Leaderboards are four global top 100 lists, not one power score. A single server holds up to eight players, and every airline in that server is drawn on the shared globe. The global boards pull standings from the wider player base. Official media shows a Players panel with This server and Global top 100 tabs.
The four boards
| Board | What it counts | What moves it |
|---|---|---|
| Net worth | Cash, aircraft, and owned airports | Paid flights, then reinvesting into jets and gates |
| Fleet | Registered aircraft | Buying types you can maintain, from the used 737-200 upward |
| Routes | Flight paths drawn between airports you own | New lines, including multi-stop sequences |
| Airports | Hubs and destinations you purchased | Buying nodes on the 1,100+ airport globe |
Air News broadcasts major milestones, crashes, groundings, and Early Supporter joins. A gold aircraft on the map marks a pass holder, not a higher rank by itself. Pass holders also get an Early Supporter label beside the name.
Dollars on screenshots are not the live board
One official frame shows multi-billion net worth already beside ranks in the forties, with other rows in the tens of millions. A gameplay write-up separately reported a top value of $1.3 trillion and a personal network near $100 million with 8 aircraft and 10 airports. Use those only to see how wide the scale is. Ranks in the art are a promotional moment.
Badges that mark the same progress
First 5 Routes is the clear operational badge: five established routes. You Joined Airline Executive, Alpha Tester, and Beta Tester mark presence in a phase, not skill. Met the Developer is awarded for sharing a server with developer 530 or another development-team member. Billionaire! and Absolute Madlad use joke catalog lines and are tied in progression notes to high valuation, without a published dollar threshold. What an Interesting Route! appears in badge stats and has no catalog description in the seven-badge list.
The full catalog text is on the badges wiki. Chasing a board by deferring maintenance removes the aircraft that board is counting.