What the Great Leader Checklist tracks
The airport has goals that extend beyond keeping one employee alive. Airport Contraband's Great Leader Checklist tracks inspection paths and their objectives, while path choices introduce the corresponding challenges. In the recorded tutorial, the emergency exit well can save pending checklist progress when you switch employees.
Player experience in the prerelease playthrough introduces the checklist after the airport is threatened with closure. The explanation assigns its demands to the current officer and their successors, making it part of the game's longer progression rather than just a single day's passenger score.
The official Steam achievements page confirms two related milestones: Halfway There for completing half of the Paths, and The Great Leader Checklist for completing the entire checklist.
Choose paths to introduce their inspection challenges
The recorded tutorial uses newspaper headline choices to select a new path. Its explanation says a new choice comes every two days and that each option adds its own challenges.
Examples in that player experience include:
- Contraband: Identify illegal goods, confiscate them, and arrest smugglers.
- Invalid IDs: Scan passenger documents and distinguish expired papers from forgeries.
- Cargo: Move shipments between vehicles and respond to loads needing special intervention.
- Diseases: Examine passengers and apply the current health regulations.
- Concealed items: Handle an additional extraction challenge beyond a basic body search.
Those examples explain how choosing a path changes the work you encounter. They are not an exhaustive checklist or a promise that every path appears in the same order in every version.
Separate path objectives from daily cartel assignments
The checklist and a daily cartel telegram are different things. A path can introduce a system such as contraband inspection, while a cartel assignment can ask you to misuse that system by allowing a particular item through.
Read both before acting. Advancing an inspection mechanic does not mean that the cartel's preferred outcome is a clean control, and completing one telegram does not establish that a whole checklist path is finished.
The prerelease player experience also shows upgrade-point choices attached to path selection. Those choices affect the tools or perks available for handling that path. Use the offer displayed in your own game rather than assuming a particular early-build price or target applies universally.
Use the well to preserve the progress its description names
In the recorded tutorial, the emergency well's description explicitly includes saving pending Great Leader Checklist progress when you leave the current employee and hire the next one. It also describes bonus Dream Coins based on the number of days that employee survived.
This is an immediate employee change. Check the transition description before confirming it, because using the well is not simply returning to your quarters for another shift with the same officer.
That evidence supports the progress-saving effect described for the well. It should not be extended into an unsupported claim that every possible death, dismissal, or interrupted save preserves every kind of pending progress in exactly the same way.
Measure milestones without inventing a full target list
The achievement descriptions establish partial and full checklist milestones, but they do not publish every objective's numeric target. The recorded checklist contains multiple kinds of inspection work, so read the relevant entry in your current run when deciding what remains.
Treat a single objective, a finished path, and the entire checklist as different levels of progress. The half-completion achievement concerns Paths; it is not described as simply finishing half of today's passengers or earning half of a reputation tier.
FAQ
Is the checklist just one employee's daily task list?
No. The recorded introduction assigns the airport's demands to the officer and their successors, and the Steam achievements refer to completing its Paths.
What is the Halfway There achievement?
The collected Steam description says it is awarded for completing half of the Paths on the Great Leader Checklist.
Can the well save pending checklist progress?
Yes. That effect is stated in the recorded emergency-exit description, alongside changing employees and awarding bonus Dream Coins.