Airline Manager

Airline Manager

Released Jun 2021

Create and manage your own airline. Create both passenger and cargo routes all over the world while you upgrade and expand your fleet of airplanes and airports. Airline Manager is among the most realistic of its genre - so prove yourself and beat your friends and other real life managers.

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Where to get it

Free on Steam

Evaluation

Airline Manager is a free-to-play multiplayer aviation simulation that launched on June 23, 2021 and has been continuously operated as a live service since then. The game features rotating seasonal events, daily reward systems, ad-rewardable marketing boosts, and ongoing global challenge events — all structures typical of a game designed to run indefinitely. Developer activity remains consistent and recent. On August 12, 2026, the developer added a new aircraft — the A350-1000 ULR — expanding the in-game fleet with new stats and gameplay options. On July 23, 2026, the daily gift system was updated from bi-weekly to daily rewards, and in-game mail notifications were removed to address server performance issues. A May 18, 2026 update delivered an improved satellite map with enhanced zoom levels. Earlier, a January 15, 2026 post confirmed the team was actively working on an improved Global Milestone event system, with upcoming additions for cargo and charter flight challenges. The game is actively maintained and updated, with the most recent developer communication dated August 12, 2026.
Evidence
New aircraft added: A350-1000 ULR with ultra-long range stats, expanding the in-game fleet.
news post · Aug 12, 2026 source content shipped
high
Developer confirms active work on improved Global Milestone events with upcoming additional challenges for cargo and charter flights.
news post · Jan 15, 2026 source content planned
high

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Details

Developer
Publisher
Trophy Games
Achievements
81
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · PvP

About this game

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.

Last evaluated Aug 19, 2026
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