Airline Commander
Airline Commander offers realistic flight simulation and engaging gameplay, but frequent crashes, excessive ads, and a 'pay-to-win' progression system significantly detract from the user experience, despite recent developer claims of improvements.
Airline Commander is a flight simulator praised for its realistic graphics and engaging flight mechanics. However, recent reviews highlight significant issues with frequent app crashes, an overwhelming number of ads, and a progression system that heavily favors in-app purchases, leading to frustration among many long-term players.
What users like
What users complain about
- Frequent app crashes, especially during critical moments like take-off, landing, or starting activities, contradicting developer claims of smoother operationR2R8R11R43
- Excessive and intrusive ads that interrupt gameplay, often long and unskippable, making the game unplayable for someR12R16R17R20
- Progression is heavily 'pay-to-win', requiring significant spending or extensive grinding to unlock planes and licensesR3R15R127R140
- Users report losing game progress and data, sometimes after updates, with poor support responseR6R7R18R33
- Some users get stuck on the daily check-in screen, preventing them from playing the gameR13R14
- Difficulty earning in-game currency, leading to long waits or forced ad viewing to continue playingR22R74R199R305
Latest update · v2.7.8
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
What’s new in Airline Commander? • Extended Daily Check-In: More rewards and longer streaks added to the daily login! • Improvements have been made to enhance the overall gameplay experience. • Minor fixes applied to ensure smoother operation across all devices. Wishing you safe travels and smooth landings, Commanders!
Recurring themes
Who it's for
This game is for aviation enthusiasts who enjoy realistic flight simulators and are willing to either tolerate frequent ads and slow progression, or spend money on in-app purchases R30R82R106. It is not for players who expect a seamless, ad-free experience or who are unwilling to invest significant time or money to progress R16R17R20.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew heavily negative, focusing on crashes, ads, and monetization. While the lifetime rating is high, the recent sentiment indicates a significant decline in user satisfaction, suggesting that the current state of the game is problematic despite its historical appeal.
Frequently asked
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What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R25] Fun best plane game ever but would be give if stuff changed: The game is amazing the landing system and situations take offs is really realistic the simulation flight exams are amazing getting new planes too but really need to change a bug in the events where you tap to rent a plane and it won’t let you rent it you don’t rent it you just stay on the menu for events
- [R30] Okay game: The first thing I want to say right away is that the service you will receive for bugs and issues is incredibly kind and patient. With that aside this game does make you watch thousands of adds in your career of playing this game. The shop I very confusing (It uses a lot of capitalism). But besides the adds this game is incredibly well built with incredible graphics for mobile users. It
- [R60] Good: Super good graphics and gameplay so much realism very recommended
- [R113] Cool game: Very realistic game · translated
- [R19] Review: I love that it’s just so entertaining and fun
- [R32] 😯😯😯: This game is the next generation flight simulator it’s so addictive I play 4 hours a day (I know 5 stars isn’t enough it deserves 20 stars 🤩)
- [R82] 5stars: I love this game because I love planes and this is the perfect game for a avgeek.
- [R106] Airplane pilot: Do you like this game? Teaches me how to be a real pilot and I really wanna be a pilot when I grow up now because this is so much fun and the reason why I say that is because if I want to be a pilot, then I actually have to practice and this is actually the best game to practice.
- [R114] Best Game Ever!!!!!!!!! 😊😊😊😊😊🤩🤩🤩🤩: I love this game so much because you can fly airplanes and earn money and flight points and you can also you do daily challenges and free flights you can customize your plane and do licenses and great news they added new planes and a new rank called Airline Commander + and the new airplanes are the Learjet 35A and the Boeing 777-300ER this game is Wonderful and D
- [R112] Airplane: I wish you had new airplanes to the game
- [R2] Crashing Overheating: Phone overheating and crashing will update review on next update, love the game feel like I can land a plan in real life now.
- [R8] Fix it or I will not play: The game crashes every time I land or take off. I can’t even do a simple landing with out it crashing. I keep having to reload the game every time and I don’t like it. If you don’t fix the game I will never play again.
- [R11] 10th gen IPad is a no go: This game crashes every single time I try to play, and I don’t know about you, but I’m not gonna buy a fancy new IPad just to play this game - it’s totally not worth the frustration. While I did get to enjoy it once or twice, my overall message to players with 10th gen IPads is don’t get it. For those of you with newer IPads, have fun!
- [R43] WHY?: Every single time I try to start an activity, (on iPadOS 26.4.2) the game crashes EVERY SINGLE TIME. Why? Because you guys don’t care for ur customers and only the money. Why not make it high-quality like RFS? Because you guys are ‘busy’ with RFS. There’s airline commander too, right? Or at least make updates that actually help the experience and listen to your customers. Also, being busy wi
- [R12] Greed: They crammed in so many ads that they defeated themselves; now it's impossible to enter the game. · translated
- [R16] Tooo many ads and you have to pay to use!: There are way too many ads and it’s too hard to get any money. The game keeps crashing too. When I’m flying and I’m ready to get my new plane, I have to buy $8 worth of the currency just to get the license of a tiny plane. The ads on the other hand, tooooooo many! It’s like here’s an ad and now that its done here’s another and another and another. IF YOU
- [R17] Too many ads: Not worth playing without premium. The ads are the most annoying ones that take multiple clicks to get out of, and come up way too frequently. I haven’t even figured out if I like the game enough to buy it, because the ads made me remove the game.
- [R20] Riddled with ads: Used to be good but they changed everything and added a battle pass and you get an ad every 60 seconds and it keeps giving you “limited time offers” so that you can spend money on it
- [R3] Too much pay to win: I’ve been playing game daily for 6 years and am still far from the top. Can we please get more credits per flight for those of us that don’t have thousands to spend on a phone game? Thanks! Great game. Great programming. But set up for paying players mainly.
- [R15] Better upgrades: I shouldn’t have to pay hundreds of dollars to get a upgrade when I been playing this game for years stop playing with the money and let me get some good cash routs so I can fly some bigger planes
- [R127] Pay to win: This Game and Graphics is Cool and all but it’s literally pay to win They only give you one plane and 2 missions and the rest you literally can’t do nothing else unless you buy more credits 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
- [R140] It’s too grind and P2W focused: It’s a good game but there are lots of bugs glitches and other annoying things and it is also very pay to win and grind focused game
- [R6] All data lost: I opened the game today and there was an error message that read that all my data was lost, 3 years of slow progress all gone. Now I have to start over and who knows how long it’ll take. Disappointed.
- [R7] waste of time: i closed the game with my account on level 4 with six planes; this is months of time put into this. just went to play the game again, my progress is all deleted. not worth it, you also can not fly much.
- [R18] A fun game for my son & I - till the last update: We have been playing this game for a few days. All has been going well, and then yesterday, there was an update and all our game data was lost. Game Center keeps saying there is a synchronization error and crashes the game. Update 6/8/2026 I’ve been facing bugs in the software for over a week, on both this and their other game. Playing on a 16pr
- [R33] Do not Update!!!: I just updated this morning and I was a commander before the update. The update reset all my progress!!!! This is not the first time it has happened and the developers never contacted me. 869 days down the tubes…. Again… that is almost 3 years!! Here we are again. Another 4 years (now 2026) and can’t connect to server. I’m betting it crashes completely again and have to star
- [R13] Daily check-ins are broken: They implemented daily check ins a while ago and then stopped, and have since started again. Every time open the app now I get stuck on a daily check in screen and can’t play. 10/10.
- [R14] Stuck on daily reward screen: I have been playing on and off for 8 years and it’s a good game. The main issue is today I loaded in and immediately got stuck in the daily rewards screen with no X button. I restarted the game but the same thing happened. Today i tried again and it was the same thing. I can’t play the game anymore and it’s really annoying. Devs please fix this.
- [R22] Ads and purchases: Game has way too many ads. And if you don’t want to pay it will make you wait several hours to days between playing because there’s no money and no playable routes
- [R74] Way to hard to get money: I’m broke can’t make money while everything is 10k while I only have 3k, but still good game recommend if u got money to spend 👍
- [R199] Great but has some issues: The actual gameplay is great. I have issues with the money system and license mechanics because you can get stuck with nothing to do because you’ve done your flights and now can’t afford anything. I don’t know if I’m missing something but I’ve never seen a great game so determined to keep you from playing it.
- [R305] Good game but…: This game is amazing and all but it’s so hard to get a good amount of money I have to do live challenges to actually get a good amount of money so I could buy the next plane,more stuff etc AND it has tons of bugs like sometimes Im doing a perfect landing then it glitches then crashes ALSO once I was landing then it just randomly quits the game for me AND ALSO there are tons of ads
- [R4] No: I didn’t even get to play the game. It kept bringing me to the home screen and then loading me it kept happening and I tried to restart my phone a log out of the app. Nothing worked. If you don’t want to waste your time, don’t get this game.
- [R27] Well: So i downloaded this game and what annoys me is like why do i have to do the same quests over and over for one part of getting a certain license like just have to were you download it the plane you get is a crj-900 and by flight hours or minutes you get a higher rank and get better planes or but individually buy planes or buy all planes in a package
- [R10] How to sync Facebook account: How to sync Facebook account · translated
- [R9] Good …… but the jobs: I’ve been playing for a while and I wish I could do like the full on route with no skipping from take off to landing I just want it to be all of the route like no skipping at all
- [R26] Planes on runway: Please stop leaving planes on the runway when landing. My plane just goes right through them anyway. Unless you implement some kind of TOGA protocol or something.
- [R47] Full of ads: Completely ruined by ads you can’t bypass.
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store