I’m enjoying the new Zurich Airport overall, but the current ground crew limits make it extremely difficult to play properly, even with the Premium Pass.
Aircraft regularly sit waiting for ground services, which creates constant delays and quickly causes the airport to become congested. This is not because the airport is being managed poorly, but because it seems impossible to realistically obtain enough ground crew to handle the number of aircraft and services required.
I understand that additional ground crew can be purchased using Gold Planes, but 10 Gold Planes for just one ground crew member is not a realistic or reasonable solution. The cost is far too high considering how many additional crew members are needed to make Zurich run smoothly.
It also makes some of the progression objectives feel unrealistic. The game encourages players to increase traffic and complete more turnarounds, but the available ground crew cannot keep up with that level of activity. Even Premium Pass players are still heavily restricted, which makes the benefit of paying for Premium feel inadequate at Zurich.
Please consider increasing the maximum number of ground crew available at Zurich, reducing the cost of purchasing additional crew, or adjusting the crew requirements and progression objectives to better reflect what players can realistically achieve.
At the moment, the ground crew bottleneck is taking away much of the enjoyment from an otherwise impressive new airport.
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Sorry i disagree wholeheartedly. i much prefer the ground crew limit as it helps to keep the airport busy. im level 36 and can easily clear the contracts i have relatively quickly.
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Compared to LEJ, ZRH already has a very sufficient amount of handling crews. After all, ZRH only has one runway for landing and is also affected by the takeoff runway, so the landing efficiency is not very high. LEJ is a cargo airport, and both runways can be used for landing. Wide body cargo planes also require longer handling time. Therefore, in order to ensure the normal operation of LEJ, I have already spent 360 gold planes to purchase handling crews, and will continue to do so in the future.
More importantly, WOA is a free game, and developers need financial support. Players who want to have a better gaming experience can purchase items that enhance airport processing capabilities according to their own needs, and recharging to obtain gold planes to purchase handling crews is also a behavior that supports developers.In conclusion, the purchased handling crews can be used permanently, which is a valuable investment for your long-term operational base airport
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I think maybe even with the more efficient Runway 32 and 34 operation the crew number is fine, it won’t get like BKK where you have dozens of planes on the ground waiting to be handled (actually I think the situation in ZRH is better than HKG, believe it or not!)
If you need more crews I think the best way is to buy some with golden planes. Since I don’t play with player fleet I have no reason to unlock these planes which give me GPs to spend on crews.
Meanwhile, I am waiting for the update of IAD and LEJ to see if I need to buy more…
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What I do with each new airport is opening all gates/stands for A cat and close those that are not needed for startup. You get a contract and crewmember with each stand.
The money comes from converting GP’s and/or selling “generic” rewardplanes from the Premium Pass, accumulated from previous airports.
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I have all stands, pass handling crew, and equipment unlocked, and I’m not experiencing this at all on my game. I never run out of handling crew, and I’m always able to start handling a plane once it arrives at its gate. Two things I might consider:
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Some planes require more crew than others. You may have too many planes requiring high amounts of crew in your incoming plane mix. I use realistic contracts in addition to my own fleet and some historic planes and plane types, so if for example your plane mix is mostly A388s, try swapping these for smaller planes (like B787s).
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You don’t need to use max handling crew on every plane. I personally only use max crew on my own fleet and incoming player contracts. AI contracts get the minimum amount of crew to keep them in the green. This keeps the airport fuller (which is more enjoyable for me) and reduces the amount of handling crew I’m using on each plane keeping me with a surplus.
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Thanks, but I do know how to play the game. I’m simply sharing my own experience and feedback on the crew balance at ZRH, not asking for gameplay advice.
I’m perfectly happy to support the developers, hence purchasing Premium Pass across multiple airports. Let’s not jump to conclusions that I’m simply asking for more. It was just my personal observation about the balance at ZRH, it’s really not that deep.
I myself do not have any issues with ZRH, at least not with ground crew. It’s definitely not as bad with ground crew as SCL, BKK, or MCT, and it’s most certainly not even close to the nightmarish LEJ and IAD.
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