Unlocking planes vs premium passes

I have 34 GP right now, and was looking at unlocking a new plane in the hangar.
Do you guys recommend:
-buying the B744 (exactly 34 GP with the livery)
-saving up for LHR premium pass (and get planes that way)
-Or buying another plane?

(Right now I have unlocked the A332, A35K and A380 L/X planes)

What livery are you buying? If so the 747-400 is a great aircraft to make both SP and money.

I’m deciding between basic 4 or 6. I was also considering the B77W, but that costs twice as much with the livery (68 GP) as the B744

Get the 747-400 if you want, I would also recommend the 777-300ER a few months ago but since it was remodeled and triple the price it’s not worth it.

I just unlocked the 747, and bought one for LHR

My experience is that the best way to progress is with the freebies you get from the premium pass at the various playable airports.

Also, cargo planes give you the most amount of XP’s to help progress through the airports. Look for the closest routes with the largest planes, make them your favorites and handle them exclusively.

An example at LHR is a UPS Airlines / A306F to EMA (East Midlands). It has a 27 minute round trip and after you reach a contract level of 10, you get 134 XPs. Combine this with other high XP routes, my top 10 yield me about 100 XPs per hour of play at LHR.

LHR has 39 fleet planes as rewards for progressing through the levels and 17 contracts.

On last recommendation, the silver planes you accumulate are extremely valuable (and larger aircraft yield a higher amount of silver planes every time you complete a contract (the same UPS / A306F from above gives me 344 silver planes). Every day you can convert 1500 silver planes to 1 gold and once a week you can convert 10000 silver planes to 10 gold… so for 20500 silver planes per week you can purchase 17 gold planes.

Again, my opinion is to use your gold planes to unlock airports and purchase premium passes.