I assure you very very few players spends hundreds on this game, that’s not responsible and is on you, not the devs. Also, I’ve not seen this myself nor heard of it being an issue anywhere else, so I believe it is a bug or you never had the pass to begin with.
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Iad premium pass has always been 110 so that isn’t really the problem
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You don’t start out spending any money, but over time you realize how much time is taken up trying to earn xp points and advancing to the next level. Purchasing golden airplanes to get the premium pass helps double your efforts when you move up in levels, and allows you to set up airport resources faster which helps advance in xp points quicker.
100 golden airplanes is the most popular option purchased for $22.99. Obviously other players use this option too. If you do this only a handful of times in a year over 3 year years it adds up.
Whether you think I’m irresponsible is irrelevant. I’ve already purchased and used gold airplanes to unlock these features. They shouldn’t lock up a feature I’ve already unlocked, and expect me to pay for it again. And with an even higher cost.
If others are also experiencing this issue we should be allowed to discuss, and express the ethics of this regardless of how great we think the game is out how much we appreciate what’s being done to the game. Unless it’s a glitch or something that can be remedied, we should be able to bring this up.
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That’s impressive! Thank you for delivering such a wonderful game.
With all these features combined, I see the potential for it to become an iconic ATC game.
It aint greedy…
For a game of this quality to be free to play with no ads! The devs are anything BUT gready.
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May I propose a show of hands by (only) those people who has experienced this “relocking” also and on which airports.
This give an indication of the (potential) problem.
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You can make 885 (520+365) Gp in one year assuming you are able to get the daily/weekly conversions, a pretty easy task of you have player contracts. That’s enough to buy every premium pass which is pretty generous. Considering you can make this much without paying in a extremely high quality game with no intrusive ads they are not being greedy. As for the pass in IAD I’m pretty sure it’s a bug, I think I remember someone else talking about it before. Email it to the Devs and they’ll likely restore your purchase
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I apologize to everyone. Merry Christmas. I now see in hindsight I should have simply asked if others experienced the premium pass being locked after the newest updates.
As I said I also love this game, and love where the devs are taking it.
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While it’s a good start, I wouldn’t say anything else is bad news. They could add boarding people with disabilities or locomotion dificulties, like boarding people in wheelchairs, elders, unattended childen… they would board first, just like in real life. Not only cool but also inclusive and educative.
They could add special cargos and passengers, like a band boarding the airplane with their fragile equipment, causing some ‘not that bad’ security issues due to fans… have some fragile, special cargo being boarded, like skis, surfboard, pets…
Maybe have birds at the runway, so you’d have to fire some fireworks before landing/takeoffs or just close the runway for a while, causing delays…
Small check could have you sending the airplane into a hangar to complete…
Runway could have degradation and require maintenance… while I understand a flat tire could be bad for the manufacturer/airliner, maybe it could instead just slow down taxiing/landing until fixed. To fix, you’d then have to close that runway and manually redirect all traffic to a different one.
A fog could close a nearby airport, and you’d be asked to receive some airplanes within a time limit to accept them, otherwise they’d have to go somewhere else…
Anyway, what I wanted to say is: there are numeroes events happening at an airport that wouldn’t make a specific airliner or manufacturer look bad, or make people afraid to fly, and would definetely add some interesting events to catch up our attention in a good way.
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I can see merit in some of those, for aircraft delays etc, I think that could be incorporated, it’s the true emergencies that won’t happen, and will never happen.
That said, the one thing devs need to be careful is not lose sight of what made this game, which is managing airport operations airside. As i said a number of those ideas could work, but i am not sure the intermal cargo and baggage ones would work and i’ve never heard the devs talk about that.
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Can be something really simple, instead of the luggage button to unload and load, a crystal glass icon saying it’s a special, fragile cargo. As simple as: it takes longer to load because it’s fragile, and if you don’t pay attention, you might delay the plane…
I’m just throwing ideas here! I am extremely excited about this devblog and if they’re able to implement half of it, I’ll be more then happy for the whole of 2025! 
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Thank you very much for 2024. For 2025 this is a grandiose plan. I like especially the traffic Management Tool, where it will be possible to choose the runway. I hop we will get the possibility to get more handlers in IAD. The capacity is more less than in BKK with one runway fewer. happy new year 2025
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Wow ! this upcoming features were great and exciting, I hope NAIA airport is one of the new airports you guys were doing, more power to all of you !!
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The feature I’ve been waiting for is coming soon
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Same my friend
I just hope they change the time speed as well
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