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AirTycoon 3 – Roleplaying Game Review
AirTycoon 3 is a Roleplaying/Simulation game from TRADEGAME Lab Inc., first launched in 30th March 2014.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 31+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes AirTycoon 3 Stand Out
Welcome to AirTycoon 3!
Authentic turn based airline management simulation single player game based on
'Air Tycoon Online' which is being loved by world wide players.
Build and manage worldwide airline with detailed statistic management support!
Now, passengers in the world are ready to on board to your airline!
[GAME FEATURES]
- Customized turn based game
- Play and compete with max 24 AI players
- Various game setting
- Include 138 real airplane models and 460 airports world wide
- Diversified airport and route management
- Upgradable airplanes and airports
- Sell used airplanes
- Detailed and various type of map
- Management of passenger and cargo routes
- Historical real time background
- No internet connection needed
[Game Tips for Beginners]
- Keep lower than 30% of lease planes.
- Open a new route at high business/tour level and less(or no) competitive cities.
- Keep maximize advertisement and service investment.
- Keep lower level of salary as they are satisfied.
- Keep the airplane operating at maximum.
- Make schedules as the same as 'Available schedule by Planes'.
- Adjust airfares always.
- Raise the fare when the occupancy is 100%.
- Down the fare when the occupancy is lower than 70%
- Do not be obsessed on your existing routes.
- Close the route resolutely which has many competitors and do not earn money.
- Find a new undeveloped golden route constantly.
- Minimize Cost
- Minimize office, counters
- Minimize unused slots
- Use fuel tank and buy fuel by wholesale
- Maximize profit
- Run a maintenance depot and lounge on your hub airports (not all airports).
You can save 30% of maintenance cost and increase the business and first class passengers
(An airport having many routes is a hub airport.)
- Run a maintenance depot and lounge on your hub airports (not all airports).
[Feel free contact us!]
- Bug report in AirTycoon 3
- Email : [email protected]
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This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, AirTycoon 3 is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 30th April 2016
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
New Aircraft models are arrived
- DC-9-21
- DC-10-40
- A330-800
- A330-900
Several aircrafts' max payload and price has been changed
- A321-200, A320neo, A330-200, A330-300, A340-200, A340-300, A340-500, A340-600, A350-800, A350-900, A350-1000, A380, B767-200, B787-8, B787-9, B787-3, and related cargo versions.
UI Improvement
Download & Availability
AirTycoon 3 is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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:
Perfect game for the people like plane like us.
This is a amazing game. We totally recommend this amazing game.
Its a good game the thing is when we buy and 747 or and a380 theres no second floor plan its just one so if you want really high quality we do not suggest.
We love this game and almost everything about it. The only issue is purchasing the in game credits. The transaction never goes through, making it pretty difficult to grow your company. That's our only complaint, and we wish a simple update would fix it.
Biggest issue is in game credit purchasing!!! FAIR WARNING: Do not buy this app until they have solved for that problem, and have reported back on the issue. Someone ought to address in game credit purchases, and the problems associated with "in game receipt" transactions. It is quite difficult to get an airline going without an initial bump of credits as you expand your hub and spoke system. What a shame too because beyond that, this is a solid airline management game, great for aircraft/airline enthusiasts! Quite a selection of aircraft variants and manufacturers! One suggestion, there are a good selection of cities, however, certain areas seriously need some review, more cities are needed e.g. Central North America, Eastern Europe/Russia.
You cant purchase competitors and it drives us crazy. We know you could in one of these games and we finally saved up enough cash to start buying people out and there is no option this one feature would make this game nearly perfect as an airline simulator.
After the last update the game will not load.
We purchased this game and bought 2 in app packs… They took our money but never gave our in app money! Do not buy it.
This is a great game it's so realistic we like all the options you get to customize everything we love all the airports and planes it's such a great game but it has 2 flaws one if you have in sufficient wifi it will crash but that can be expected by a lot of games and two they have to check there airports apparently Belfast Is in Ukraine despite that it is the U.K. But that's small aside from that a few little things add more airports, right now you only have airports that can take all planes up to an A380 make the airport levels so when you have a level 1 airport they can only take smaller planes but when an airport is like level 4 or 5 they can take all planes just a few flaws and a few suggestions thx a great app overall so addicting.
Play it all the time in our iPod 5 it's awesome but it'll be better if you add more planes and airports like for example you can add Rafael Hernandez Airport in Aguadilla(BQN) and Orlando/Sanford Int'l Airport in Sanford,FL(SFB) more planes and renovation like it be awesome if you had a 737-800 and be able to have the option of winglets or split scimitar or even engine options. That's all we have to say!! Oh and also this game is really addictive lol.
We love this game. However, having to buy counters and slots really makes the game so much more confusing and takes so much more work. Other than that, we love it! Also, don't have the game end at 2030.
We would love it if we could charge our passengers for bags, and drinks instead of having to pay for their drinks. "like a low cost model airline".
The Game is really good, the best one available for devices. 1. We'd REALLY like to see the old feature from 2 where you can upload your own emblem for your airline. 2. Also it'd be a lot better if the AI was balanced in competition. If you get too far ahead their value will begin doubling, to keep pace with yours based on nothing they have. Keep the updates coming.
The game ends at 2030 right when you are getting on a roll. This game would be worth five stars if they had an open free play with no end.
The AirTycoon series has always been enjoyable for casual play, and AT3 is no exception. The addition of slots, counters and offices is burdensome, however, especially since there are no caps on any of them. The multitude of options bogs the game down somewhat – AT2 had a much cleaner and intuitive interface. That the game ends outright at 2030 is the game-killer. Unlimited play should be an option.
Ok so we are a HUGE fan of air tycoon 2 but then in 3 you guys added slots at airports and you have to request slots and other stuff, what we are trying to say is that air tycoon is better. For Air Tycoon 4 we would love to see many more airports such as burlington intl, Albany, Portland also please take out having to request slots and ticket counters, it is just annoying.
Great game but please add more aircraft. And please add the split scimitar for 737s.
It takes 2 hours to skip a turn, make it 7 minutes. That's a perfect amount of time.
Great game we would like to see more design freedom with the air craft and more air craft.
We are proud to have been a fan of Trade Game lab since 2010. And all their games never fail to impress us, we have been waiting for over 2 years for this and it's finally here! This is basically the same exact thing as AirTycoon online except offline (eg. Same planes, airports! And other options.) we've been playing on our iPad 4th generation with iOS 7.1 without any problems and it hasn't crashed once, there is one while painting planes sometimes but it's easily avoidable. Otherwise we've spent tons of hours playing this game, it's very addicting. This game is pretty realistic though and we recommend starting off with Air Tycoon 2 and them move up. To us though the game is just fine, there is pretty much every plane you can think of and a lot of cities.please add the other A320Neos planes doh (eg. A321neo) though! Please fix these bugs and it'll be perfect. Also change the logos back please! This also works on our iphone 4S with iOS 6 but we never use it.
This game is amazing, fun, easy to get absorbed in and addictive. We spend hours on this game and we highly recommend it.
The game is great but please bring back the ability to buy competing airlines. Also, a setting to make all airlines be cargo only (or passenger only) would be cool.
Very nice game except for the fact that you guys have the Columbus airport as Rickenbacker International instead of Port Columbus International (KCMH). The big airliners use Port Columbus International and Rickenbacker is used for Air Force and small small airliners. Please fix this.
Fun!! Make this game like the KLM one.
Fun game, but bringing back the ability to buy competing airlines would be great. We would also like it to be time-based rather than turn-based.
Great game, but get rid if the slots. Not all airports have slots in real life, only a few do. And please add NW Arkansas (XNA) And Fokker aircraft.
Our game is loading just fine unlike all the other reviews but please add a better plane design system because most planes in reality are completely white and the tail is covered with their logo and a color. So make it so you can choose different parts of the plane to be a color just not the main plane.
Great Game But Add Austin Bergstorm Int'l Airport (AUS) Which Is In Austin Texas USA.
Every time we exit the app it crashes and won't let us back in, the planes are good though.
The game Is really fun and we enjoy it but it needs a lot work. First, the game does not properly save so that when we exit the game and return we would have to redo the last several turns again. That is very frustrating and annoying. Also they got rid of the loan feature that the 2nd version had. They should bring it back because business in the real world depends on loans.
Our biggest problem is the app is really slow and sometimes kicks us off and sends us back to our home screen. We liked the format for air tycoon 2 better. The satellite image and straight lines for routes is wired. We love that it has so many airports. Makes regional flying doable. It's cool that you can create a paint job, but the logos are strange and there isn't an option to upload your own. It's ok but not worth the money.
Pros: 1. AT3 map is a lot better than AT2 2. More Planes 3. More Stats Cons: 1. No longer can buy out competition. (Ruins the game for us) we will just go back to AT2.
This game has a lot of cool features, but needs work. A good idea, like suggested before, is to combine versions 2 and 3 to make a version 4. Too big negatives with this version are that the game ends after a certain time period and you cannot buy out your competitors like you can in previous versions.
This game is so good but there is a problem with it, it always crashes and never let's us play on our ipod 4g please fix it we beg.
We really want to play this game but we keeps crashing.
This game could easily be the best game in this system. To be honest even though the game is supposedly better than Air Tycoon 2.It may not have what this game has but it's much simpler and more fun as this game and more fun as it has no finish. This game looked promising at first but we would suggest that work for Air Tycoon 4 should begin now with much improvement including fusing both air tycoons 2 and 3 and make the next one 3D. Before buying this game consider it twice but we would say we feel half ripped-off and half that it was worth it.
Since new iOS this app is unstable. Please update it.
Good thinking, strategy game! However, if you play with a high volume of routes this game will crash! Don't know if it runs out of memory, but we close all running apps, and clear cache, but it will still crash.
We love this game, but we cant pass the load screen! On ipad 2 Please fix it! And also please add feature that can cloud download, so we can continue our game on our ipad over our iphone:) thanks:).
Game keeps crashing, can't open app.
Just got this game for our iPod 4th generation and the app keeps crashing before we can even make a profile slot. We've played Air Tycoon Online, but we wanted to check out Air Tycoon 3 please fix this bug but anyways keep up the good work.
Fun game, but not worth the three dollars. None of our work saves properly. When we exit the app. It puts us back like 3 or 4 months, forcing us to do the work all over again, but your money goes as if your work is still there. You are basically losing coins by exiting. Not worth it unless the problem is fixed.
We like the game but as others said it doesn't load past screens. ALSO now it doesn't let us load. The game quits every time we click load.
Little fun…the old ones were a little more simple.
We love the air tycoon series, but this game always crashes for us. We're on the latest iOS version and the game crashes at the loading screen. If the publishers fixed the crashing problems than this would be the best game on the Appstore.
Previous versions of game were better only because they were simpler.
Although this game is designed for 6.0.0 or better, it is crashing horribly often on our version 6.1 iPod. We have restarted our iPod and tried navigating the game slowly. However, it is to no avail. We have yet to even purchase a plane, let alone advance forward a turn in the game. Over half of the time it crashed in the main menu. It was a waste of our $3. Buyer beware.
So difficult to succeed compare to other airlines! Why!!! They have millions of connections just through years but ours is just a lame.
We have never played the game. We have waited eight months for them to fix the problems with iPods. It has been update after update, and yet they do nothing. We have emailed them many times, but without a response. Does anybody know how to get a refund? If you have an iPod, DO NOT BUY.
The app crashes constantly,every time we go into it.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3.0
- Size: 107.48 MB
- iOS: 6.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [TRADEGAME Lab Inc.]()
Last updated: 30th April 2016 | Genre: Roleplaying, Simulation | Developer: TRADEGAME Lab Inc.