Last updated on December 12th, 2025 at 03:34 am
Airline Manager – 2026 – Strategy Game Review
Airline Manager – 2026 is a Strategy/Simulation game from Xombat ApS, first launched in 28th November 2019.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 4,820+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Airline Manager – 2026 Stand Out
Connect the world and build your own logistic airline network. Buy realistic airplanes and create connections between 4000 real airports. Prove yourself in one of the best free airline manager games in the world, and beat your friends and other real life managers to top the leaderboards.
Game 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
- Manage your staff to keep them happy
- Make investments and grow stock values
- Create marketing campaigns to gain popularity
- Build or join alliances
Create & Manage Your Own Airline Strategy
In this airline management game you have the possibility to become bigger than real businesses such as United Airlines, Emirates, British Airways, Lufthansa, American Airlines and Ryanair. Optimize your flight routes to transport cargo and passengers in the most efficient way.
Select Your Play Style
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 smaller details such as the length of airport landing strips.
In Airline Manager you get in-depth tactical features like being able to buy more than 360 different real plane types and fly to over 4000 real airports all over the world. Become the CEO of an airborne cargo and passenger empire today!
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This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Airline Manager – 2026 is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 18th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
small revisions and App Store icon update
Download & Availability
Airline Manager – 2026 is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Airline Manager – 2026 on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Its a cool game. It is basic with some realism. Time seems to resemble real world, which is cool.
The game is really easy to understand and play, also you can go AFK, all the features are good, not really anything bad with it.
We thought this game was awesome! We love planes and watch planes fly to our nearest airport. We think that this game could do with a little fixing up when making flights. Overall great with great workings! Good job guys.
This game is amazing it is very realistic and very fun really recommend.
This game is really fun, but we noticed it doesnt have Istanbul Airport (IST). It would be even better if there was an auto-takeoff featureId totally pay for that! One more thingwould it be possible to merge the maps? A seamless world where you can scroll from Asia to America, or even better, turn it into a globe view.
As a person on who wants to open his own airline for tours and stuff this is the best game for us because it has financial and tells us what is the best way to make us spend our money on planes and love the routes! But one thing can you add when you get a plane you have to buy a pilot and you have to give the pilot money.
This game is fun. Im just saying that it takes a while too learn about stuff in the game.
We dont know what happend but we bought a pack of 24:99 dollars it charged our account but it did not give us anything can u fix that issue we were logged in with apple.
This is a very awesome game. We love the airline simulation this game provides. And we especially love the notepad.
We love how the game gives you 1,800,000 Million dollars on easy and it has every airport that we been to we love this game.
Our 2nd acc, thats how we love this game.
You can buy almost every aircraft, go every airport. It is amazingly addictive to.
We started out not knowing anything then we got rich and. This game is good now :).
Every time you leave the Game it reset your progress and sometimes it doesnt even work, urgently needs to be fixed unacceptable if you purchased or spend any money in the game you will lose it dont buy this game.
Very challenging game. Enjoy it immensely.
Im never deleting this game and Im keeping it FOREVER.
This game is good in almost every part but for some reason sometimes when we try to go into the game it doesnt load and just stays on a white screen.
We like the game, it's pretty fun. But there should be notifications for when our planes land.
So it has a lot of planes but some of the planes it has has been retired 70 years ago. Also planes arent added regularly. They have new ones (newest one being the Comac C919) but they need to add the Boom Overture since it is entering production in a couple months.
Very fun! But needs a feature where if you are not on it it auto sends the flights and keeps the money in a safe or vault that you can cash out and get the money that you get when you were AFK.
Hi this is a great game and all but majority of the time when we click on the app it takes us to a white screen. We cant do anything or click on anything. We have restarted the app and our phone multiple times and it still doesnt work. Other that that great game.
It is a great game overall we would recommend it needs a fast travel option for example fishing North Atlantic has a fast travel but it uses 20% more fuel we would love to see that in this game.
The An 74 can take 52 people not 16, 16 is the cargo capacity.
So for some reason It always says some A/C is unable to depart because of low fuel even though we bought lot of fuel. Otherwise, good game.
Fuel is way too much money feels like we cant get ahead. The Truck and train fuel management is way better.
We really want to love this game but we cant. The concept is really cool but the need to wait real time for the flight to finish is a bit much. The worst part about it though is that once our flight lands it wont depart again until we tell it too. Thats kind of dumb and a waste of time.
Ive spent some money on this game and nearly half the time we dont receive anything. Ive had to request a refund from apple three times now, each time it feels like fraud. Now the game is pretty okay, takes a while to really start up and some knowledge to start. It just really bugs us to request a refund half the time, if there is a way please fix this, so we dont have to wait 2 days to request a refund from apple.
The game is absolutely fantastic and it has no ads Only problem is planes take real time to get to the destination Even with that the game is amazing.
Very good game we get to buy a lot of airplanes. We dont know how to still buy airplanes but very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very, very, very, very, very, very very very very very very very good games.
Been a fan since the first version. Since version 4, theres no way Ive found to keep the staff happy.. You have to continually increase their salaries until it cost more to pay the staff than you receive from flights. The other issue is maintenance. It tells us maintenance is due, so we go to the plane in the maintenance section, but when we try to approve maintenance, it says no maintenance is due. It still shows up in red, and the plane has a red wrench next to it in the fleet listing.
Game is a simple fun game where youre not always needing to be on to enjoy the game. To our knowledge some of the DLC can be accessed just by playing the game and earning premium currency without spending money.
This game is one of our favorite apps. We have been playing for almost a year now and it is a good time killer.
We have only had this game for a couple of days and Im loving it! It has almost all the things that you would have in real life. The game is so cool. It is so realistic, our favorite part about this game is that you can buy sand sell shares of other airlines. You can even sell your own.
Very fun but we think there should be a single player mode like arcade not like irl airlines and chests like inf money in single player.
They have shown us great management in enterprise. Keep ur good work.
We absolutely love this app. No ads. Two options for playing: realism and easy. Overall perfect.
This game is the best airline management game out there! We think that it is a perfect balance of not too easy and not too hard.
We love it but can you add the Boeing 747 built to transport the space shuttle.
Its too hard to make money. Maybe you can buy a terminal to make 50,000$ extra every 12 hours. Yet it still needs maintenance.
We have been playing this game for a while now and have really enjoyed it. However, it would be nice to see a correct photo of each plane. For example a 737-200 shows a picture of a 737-400. Hopefully those pictures can be fixed. Also would love to have more aircrafts in the game such as 1. Twin otter 2. More private planes 3. More cargo planes If you can respond and let us know if this is possible that would be much appreciated. Again great game and these small adjustments would take it even further. Thanks for reading.
This game is a lot of fun, its not overly complex and is refreshing compared to so many other games today. Some of the planes specs are way off, like the 330 neos are not that big, but still lots of fun.
The only downpart we have is the you need to wait for the flights in real time, it makes it not that fun but overall its a good game.
We were buying 11.99 pack and got scammed. The money did not came through in the game. We keep resetting and nothing came.
This game was ok when we started but then it just got worse as we went on. Planes that you think would be good are horrible for example the 737-800 can only hold 184 but in real life its over 200. Another reason is that the starting money is really low. If you were starting an airline you would not be stuck with a couple million dollars and a 737 or a320 you would have way more than that. Overall we think this game needs a non of work and to level the playing field for new and inexperienced players.
We love how no ads but need more ways to get money.
This is so laggy and we cannot get it back.
Its a great overall game but we cant even get on the game! Im just stuck on a white screen and it lags there for hours.
We like the game but we logged out and now when we log back it we have to start all over we thought for sure it was with our Apple account apparently not, now we wont be playing anymore Ive spent money on that account Im not doing that again.
This is amazing Manager and we hope you are doing better than this team and the approach.
We really like the game of running an airline. We can say that we play it almost all the time. It's like we're running an airline. If possible, we would like to make a small suggestion that you can choose the airline's logo for each plane you buy. For example, the logo of China Southern Airlines or Air Canada, not the logo of the aircraft manufacturer. This may be related to copyright issues, but players can customize the logo of the aircraft airline.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.1.18
- Size: 87.83 MB
- iOS: 15.6 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Xombat ApS
Last updated: 18th November 2025 | Genre: Strategy, Simulation | Developer: Xombat ApS