Sky Harbor Tycoon: building an airport that doesn't jam

Everyone's first Sky Harbor Tycoon airport eventually jams. Queues back up, travelers get grumpy, and you're bulldozing everything to fix it. The trick is planning for growth before you need it.

Leave space between your gates and services early, even when it feels wasteful. A cramped terminal is fine at first and miserable by the time you've got a dozen gates. I now leave wide central walkways from the start.

Staffing is the other half. Under-staffed check-in creates a bottleneck that ripples through the whole building. Watch where the crowds clump and add people there rather than everywhere at once.

Once the flow works, expansion becomes fun instead of stressful. You stop firefighting and start actually enjoying the little chaos of a busy airport.