i start with europe, connect all the local cities very well, and have one large airport in a region for larger international flights, it is a flawed strategy as for example, i went to iceland and greenland, to connect them to connect the us to there cities, placed five maxxed planes on a route to london, and another to nuuk, and it is still hard to not make the larger airports in the us connected to europe overflow

web dat shit up thats my tip

Thanks a lot! I was getting pretty far into Europe and Africa with 160 minutes on the clock, but noticed that my income was no longer covering the speed required to unlock countries. I quickly bought the united states and a bit later china, and I got back on pace.

wow

I tried doing hub and spoke for a while but it didn't gel for me. Rn I'm grinding Ladder & my strat is to connect up 4 or 5 small countries very fast with three routes to each airport: two local and one way out. I only upgrade my level 1 planes once and my capitals once, plus connect all my capitals together. Midgame, I connect each to only two close, but fill in any places on the map that look empty or too one-directional, then upgrade planes to 3, cities to 2, & horde money. If it's under 15 territories, I spam purchases. If it's more than that, for my endgame, I plan (I haven't gotten there yet) to save up for major countries like Russia, China, the US, etc, to speed up my dragon's horde, then using the above country spam to hit my goal. I don't get overcrowding warnings and I can play fairly passively, which I prefer. I like to imagine the people really appreciate the locally focused service. Is this a good strategy or should I try harder on the hubs?

and france is close to spain and portugal. they are gate to africa so france is quite useful

france is good start. it make domintion over africa and europe. and expansion is all to you.

I tend to stick to the hub and spoke model when playing. In larger countries like the US, I'll pick airports based on regions to act as hubs. Only hubs can go to other hubs, while spokes can go to their respective hubs within their country or region.

i start with a small country farm buy a bordering country repeat untill i have around like 5k -10k then i buy something big like russia, usa, china etc

I start off actually with china! as it makes you alot, I go buy countries one by one by population. It gives many money