How Scoring Works

1. XP Overview

Every completed flight earns base XP plus bonuses for new discoveries, long flights, and more. The more you fly, the more you earn.

Streak Multiplier

Fly at least once per calendar week to build a streak. Your multiplier starts at 1.0x and increases by 0.1x for every consecutive week, capped at 2.0x after 10+ weeks. The multiplier applies to all bonuses above.

2. Annual vs Lifetime XP

Annual XP

Resets every January 1, just like airline frequent flyer status. Your annual XP determines your seasonal ranking on the leaderboard. New year, clean slate.

Lifetime XP

Never resets. Lifetime XP represents your total career as a flyer and determines your tier.

3. King of the Route

Fly a route more than anyone else and you become King of that route. It is the ultimate bragging right for frequent flyers.

A rolling 90-day crown

The live King title runs on a rolling 90-day cycle — only your flights on a route over the last 90 days count toward the crown. That means the crown is never permanent. As older flights age out of the window your count drops, so you have to keep flying the route to keep the title. Stop flying it and another flyer can take your crown.

Annual & lifetime standings

Alongside the live crown, Row1 also tracks your current-calendar-year and all-time flight counts on each route. These are bragging-rights stats for your profile and year-end recap — they do not change who currently holds the rolling crown.

Mayor of the Airport

Same concept, but for the most flights through a specific airport over the rolling window. Fly through DFW more than anyone else? You are the Mayor.

• Competing for King requires a paid membership. Free members can view king standings, but you must be a paid member to hold a crown.
• You need at least 2 flights on a route to be eligible for King.
• Private profiles and excluded accounts do not appear in king rankings.
• Only flights that are competitively eligible count toward king standings (see "Which Flights Count" below).

4. Which Flights Count

Why we have these rules

Row1 launched in 2026. We want the leaderboards to reflect real flying, not who can type the fastest. So we require proof that you actually flew.

Current-year flights (2026)

Flights imported from a trusted source count for XP, badges, and king standings:

• Flighty (CSV export)
• MyFlightRadar24 or OpenFlights (CSV export)
• Email confirmations — forward booking emails to your Row1 import address
• Boarding pass scans — import an Apple Wallet boarding pass
• Row1 flight monitoring — flights tracked through the app

Manually entered flights do not earn XP, badges, or king status for the current year. You can still log them for your personal record, but they will not appear on leaderboards or unlock achievements. This prevents anyone from typing in 100 fake flights to dominate the leaderboard on day one.

Pre-join historical flights

Want your flights from before you joined Row1 to count? You have two options:

• Export your flight history from Flighty as a CSV and import it in the app.
• Forward your booking confirmation emails to your Row1 import address.

Manually entered historical flights are logged for your records but do not count competitively.

Going forward (after you join)

• All imported and tracked flights are competitively eligible right away.
• Row1 also verifies flights automatically in the background. Verified flights earn a small XP bonus.
• Manual entries are welcome for personal tracking but will not count toward king standings or leaderboards.

5. Flight Verification

Row1 automatically verifies your flights in the background using a proprietary algorithm. You do not need to do anything — verification happens on its own, even while you use other apps.

Verified flights earn a small XP bonus of up to 25 XP. To keep the leaderboards fair and prevent gaming, we don't publish the details of how verification works.

6. Badges

There are 304 badges across 4 categories: Original, Unicorn, Loyalist, and Boneyard.

• Badges are earned automatically when you meet specific criteria -- number of flights, airports visited, aircraft types flown, carrier loyalty, and more.
• Each badge awards XP when unlocked (from 50 up to 3,000 XP depending on difficulty).
• Badge progress is evaluated every time you complete a flight.

7. Streaks

Fly at least once in any calendar week to keep your streak alive. Consistency is rewarded.

• Your streak multiplier increases by 0.1x per consecutive week, up to 2.0x at 10 weeks.
• Miss a week? Your streak resets to 1. But streak shields forgive a single missed week — Annual and Lifetime members get one shield per month.
• Your longest streak is permanently recorded -- it can never go down, even if your current streak resets.

8. Companions ("Flew With")

Tag friends who were on the same flight. When they confirm, both of you earn a companion bonus.

• 50 XP per confirmed companion, up to a maximum of 250 XP per flight (5 companions).
• Your friend gets a copy of the flight in their logbook automatically.
• You must be friends on Row1 to tag someone as a companion.

9. Challenges

Weekly and monthly challenges let you compete against other Row1 members on specific goals.

• Challenges track specific targets: total flights, miles flown, airports visited, and more.
• Challenge XP is awarded when you meet the target during the challenge period.

10. Deleting Flights

Flights that have been recorded as completed can be deleted, but there are limits to prevent abuse.

Cooldown period

After deleting a flight, there is a 24-hour cooldown before you can re-add the same flight. This prevents gaming the system by repeatedly deleting and re-adding flights to manipulate XP.

What happens when you delete a flight

• XP earned from that flight is subtracted from your total.
• Badges that were unlocked by that flight may be revoked if you no longer meet the criteria.
• King standings are recalculated -- you may lose a crown.
• Companion bonuses on that flight are removed for all parties.

Disruptive deletion limit

After 5 disruptive deletions (deletions that affect king standings), your account is flagged for review. This prevents users from strategically deleting and re-adding flights to manipulate leaderboards.

11. Leaderboards

Global leaderboards rank all public profiles by XP, flights, miles, airports, and streak.

• Leaderboard rankings reflect only competitively eligible flights.
• Private profiles are not shown on leaderboards.