Airline Manager

Airline Manager

Trophy Games · June 23, 2021 · Simulation, Flight, Strategy, Free to Play, Transportation

Airline Manager is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Airline Manager price

Airline Manager is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About Airline Manager

✦ AI summary

Airline Manager is a deep multiplayer aviation simulation where you build and manage an airline empire across over 3,600 real-world airports with more than 360 authentic aircraft types. Outmaneuver competitors through strategic route planning, fleet management, maintenance scheduling, and dynamic pricing while balancing tactical complexity with accessibility through easy and realism modes.

Create and manage your own airline strategy

In this multiplayer aviation simulation game you have the possibility to become bigger than real businesses such as United Airlines, Emirates, British Airways, Lufthansa, American Airlines and Ryanair.
You can even travel while being idle on your couch to a big airport in an amazing city such as New York, Paris, Berlin, Los Angeles, London and Dallas - you don’t even have to fly yourself!

Choose between 2 game modes: EASY or REALISM. Go the easy way to lower prices and increase profits or challenge yourself with realism where you have to consider the smallest things like the length of airport runways.

Take the fastest route possible to transport your cargo or passengers. Not by land or sea. But by air. Not by rental car, train, bus or ship. But by aircraft. Buy your fleet of flights and dominate the routes in the skies!

In Airline Manager 4 you get in-depth tactical features like being able to buy more than 360 different real plane types and fly to over 3,600 real airports all over the world.

Aircraft features

  • Track your flights live on the interactive map
  • Schedule plane repairs and maintenance
  • Customize your aircraft seat configuration
  • Buy fuel and CO2 quotas at the right time to optimize profits
  • Much more

Airline features

  • Manage your staff to keep them happy
  • Flight companies can invest in each other to grow stock values
  • Create marketing campaigns to gain popularity
  • Build or join alliances
  • Much more
Become the CEO of an empire of cargo and travel flight routes and utilize your complicated strategy to be the new boss of aviation.

Airline Manager — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Player modes
Single-player, Online PvP
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Airline Manager has an interesting management concept but suffers from extremely slow gameplay paced to real-world flight times, making it tedious without time compression options, combined with aggressive monetization that pushes real-money purchases despite being marketed as free-to-play. Players universally criticize the pace as the game's critical flaw, with most feeling the experience becomes unplayable unless you're willing to leave it running passively or spend money to bypass waiting.

Not recommended Oct 17, 2026
game sucks ass
Recommended Oct 17, 2026
Great
Not recommended Oct 15, 2026
Airline Manager: The Delay Simulator Regret: 93% (boarding since Tuesday) Here is the full gameplay loop. Open a route. Takes 10 seconds. Now wait the real amount of hours it takes a plane to fly there. Come back. Click "do it again". Congratulations, you have played Airline Manager. There is no turbulence, no hijacking, not even a drunk guy in row 14. Just a timer and a gold shop that lets you pay to skip the timer, which is the only real game here. It's a Ryanair delay you signed up for voluntarily. Even the planes in this game get more action than me, and they're idle 90% of the time. [hr][/hr] [b][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/46453681]Help me out by following my Curator, I'd really appreciate it!![/url][/b]
Recommended Oct 14, 2026
It is very cool and allows you to earn what you want
Recommended Oct 11, 2026
its fun
Recommended Oct 9, 2026
took a while just to get a380 without p2w (edit: I "accidentally" bought 100m pack :eyes:)

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