Picture a small terminal somewhere in the late 1930s. Brass fittings, a clattering Split Flap board, the kind of place Wes Anderson would film. That's Frequent Flyer, a six-reel grid from Relax Gaming released back in August 2020 and still one of their stranger ideas.
The math is straightforward enough. 6×4 layout, 40 paylines, 96% RTP, high variance. Stake range runs 0.10 to 100 per spin and the ceiling sits at 5,000x. Hit rate hovers around 25%, which is fine for a slot leaning this hard on bonus rounds. Don't expect huge base game fireworks. The pay table is built around the trips.
Here's the hook. Across the top of the reels sits a Split Flap departure board, the same mechanical sign that used to flip through arrival times at old airports. Land 5 or more Split Flap symbols anywhere on the grid and the board locks onto one of three destinations. Each one fires a different free spins variant.
Unpack Relax gives you only 5 spins but with a 3x multiplier and 3 wilds dropped on every spin. Aggressive, short, sharp. Sky Tours trims the multiplier to 2x and the spin count to 3, but throws in 6 wilds per spin. Travel Gurus stretches things out to 5 spins with a single wild and a brutal 6x multiplier. Three completely different shapes of bonus, which is unusual.
There's a fourth round called Tour It that randomises everything between 4 and 20 spins, 2x to 6x, 1 to 10 wilds per spin. Sometimes it's mediocre, sometimes it's the run that pays for the session. And once you've triggered all three named tours, the meta Frequent Flyer Bonus opens up. That's the proper trip.
Base game has its own trick too. Final Call can fire on any losing spin and drops two pre-stopped Split Flap symbols onto the board, which sometimes nudges you into a trigger you didn't expect.
One catch worth flagging. There's no buy bonus. You actually have to wait for the board to cooperate, which in a high-variance slot can mean long stretches of nothing. But the theme is genuine, the bonus design is layered, and Frequent Flyer still feels like nothing else in Relax's catalog.