When you create an airport and Sims come to your city, where do they come from? Existing cities from other players, other cities in your game, do they just pop up?
Where do Sims come from when they use an airplane
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You can gift any of the 10 commodities to any other city in your region that has a road or rail connection. You can also gift cash.
To do this, go to region view while loaded into the city you wish to send the gift. Once your camera pans out, select the city you wish to receive the gift, but do NOT load it. Once the city is selected, click the gift button on your toolbar (it will be the farthest icon on the right). This will allow you to send anything your host city has in stock to the remote city.
A couple of caveats:
The host city must have the item in supply at a trade depot or at a place of origin. Such as the coal mine or oil well. The host city also must provide a vehicle for transport (each of these sources has 1 by default, more can be added via module).
The destination city must have a place to store the item, such as their own trade depot with the appropriate module OR a building that can receive it (in this case, the smelter).
Gifting is not instant. The item has to actually be physically loaded into a vehicle and transported to the other city. I like to wait for the notification at the top of the screen confirming that a "gift has been sent to city X". By the same token, the other city will take a bit of time to receive the gift as it is in transit. When the gift is received, you will also get a notification.
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In the tutorial when the game starts. They explain that the airport is used to move workers from one city space to another. There is a way in the region view to see the flight paths of airplanes between each city.
I think you must have at least 2 cities in the region, each with an airport to have workers fly between cities.
If you have another player in your region, ask them to make an airport so you can share workers.