Grow a one-plane startup into a global airline by managing routes, aircraft and crews in a living simulation.
You start with $20 million and an empty hangar. Where you take it is up to you.
Airline Architect is a deep, realistic airline-management sim. Buy or lease your fleet, open routes across a living world of real airports, hire crews, and grow a one-plane startup into a global carrier, all while the simulation never pauses.
MATCH THE RIGHT AIRCRAFT TO THE RIGHT MARKET
A genuine passenger-demand model makes route selection the whole game — a big jet on a thin route flies half-empty, and a small one leaves money on the table. Thirty-plus real-world aircraft, from short-field turboprops to the largest widebodies, each with real range, capacity, and economics.
RUN A REAL OPERATION
• Own your fleet — buy new, lease, or hunt the used-aircraft market. Every airframe ages, and old metal costs more to keep flying.
• Crews follow real duty and rest limits — one crew can't fly forever, so staffing is a genuine decision.
• Weather, mechanical failures, and crew shortages surface as live choices you resolve while every other aircraft keeps flying. The clock never stops.
GO DEEP,
NOT JUST WIDE
• Establish hubs and build airport clubs to fortify a city, hold off competitors, and build loyalty — with a live payback view so you know if it's working.
• Fund expansion with loans — or take your airline public, with a live share price, activist investors, and a board that can vote you out.
• Reached the top? Scout rival carriers and acquire them — then survive the messy integration.
A WORLD THAT FEELS ALIVE
• 469 real airports across the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific — including exotic island strips only the right aircraft can reach.
• Real seasons — hurricane season, winter storms, and monsoon shape where and when disruptions strike.
• A day/night line sweeps across the map, and real airport night curfews close cities to late departures — a real cost of flying there.
• Rival carriers contest your most profitable routes and fly fleets true to the real world.
Speed time up to 100×, watch the revenue roll in, and keep the whole network flying.
Build the sky.
LEGAL
This is the most all-encompassing business simulation game I’ve run into on the App Store, and I really appreciate the developer’s response to all the reviews.
Honestly one of the best airline sims I’ve played. So many others are scared to put the maintenance options, or put real setbacks into the aspect.
This game is so much fun to play! I wish there were more airport to choose from within the United States and I wish there was a way to toggle all of the notifications,…