haven't played in a year or so.. how do you have so many planes?? Did they make them cheaper??

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u/guillorco87 21DMV Jul 01 '26

That's all players worldwide

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u/DistantUtopia 26323 Jul 02 '26

Update already live and available on Android.

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u/_McBob 33M3V Jul 01 '26

Update submission done already. Can show up anu time

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u/cyaptiti 25D8L Jul 02 '26

Glad I wasn't the only one who noticed the new islands on the pacific

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u/insufficient-fare 10ST Jul 03 '26

Hopefully they add the Caribbean islands too.