Last updated on February 5th, 2026 at 09:30 pm
Airlines Manager: Plane Tycoon – Entertainment Game Review
Airlines Manager: Plane Tycoon is a Entertainment/Strategy/Simulation game from Playrion SARL, first launched in 5th May 2014.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 21,641+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Airlines Manager: Plane Tycoon Stand Out
Build your dream airline and rise to the top in Airlines Manager, the #1 aviation tycoon game of 2026! Experience a deep, realistic simulation driven by a team of passionate aviation enthusiasts who bring you fresh monthly challenges with exciting rewards, and regular updates featuring the latest aircraft – all inspired by real-world aviation news. Join over 15 million players worldwide and start your journey today!
KEY FEATURES
- Access 2700 airports worldwide, and set up strategic flight routes.
- Choose from over 200 airplane models from real-life civil aviation.
- Paint your own aircraft liveries and integrate them to your fleet.
- Monitor your flights in real-time on a dynamic world map.
- Unlock over 500 different types of research in the R&D center.
- Choose from over 200 services to tailor your strategy.
- Trade your planes with other players on the second-hand market.
- Two playing modes: PRO (in real-time) and TYCOON (fast mode).
WHY CHOOSE AIRLINES MANAGER
Airlines Manager delivers one of the most realistic and detailed airline simulation experiences available. With high-quality graphics, a live global flight map, and real-time tracking, you'll feel like you're running a real airline. Our exclusive partnership with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) brings an unmatched level of authenticity and data accuracy to the game.
Stay engaged with regular updates crafted by our passionate team of aviation lovers. From new aircraft and hub expansions to seasonal events and monthly challenges with exciting prizes, everything is inspired by real-world aviation news to keep your experience fresh and exciting.
Whether you're a casual player or a hardcore strategist, Airlines Manager adapts to your style. Choose between simplified or advanced gameplay modes, and enjoy the game in 8 supported languages including English, French, Spanish, and German. Join a vibrant community of over 15 million players worldwide — and connect with fellow aviation fans on our active Discord server!
ABOUT US
We are Playrion, a French gaming studio based in Paris. We are driven by the desire to design free to play mobile games linked to the world of aviation and offering a top notch user experience. We love planes, and anything that’s related to them. Our entire office has been decorated with airport iconography and plane models, including the recent addition of the Concorde from Lego. If you share our passion for the world of aviation, or simply love management games, Airlines Manager is for you!
Join the Community: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/airlines-manager.1087/
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Airlines Manager: Plane Tycoon is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 3rd January 2026
Recent improvements include:
Dear CEO, here is version 4.0.04!
Crash fixes
The Airlines Manager team
Download & Availability
Airlines Manager: Plane Tycoon is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Airlines Manager: Plane Tycoon 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:
So we just want to remind you that we have played other games that we havent played in a long time and it said: this game is free so we have put ADS IN THE GAME! So this game is free right? So DONT ADD ADS.
Fun game nut way too many ads to really do anything. You can buy an AM Gold membership, which is nice, but how about for a few dollars more per month tomhave no ads? Then you could really sit down and enjoy the game. Gets old really quick having to watch an ad every time you try to do something.
Great game only problem we have is that somtimes when we try to open the app it says cannot resolve destination host.
We really enjoy playing Airlines Manager: Plane Tycoon, but we find it difficult to fully enjoy the game because there is no Chinese language support. Many players in China would love to play this game if a Simplified Chinese version were available. Please consider adding Chinese language support in future updates. It would make the game more accessible and enjoyable for a much larger audience. Thank you.
We love the game but please add these small improvements to make it even better. 1. Allow departures in increments of 5 mins instead of 15mins 2. Allow one way flights so planes can stay over night at out stations. 3. Different ground times based on plane size Thank you.
Ive played this game for years. Fun game. Would recommend to anyone that understands different aircraft types and enjoys the idea of building an airline! Although hiding mass pricing behind what is essentially 2 pay walls is pretty disappointing.
Your game is so x10000 good, but here is a thing, all we want to do is just buy the A380,A350, and 787-10s, but we wonder how can you research to get it, and please tell us how you can apply the liverys you made onto your aircraft Thanks if you answer now.
Why are we not able to have one paint job for our fleet? We would like our 777-ER the same color as our 797-9. We noticed the the British and France aircraft have the paint for 99% of the fleets from 777 to 320.
Can you fly the airplanes?please answer us.
At first you could compete but, theyve changed the game to now to be competitive you have to spend real money or your airline with slowly go bankrupt.
Looked fun and we had fun for the first few days but you get to a point where you just sit and wait and you lose interest in the game over the period of a few days. Cant do much except wait until we get more money or spend money in the game. No thanks.
Amazing game, the only thing we would want to see is to research more than 1. All planes can be unlocked which is amazing. And if you know supply and demand you can easily earn money.
We wasnt going to make a review since we rarely do anyways but after finding out that you can make your own liveries and apply them to your aircraft changes our mind. Since Im a simple minded person who likes to create this mechanic was perfect for us and allowed for us to create liveries for aircraft designated to Germany for free by the way.
Bruh this game too goated, might do a vid on this playrion keep the fire going airline manager 2025 is cooked.
This game is really good, but lacks realism. Id like to suggest the devs to add things like: Choosing the time for an aircraft to park between round trips outside a hub (for example at night and return flight to the hub) Airplane stopover at an intermediate airport (for example to refuel) These changes will make the game more interesting.
This is the best airline game Ive ever played ever.
We love his fun this game is. Im just a little sad that Arlines Painter isnt in Samsung anymore.
This game is wonderful and we have been paying for three years. Its very entertaining. But we personally always wanted a little more realism when it comes to the aircraft. Such as losing an aircraft in an air-crash, they can be very rare events that happen once in a while but could be an interesting challenge for players to deal with.
Ok so we were getting a loan, but our 66,666,664 dollars are disappearing this needs to get fixed fast. Ive had it happen at least 12 times. This needs to be fixed fast.
Its needs to have less ads but overall its a good management simulator.
The game has been fun but recently the ads have lacked an X button. So youre just stuck on the ad in a doom loop and you have to close the game with no reward. Its become so prevalent that Im considering quitting the game.
The game freezes every so often.
Siento que se estanc. Y us refiero a la esencia del juego. Retos? Eso no tiene sentido, por otro lado, debera manejarse el trfico semanal y ms real, vuelos con escalas y horarios reales. Si se puede porque hay otro simulador de aerolneas que lo hace.
So like when Im getting cash, Im getting rich. But like when we redeeming cash, our balance keeps not changes at all or just it changes. Like we feel like there should be no cooldown on when redeeming money. Bc we couldve been rich, but we didnt. We feel like its a 45% chance of getting $ and 55% chance of redeeming. After this event, this has to stop. And we mean it. So please, fix this.
We got a notification that our session had ended. This happens all the time, so we just signed in again, but everything was deleted.
We recently encountered a bug/glitch in the game and contacted support. They were very helpful and solved the problem nearly instantly! If we could, Id rate Lucas (The support member) a 10/10! Do recommend game.
Every single other airline tycoon game we've found was so hard to navigate, but this one is so simple and easy to use! Thought it has some in-app purchases, you are completely able to progress as free to play.
It was fun at first, but the number of ads and the grindyness made us stop playing.
We love this game, but we would like to See the A321XLR added to the game in one of the next updates, given that our airline currently has 50 A321LR aircraft in our fleet but it would be nice to get the XLR as well.
We redownloaded the app and we had -100,000,000 whatever dollars, we cant even afford anything in the game.
How can we change the time because it is very off for us it says it is 8:49pm when it is like 3:46 pm devs can you make the time change to what time it actually is for you (the player) thank you it is still an amazing game tho.
If you run out of am coins, the ways to get more are slow or dont exist, and there are kids playing this (like us) who cant spend money by ourselves.
We abandoned our airline for 3 months. And then our fricking profile character changed! We dont even like the 20 year old looking guy! By the way 747sp gear has a glitch.
The game is good.we hope to add Chinese voice.Thank you for your attention.
Love them game. Gives a lot of playability without getting too repetitive. Best in the App Store.
Best game ever we love the packs its about 20 -30 $ for 100k But In a pack it 11$ u get free planes for items for 1st 30 days in max 7 u get max 7 in sp liv max 7 is not out to buy as much as want best.
Im not into giving 5 stars for just anything but this game is definitely worth 4.5/5. The interface is nice and well planned, theres no annoying buy this after the obligatory first one from logging in and generally its more of a new location or new plane for purchase . In the few months we have been playing most have not been $$ to get. Its a slow start game but once you get rolling its fun, and the beginning isnt a huge time waster IF you dont want it to be. However, the more you play the more time you need to spend to keep your airline in top performance. Now for the few tweaks we have to suggest here for the devs if they ever read these: 1) where on Gods green earth is the link to the forums? Seriously it would be nice if we could access more information from other players, your help features, tutorials, or even feedback suggestions without having to hunt and peck through all the individual menus and maybe get the correct minimal information in a pop up that only provides just enough information to make more questions. 2) thanks for the mini games, the maintenance one is frustrating at times because we cant see if or where the free coins are until the nut gets to the bottom, but we spend five minutes or more everyday watching ads to keep our aircraft flying in peak condition for free. The free tickets from the daily wheel of fortune is great even if we rarely get a triple digit and have never hit one for one of the thousands. But they have purchased a few aircraft for us. 3)That being said the slot machine needs some work from both the players side and for your benefit as well. We suggest replacing the free spins on the wheels with AM Coins, at the same pay rate (1 or 3) but less frequently. Since October 1st we have been able to play 100 or more spins a day. After the first week we dont bother getting more than 75 tries because thats all we need. For example last night we wound up having 105 spins, with 78 spins available. After all 105 were completed we still had tickets for 10 more spins. Those coins are critical to the game for speed ups, specialty aircraft and livery purchases. Other than the VERY few that can be won once or twice a week in the maintenance game, the only way to get them is $$ purchases which we dont mind. As an annual subscriber it would be nice to get them as part of the monthly rewards or even a few from the slot machine. 4) Aircraft liveries should have to pass a review to be available for the market, we understand that parents dont want to see Miss November on their kids A380 but once it does the livery should be accessible for aircraft to be sold on the second hand market for a few AM Coins per aircraft. Its the only way players can advertise their liveries for purchase in the store. This will increase the value of the AM Coins and encourage more people to purchase liveries and aircraft in the market. It could also help encourage more designers to use the painter app. We didnt spend much time designing ours but we loved it and use it on the three or four styles that we have, we were a little disgruntled when we tried to sell our first one on the market but couldnt because it had a personal livery on it. Im not going to be designing the German liveries for any of our aircraft but having the vintage WW2 liveries for some of the Allies or even the Japanese liveries would be nice. 5) we once saw a pop up for suggest your aircraft to be added but cant seem to find the button for it any where. Again that goes back to where the *$%# is the forums button. Seriously we would like to see some of the Chinese CORMAC aircraft like the C919.
We love this game! We play it everyday! But Im getting annoyed with the taxes feature. Its a game and we understand you want it to be realistic but the taxes are too much. You make a bunch of money to literally have it all taken by taxes. Real airlines dont even pay that much in taxes with all the loopholes. Something really needs to be done.
These guys just want to force more ads onto you. They arent receptive to feature requests either. The Discord server is full of elitist snobs who are just in a rush to make virtual coins that mean nothing. We had fun building our airline but the community ruined it for us. This game would have been nice if they didnt update it and force ads onto workshop freebies and free economy wallets but now its become an annoyance. What really struck us was the Discord server, we will not associate with a community that is snobbish and rude. Their so called moderator yelled at us for pinging the developers about a feature request and polite complaint and the rules said nothing about not to ping them but the moderator screamed at us for pinging them that if we ping one more time its an instant mute. They cant even figure out how to maintain a discord server. They seem to make rules out of thin air when they arent printed in the rule book. Find another game, because the community attached to this one is frankly intolerable, unless you like snobbish virtual airline folks. This is a plague upon many flight simulation communities. Theres also problems like this in the world of VATSIM etc. Find a good community and stick with it, as for the community around this game? It stinks.
We bought some destinations on the map and it did not let us schedule a flight there wth.
Where is the customization section to change a avatar photo and other aspects of your airline? We have looked all over the app and cannot locate it. Love the game other wise.
We want to see more of the real airport.
Definitely one of the best tycoon games on mobile, its very detailed and structured realistically which we like wish they made it a little easier to buy bigger planes though.
The game is Ok but to expensive.
This game is possible to play without spending significant real cash but it is difficult. Prices increase at a ridiculous rate as the game goes on. This might as well be a casino slot machine. Pity because we could play it for a long time if it didnt feel like it was a shakedown.
We enjoyed it up until it made us restart from one star silver all the way back. Unfortunately we will be uninstalling the app.
We were looking forward to trying this out, it looked fun. But upon loading it presented us with a You MUST accept our privacy policy pop uphmmm. So 8mbegan reading the policy, discovered they collect device ID and emails, and sell the data to Facebook and Google AdWords for remarketing. There is an opt-out procedure, but is not within the app and must be done on those platforms. So ai closed the app and uninstalled. Like we said – looked fun! But Ill never know now.
We sold our children to the trafficking ring of Hyderabad so we can buy AM gold Most worthy decisions of our life Planes = Coins Children = Bankruptcy.
Not a bad game, not often buggy, and it gets regular small updates, but the high amount of ads we need to watch to repair our planes was why we quit playing the first two times.
We enjoy the game, but we do wish there were real life factors involved ( accidents, weather delays, etc) that would help factor the success/failures of flights. We need some more excitement because the game becomes redundant and we say this as a monthly subscription holder.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.00.0401
- Size: 399.20 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, RU, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Playrion SARL
Last updated: 3rd January 2026 | Genre: Entertainment, Strategy | Developer: Playrion SARL