Last updated on December 15th, 2025 at 10:10 pm
Airport Simulator: Plane City – Strategy Game Review
Airport Simulator: Plane City is a Strategy/Simulation game from Playrion SARL, first launched in 12th October 2022.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 8,106+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Airport Simulator: Plane City Stand Out
Welcome to Airport Simulator! Your mission: manage the world’s most iconic airports. From check in to take-offs, every decision is yours. Grow your terminals, manage flights, and keep your passengers and partner airlines happy. Think smart, plan ahead, and join a global community of over 10 million players!
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Take charge of 3 unique locations: each offering distinctive city-based challenges and opportunities. Start from scratch, expand your infrastructure, and make sure it’s ready to handle increasing air traffic.
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Manage both interiors and exteriors: from layout to decoration, you're in charge! From runways and terminals to cafés, gates, and custom buildables, customize every element to ensure your airport runs efficiently and stands out visually.
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Manage airline partnerships: negotiate deals, expand your airline roster, and build trust with airlines to advance through the Wings of Trust Pass, a relationship-powered progression system that reflects your airline loyalty and unlocks exclusive rewards.
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Optimize Passenger Flow and Satisfaction: design seamless passenger experiences from arrival to takeoff. Improve check-ins, reduce wait times, and offer comfort-enhancing services to increase satisfaction.
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Strategize your airport’s operations: manage flight schedules on a 24-hour basis, coordinate plane rotations, and optimize logistics across all terminals. Handle short, medium and long-haul flights with precision.
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Boost popularity and attract more travelers: boost your airport’s popularity by creating welcoming spaces. Add retail outlets, dining areas, and entertainment options. A thriving environment attracts more travelers, increases spending, and elevates your global reputation.
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Grow and personalize your aircraft fleet: use a wide selection of realistic 3D plane models and their liveries, assign them to routes, and fulfill your contractual obligations… but in style! As your influence grows, unlock more advanced aircraft and operational possibilities.
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Immerse yourself in the flow: Airport Simulator isn’t just about strategy—it’s a contemplative experience. Watch beautifully animated aircraft take off and land, as your terminals buzz with life. Fluid gameplay, smooth transitions, and stunning 3D visuals create a calm yet engaging environment.
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, Airport Simulator is for you!
Join the community: https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/games/airport-simulator/about
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Airport Simulator: Plane City is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 6th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Update 2.01.0210 – Christmas is coming !
We’ve prepared everything, and the game is ready to welcome new festivities.
Prepare yourself, because Christmas is coming !
Download & Availability
Airport Simulator: Plane City is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Airport Simulator: Plane City 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:
IPad display problem can't choose some languages.
Good game, we tried to restart the game, but it wouldnt let us. We uninstalled it like it said, but it didnt do anything.
Takes to much time and money. Not much directions. Always trying to get you to buy stuff.
Subject: Feature Request: Implementing Auto-Population for Flight Scheduling and Contracts (Focusing on MENA Region). To the Esteemed Development Team of [Game Name or Project Name], As a player/manager utilizing the airport management interface, we observe that the process of entering contracts and scheduling flights is currently done manually, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive. To improve gameplay depth and make airport management more realistic and efficient, we strongly propose the addition of the following features: 1. Expanded and Localized Major Airline Roster: Regional Focus: Implement and activate major carriers from the Middle East region, such as: EgyptAir, Emirates, Saudia (Saudi Arabian Airlines), Qatar Airways, Etihad Airways, and others. Accurate Scheduling: The automatic scheduling must be roughly consistent with the peak hours and realistic timings for these specific airlines operating at our airport. 2. "Auto-Populate Flight/Contract Scheduler" Button/Feature: Activate a feature that allows the system to generate an organized and precisely timed automatic daily/weekly flight schedule (including arrival/departure times and available gate numbers) immediately upon accepting a contract with a specific airline. The system should be intelligent enough to avoid runway and gate conflicts (time clashes). This feature will shift the focus from tedious manual entry to strategic decision-making and efficient resource management, significantly enriching the airport simulation experience. Thank you for considering this suggestion, which will add substantial value for players in the Middle East and worldwide.
If Language have it we will more happy than now.
How do we restart, redo this game we want to start over this game.
Best simulator Ive played in a while.
The game just keep Telling us no interest connection and didnt let us login again anymore while Ive enough data why is that happening.
We like this game so far but recently facing lots issues where pax gets stuck.
The game is great in all but can you add the B747 and the Airbus a380 because the long haul planes arent to big and it would be cool to se the B747 and the a380.
There is a glitch in the consecutive daily login streak prizes tab. It wont let us claim day 5 nor will it reset. Ive been playing for a few weeks at least. Please fix.
Some passengers have been stuck in the terminal. We hope you to fix it. Also we hope this game launch to PC.
We love this game 100%!! But this new update today doesnt let move the view around to other angles of our airport and so it makes us not want to play it now :(.
The application crashes a lot. We continually keep checking for updates, but there are none available. When you attempt to purchase some thing in the store, the application will crash. Then it continually keeps throwing errors that the service is not available and that we may not be online. Its definitely not the iPad, because every other application works fine, including the Internet.
The first thing we thought of when we saw this was the fact that the whole thing was a bunch.
This game was fun at first, however, since the updates, the game will not load nor open to play. It stays in black screen.
Read it all before investing your time and money This is the best simulator we have ever played so far. We wish we had not spent our money on the additional purchases from the store for a game that has many bugs that should have been fixed but theyre not. *PS: app as well as the phone is up-to-date. 1) we complete our daily login and we dont receive the last calendar Reward for consistent login. This is every single day. 2) we have not received our reward for having five contracts/planes. 3) our cleaning service truck is upgraded and above the plane cleaning requirement on the contract however planes results show very dirty and not cleaned. Example: If our service is upgraded to 250 and the plane contract requires 180 then It should not be a problem but thats not the case. 4) All the passengers and the PAX members board onto the plane prior to departure, but the plane numbers shows 43/48 or 79/82 or 30/198 passengers. Its never accurate. If we restart the game prior to plane departure, then all the passengers numbers match. If we dont restart the game, then the plane the parts and we get a failure. *** also the upgrades on all the services along with the sections to purchase for space are so expensive that you have to spend so much money to get millions. Shops, food, etc doesnt give you enough to upgrade and it doesnt matter how many contracts you have. Its very hard to make enough money to clear space, runway maintenance, check-in, boarding, passport upgrades all of this is very annoying when you are putting so much time. Numbers are so high and expensive that the game is built around spending money to get money to build more rather than make money and upgrade within the game. There are better games that its not built around you having to spend so much extra money to enjoy and be successful.
We wish it was a little less restraining where you could design the layout of the whole airport, we.e. Size and shape of the terminal, location of ramps, aprons, taxiways, and runways etc. But it is a fun game overall if youre looking to run an airport.
The game is great but we just got on after the new update and we cant play at all because of the tutorial that yall just put in. We feel like there should be a button that allows you to get out of the tutorial because we cant play at all anymore. So please get a button where you can get out of the tutorial because we cant play anymore.
It was working and after the update it doesnt.
This game is very fun and very addicting! However, as of late, this game has also been incredibly frustrating due to how frequently it crashes. When you pull it up for the first time of the day, its guaranteed to crash while loading. From then on, youll get about 5-10mins of game play before it crashes again, and that will repeat itself for a bit. Eventually it will get to the point where you get about 30 seconds of game play before it crashes again and thats how itll remain until you get fed up and put it down for awhile. Again, its a really fun game, but if they dont fix this terrible tendency, we wont be playing this game any longer.
What we thought was such a great game, has turned out to be a huge disappointment. DO NOT PURCHASE A NEW HUB. First and foremost, we spent 29.99 (even after meeting the requirements to purchase without spending cash) on another hub and was charged 48.13. Then we go to the new hub and you cannot build anything without in app purchases. You start with $0 and no way to gain income without purchasing. Ive played this game for over a year, maybe 2 and was looking forward to new challenges; however it has become a money guzzling scam.
We love the game but it constantly keeps crashing.
We really like the game but it needs to have an update for a landing strip and a takeoff strip so the planes don't have such a long waiting list.
Love the game but wish there were airport locations in the USA that we could run as well.
How do you get the long haul licenses because we have a long haul plane but we cant get any guide how to get a long haul license.
Its a great game honestly but Ive been trying to expand the taxiway for weeks and we just cant. When is that update coming.
We love the game. This is for the developers, there seems to be a glitch with the luggage cart. It does not deploy it just seats in our garage.
This is a great game. Even better than a lot of these games you have to pay for. Love that it gives you the option of in app purchases and not just pushes them on you. Only question we would have is how can you upgrade the level of the luggage carts.
Nice game overall, but crashes happen occasionally. It takes a long time making the money spent on upgrading ground services and other features, so there isnt much to do once the 5 180-minute free time skips are used. The time skips dont help much either, since they only fast forward 12 days while contracts last 23 in game weeks. Our biggest concern is why the in game currency and any partnership airline cant be used at new airports we unlock. This is really disappointing. We just unlocked our second airport after playing on Faro for a while, and we even bought a couple more bundles to get a head start only to find out we cant use any of all that in game currency we just purchased and all partnerships airline Ive already maxed out can be used at our new airport and now we have to rebuy them with airline coin and it charge again. Plus its already a pay to start game in our opinion, Im sure a lot of other players have that in mind too. Low profit from the start and also mid game unless you put irl money in. Ive already spent somewhat over $100 dollar from the buying bundles and coins for airline partnerships, but with all that the cash flows still slow, low, and never exceeded 10 million. Was going to give it a 5/5 star, but not anymore.
We love this game. Ive been playing it a lot. The graphics are great. There are descriptions of the various types of aircraft used. You dont have to micromanage. The stairs, the fuel trucks, etc. Are sent out automatically. Your job is planning, maintenance, ordering fuel, things like that. The game crashes a lot, and its got a lot of bugs. Lots of restarts. And it takes a bit of real money to get things running well. If youre patient, you can get by with the free to play.
The price isnt clear we bought a few things on this game and we were overcharged a good amount. We reached out to the company and you guess it no response. Other than that its a fun game just know if you buy something you will get charged more than what theyre displaying.
We love this game but we did purchase a package that included the medium haul license and we still dont have it available help us please.
We love this game the ads dont play randomly only when you. Click something like double rewards. This is still our favorite game.
The cabin service, inspection service and fuel stations cannot be moved once placed. Message says, this equipment is not closed. There is no room anywhere to place even the small fuel depot; footprint is too big. What do we do here for these 4 situations.
Im having an issue where we cant add anymore construction workers. We go to the screen and buy more, but they dont show up. We are at a point where cant move forward in the game without more, there are also countless bugs that we have seen just come up in the game. Its a lot of fun, but we cant give it a higher rating till this is taken care of.
Recently having an issue where time wont progress if app is either running in the background or closed. Overall enjoying the game and figuring mechanics out as we go.
Great game. We dont play many mobile games at all so its a good game. Wish there was more like it on the App Store.
The game is very good and durable. Can you add Chinese support in the future? Thank you very much, developer.
After the latest update, the sim doesnt run when youre not in app. You log in where you left off, no time passes so it has made the game much slower.
Game is awesome but alittle dry with certain features like baggage and food interaction. Would be cool to be able to set prices and work more with it. Also we would love to be able to by our own fleet and build a route or contract for it.
But this last update makes the game crash.
The game is fantastic, however with the latest update it crashes at random times. Very unfortunate. We run the game on our iPhone and iPad with the same problem. Do you know when a corrective patch will be issued to fix this problem? Thank you.
We enjoy the game a lot, but we started having issues after the update where the game shuts off when Im in planning. Did not happen before the update.
Daily missions are still unavailable after the update.
We really enjoy playing Airport Simulator, but unfortunately, the game has been crashing on our iPhone and iPad every 23 minutes for the past two weeks. Ive tried deleting and reinstalling it multiple times, but the issue still persists. We hope the developers can release a fix soon, as the game itself is fun and engaging when it works.
The game keeps crash since most recent update, make it unplayable.
No Chinese,Japanese and Korean. You only need to use AI like ChatGPT to translate the game, no need to worried about the mistakes. Let us to understand the game basically. Or just delete these three languages on introductions page.
This game is very addicting and fun if youre a tycoon or even an aviation enthusiast. We think this game is amazing but we also would love for the developers to create multiple airports so the player can expand to different areas around the world. Possibly create partnerships with previous or new airports youve developed, aviation hubs with the airlines etc theres a lot they can add to an already great game. We also think it would be a great idea and we havent had too much experience in the game so far but we think also adding transport hubs for trucks and to be able to control imports/export items coming in from the trucks into the hubs to be shipped out or to arrive at the airports city would be a great idea.
All of a sudden Im having an issue where our contract screen is empty. We cant sign any contracts to go on and plan. Even purchasing an early new contract refresh doesnt work. Force close doesnt work. Issue popped up when we bought our second airport. Game overall is fun! Would just like to figure out why Im having this issue before our airport goes bankrupt from no passengers.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.01.0213
- Size: 385.64 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: AR, NL, EN, FR, DE, JA, JV, KO, PT, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Playrion SARL
Last updated: 6th December 2025 | Genre: Strategy, Simulation | Developer: Playrion SARL