Airports you collect, and an index of every airport we hear
Since September every caught flight with a published route has been stamped with its airports. Your profile showed them as a passport, but nothing came of it. Now it does.
Ports of Call counts the distinct airports on the routes of flights you caught. Tiers sit at 10, 25, 50, 100 and 250 airports. Passport Stamps counts the countries those airports are in, at 5, 10, 20, 40 and 60. The top tier of each pays 15 Tridents. The top tier of Ports of Call also gives the Globetrotter title, and the top tier of Passport Stamps an amber passport frame for your name plate in the sky. Your history counts: the numbers were filled in from every catch you already made, so if you've been catching long-haul flights for a month, you may already be a few tiers in.
A route here is the published timetable for the flight number on the day you caught it. It tells you where the flight was scheduled to go, not where that aircraft actually landed, and a ferry flight under someone else's callsign will still count its timetable.
Receivers get the same idea
A receiver hears flights to and from airports it will never see. Since this morning each station is credited with the airports of the flights it hears, and two achievements read that: Far Ears (airports, 25 to 1,000) and Border Listener (countries, 10 to 100). The top tier of Far Ears comes with a title of the same name. If you run several antennas, they count once, as a union: two of your receivers hearing the same flight to Dubai give you one Dubai. The station page has a new block listing the countries and airports its antenna has heard flights for, and your card on /feed shows the airport count. This only started today, so early numbers are small.
Who caught the most through an airport
Every airport page now has a short board of the players who caught the most flights to or from it. It appears once at least two players have caught there. One name on a board is just a name.
Every airport in one list
The new Airports section of the Directory lists every airport that has a page, busiest first, with a search box and sorting by name or country. Busiest means the flights our receivers heard heading there over the last 30 days, plus the flights players caught through it. We count airline flight numbers once a day each, not runway movements, and the page says so.
City pages got a matching block: the airports within 120 km of the city that the network hears, each linked to its page.
Facts about the airport itself
Airport pages also show what we didn't know before: the town an airport serves, its elevation, how many runways it has and how long the longest one is. This comes from OurAirports, a public-domain dataset kept by volunteers, and the page credits it. Where OurAirports has a Wikipedia article for the airport, we link to it.
See every airport the network hears for how the 30-day counts are made.