Complete guide for new players

[Waervyn]

Hi everyone. Airport CEO seems to be in the process of becoming one of my favourite games. However, many of the mechanisms are not very well explained (yet), and some things like conveyor belts are easy to get wrong. Therefore, I spent quite some time making a beginner's guide consisting of 5 parts. At the moment everything is in video format, but as many people prefer reading I hope to create a written version as well soon. I hope it's useful to at least some people! If you have any questions or comments, please let me know!

Part 1: Making money
This video shows the basic functionality of the UI, and shows how to quickly become profitable using General Aviation as opposed to commercial airlines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U66F8vdsF3E

Part 2: First commercial flight
Here we delve into commercial flights: what do we need and how to set them up.
https://youtu.be/yTgurXX5-48

Part 3: Medium flights and basic hygiene
Medium flights are much more profitable, but also need some extra setup. Here's how.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMRiaaCfXOI

Part 4: Conveyor belts
Conveyor belts are sometimes still pretty buggy, but they can be made to work. This guide goes into all the steps required for a working conveyor belt system.
https://youtu.be/1P-iza2GiP4

Part 5: Shops and food
Customers want to eat and shop. Let's have a look at how to cater to their needs.
https://youtu.be/a186uuyHM54

[Agathorn (SH)]

Good on you. I was going to do this but with the near constant state of patching and restarting, I decided to wait lol.

[davies_family4]

I wish this forums have "Like buttons" so I can give the original poster thumbs up.

[Waervyn]

Originally posted by Agathorn (SH):

Good on you. I was going to do this but with the near constant state of patching and restarting, I decided to wait lol.

Thanks. Yeah I've had to restart several times due to bugs and actually during recording a patch came out. Really like that the devs are very active. Let's see how long it takes for the guide to be completely outdated :)

Originally posted by davies_family4:

I wish this forums have "Like buttons" so I can give the original poster thumbs up.

Thanks, glad you liked it! :)

[pmierow]

Good one.
Thank you very much !

[MachaQueso]

These videos are much better than my attempt at a tutorial during a live stream yesterday, I stream in spanish thought.

I noticed you start part 1 following the same idea that the game manuals are not really worth following because they make you do things in a weird order. I hope devs take notice of that and rewrite them.

EDIT: r/tutorials/game manuals/

[Avwriter]

They really need to make this post a sticky, or add these videos to the Community Guides section in Steam.

[StingFinity]

I enjoyed these video’s a lot. They deserve some more attention in my opinion. Hopefully pderuiter or fredrik picks up on this and make it sticky or something. Good job!

(Goed gewerkt pik ;-)

[Waervyn]

Thanks for the kind words, glad you found it useful!
I'm looking forward to making more guides once more mechanics are in the game :)

[Adeon]

Originally posted by davies_family4:

I wish this forums have "Like buttons" so I can give the original poster thumbs up.

Hah, I was about to post this exact same thing! I guess this thread bump, and Liking the vids on YouTube will have to do

Originally posted by Avwriter:

They really need to make this post a sticky, or add these videos to the Community Guides section in Steam.

Seconded!

[[1stAL] S8SAssassin]

Nice one, would really help some of the new players that play.

[pderuiter]

Reminder to self: watch and pin if good

[Fredrik]

I only watched a little bit but I think it is really great and should be pinned! This is exactly how we intended the progress from a small airfield to a large airport.

[JustcallmeCoco]

Awesome! This helped me so much! Thanks for the effort!

[LooneyOnTheLoose]

good vids still running in to problems but this has me hooked i just had 3 days and clocked 30 hours still not got baggs to work or even got more than a few planes up and runinng

[pj800265]

Thanks for that pal. Now I know hot to build the great international airport from scratch. And hopefully, devs add more new features soon, like large runways and so on.... :)