I never understood why people value airspawn so much. If I force you to miss on our first interaction and have you consume your energy, what do you have left? Nothing.
It gives you a lot of free energy, altitude, and speed. An xp-50 wouldn’t be as big of a threat if it didn’t start 1.5-2km above the airfield. Same thing with the F-84s, they are one of the fastest planes at their BR and they get an airspawn that allows them to easily get to 5km while other planes struggle to get to 3km.
Air RB is all about snowballing.
Airspawn allows you to intercept, disrupt and potentially kill enemy players who are still climbing or gaining a position.
Even just disrupting them and forcing them to react to you means they’re not able to threaten your team. If you manage to aggro 2+ enemies like this, that gives your team a decent advantage, which allows them to snowball.