Mission 5 - Air Mail Scandal | The USA Campaign Transport Fever Guide

Last update: 06 December 2016

You will head a company that has adopted investing into aviation, and revolutionizing human transport, as its main goal. Before you do that, though, you will have to handle some more mundane tasks:

Obtain the permission to perform the first landing. In total, you can obtain five such permissions, where you need only four. Each of the airports has quite different tasks. After you click on the question mark above each city, you will learn more.

Santa Barbara (1). Join the game at the poker table and bet $ 5mil. You will lose the money, but you will obtain the permission. This one is the easiest to obtain.

Los Angeles (2). Deliver machinery (100 units). Before that, you have to start steel production. Fortunately, the road system already exists and the only thing you have to do is to erect a truck depot. Assign more trucks to the steel mine to balance out the production. Building a railway may cost you a lot, due to the hilly area. Transport steel to the station by the factory in a separate transport. Try to build the station as far away from the city as possible, but within the reach of the factory and build another unloading bay in the industrial district (the game will decide that since there is industry near the station, machines will have to be transported there also; this way you will eliminate this problem).

San Diego (3). Deliver fuel (100 units) to the city. The situation here is the same as above. This time, bring oil to the refinery by the city and distribute fuel around the local industry. The area here is quite flat and you only have to build two bridges to get things done. I recommend against using a ship. It moves slowly and it can transport as little as a single train.

Phoenix (4). Transport 100 tourists to the scenic point close to Las Vegas quarry. A bus line and 4 vehicles will be enough to be able to complete this mission. Build a road there, but mind the costs. The closer to the destination you are, the more hilly the surface. Build a sinuous road to cut down on your expenses.

Las Vegas (5). Deliver building materials to the dam building site. The only problem here is the location of the quarry. The river is perfect for transporting stone. From there, establish a small transportation route. Personally, I have tried using the ship. Although I found it incredibly slow, The costs were extremely low (I only had to build ports). It is better to build a route partially along the coast and partially between individual hills. Or spend more and build a tunnel and establish a long route for trucks. The cost of vehicles will be lower and transportation will be faster (in the long run).

Air Mail. Now, establish 4 unique air connections that do not yet exist. For example: Los Angeles - Santa Barbara, LA - Phoenix, LA - San Diego and Phoenix - San Diego. Thanks to this, you will quickly earn the required 4 mil.

Pay the fine and transport 300 passengers on DC-3. Now, you will have to bear the consequences of your company's activities. Earnings from the previous mission will not be available anymore. However, you can focus on sending machines, fuel or food to other cities to establish a new, profitable connection. Ignore Las Vegas - this is a small city, quite distant from the rest and it is surrounded by inaccessible area.

You will be tasked with transporting people to a different city, via the air route (this is required for completion of the mission). Sell all the airplanes that you have previously had and establish one, or two airlines. Have them both start in Los Angeles, the biggest city in that area. One of the routes should go to Phoenix (many people traveling to the scenic point) and the other one to Santa Barbara (you can transport food from farms there, thanks to which you will reach higher contentment and increase the appeal of the city) or to San Diego. Remember to establish bus lines from the airports, because some of them are located quite far away from the cities. Without that, you will be unable to transport anybody.

Medals

Aviation Pioneer. It may be challenging to end the mission before 1943. The greatest one will be to pay the fine quickly, towards the end of the mission. Expand your transportation network to exploit any potential of the materials that you transport. Deliver fuel, building materials, machines and food to more distant cities to max out on you profits. Also, invest in passenger planes and appropriate base for airports. You can earn quite a lot of cash on passengers, but it is commodities that are your priority.

High Flyer. As soon as you have tome loose cash, buy the cheapest planes (Junkers planes are 150-200 thousand each), before their line is discontinued. They do not have to fly. Keep them in garages, or they will be generating costs.

Industry Boom. If you establish machinery delivery lines, bus lines and airlines between cities (in the end, you can also make money on an additional commodity, e.g. fuel), the city will expand with time and new workplaces will be formed.