Airlines Manager
Airlines Manager offers a detailed airline simulation experience with realistic mechanics, but recent updates have introduced numerous bugs, excessive ads, and frustrating paywalls that hinder gameplay and user satisfaction.
Airlines Manager is a detailed airline management simulator that allows players to build and manage their own airline, including aircraft, routes, and supply/demand. While praised for its depth and realism, recent user reviews highlight significant issues with bugs, frequent ads, and a perceived shift towards a 'pay-to-play' model.
What users like
- Offers a detailed and realistic airline simulation experience, including supply/demand and emergencies.R2R50R53R37
- Allows players to create custom liveries for aircraft, which is a popular feature.R38R10
- Engaging and addictive gameplay for those who enjoy tycoon and management genres.R4R50R52R59
- Not strictly 'pay-to-win' for some players, allowing progress without spending money.R10R68R90
What users complain about
- Numerous bugs and glitches, including profit calculation errors, demand glitches, freezing, and progress loss.R1R11R15R47
- Excessive and intrusive ads, often long and unskippable, frequently causing the app to crash or loop.R17R34R35R74
- Confusing and poor user interface (UI) and lack of comprehensive tutorials.R3R10R81R148
- Perceived shift towards a 'pay-to-play' model with paywalls for features, making free progression difficult.R22R70R75R153
- Lack of Chinese language support, despite significant demand from players.R12R32R33R55
- Issues with account login, progress being reset, or inability to securely log in.R7R9R15R45
- Game becomes very grindy and slow, requiring long waits or spending money to progress.R4R24R82R101
Latest update · v4.00.0802
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
Dear CEO, here is version 4.0.08! Stability optimizations New aircraft in preparation The Airlines Manager team
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Who it's for
Airlines Manager is for players who enjoy deep, realistic airline management simulations and are willing to invest significant time or money into progression R2R53R37. It is suitable for those who appreciate detailed mechanics like supply/demand and aircraft customization R50R38. It is not for players who dislike frequent ads, complex interfaces without extensive tutorials, or a slow, grind-heavy progression model R3R17R74R81.
Evidence note: The recent review sample skews negative (28.5% negative), which contrasts with the high lifetime rating (4.64/5). This suggests a recent decline in user satisfaction due to the issues highlighted, particularly bugs and monetization changes, despite the developer's notes claiming 'stability optimizations'. The demand for Chinese language support is strong and consistent across multiple reviews.
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.
- [R2] Fun game, some suggestions: I love this game, as it actually simulates the details like emergencies and realistic supply/demand. I have some suggestions though. -More Soviet/ Russian aircraft, like how if you are trying to make a Soviet state based airline like Bek air for example it’d be nice to have some more russian airplanes -Detailed emergencies, like showing if the gear or engines failed or
- [R50] A Beautifully Addicting Buggy Mess of a Game: I love this game. I love the attention to detail. Stuff like being able to see your deck configurations (the seats for each class even if just simulated). The flight details of planes while they’re taking off/landing and midair. It is super buggy and broken though. A lot of the math in the financial reporting is blatantly incorrect. The game adv
- [R53] Fun game honestly: This game as an aviator is really fun and enjoyable and really want you to play. It unlike others because you can buy hubs and make your own route. This is a five star game and I would recommend it for any avgeek.
- [R37] Amazing game to learn supply demand: Amazing game, the only thing I 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.
- [R38] Artists dream: I wasn’t going to make a review since I rarely do anyways but after finding out that you can make your own liveries and apply them to your aircraft changes my mind. Since I’m a simple minded person who likes to create this mechanic was perfect for me and allowed for me to create liveries for aircraft designated to Germany for free by the way!
- [R10] Read this!: Ok overall, I quite like this game. It’s fun, pretty fast-paced, and not impossible to accomplish anything in like some other tycoon games. I also really appreciate that it’s not P2W (Pay to win). But, BUT, some of the menus are VERY confusing. You can figure them out by tapping around for a while, but it would be awesome if there was a tutorial or something for every menu, because tha
- [R4] Very good: Aight first I’m not a bot. I just like this game. It’s very good, only thing is it takes a lot of waiting. Like type of game you log in half an hour in evening and half hour in morning and that’s it. But very fun
- [R52] Love it: When playing the game you just feel so relaxed and accomplished
- [R59] Love the game and only game I play!! However I do have a few suggestions: As the title says, this is by far my favorite game on the App Store. I’ve been playing for over 2-3 years and still plenty of things to do in game! One cool idea I though about is being able to interact way more with your affiliations for example customize how many Gates there are, at what time you want the airport to clos
- [R68] Overall good: Love playing it, really fun and does not require you to spend money. Would recommend.
- [R90] Not a terrible game: It’s not a terrible game. Seems like you can progress without having to pay but it looks like there is a subscription service that would make it easier. They used to have a free daily reward in the shop that you didn’t have to watch an ad for but with the recent update it seems to have gone away. Now everything is behind an ad or pay to play. Maybe I’m missing it but I haven’t
- [R1] Bugs: Every once in a while I’ll check in and just have zero profit made on a route I’ve had since the start or my demand amount glitches and has it as if I have no planes on the route it’s prevents me from knowing if anything is being ran properly and really ruins the experience.
- [R11] Error with no help: In the middle of a limited time event there is an error preventing me from collecting rewards. On top of this there is no way to get help. This after paying lots of money on content.
- [R15] Scam: Game is a scam. You spend money and then are forced to start over and you lose the coins and the money you spent.
- [R47] Huge bug: Ok so I was getting a loan, but my 66,666,664 dollars are disappearing this needs to get fixed fast. I’ve had it happen at least 12 times. This needs to be fixed fast
- [R17] Needs no ads option: 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.
- [R34] Too many ads: It’s needs to have less ads but overall it’s a good management simulator
- [R35] Fun but aggravating: The game has been fun but recently the ads have lacked an “X” button. So you’re just stuck on the ad in a doom loop and you have to close the game with no reward. It’s become so prevalent that I’m considering quitting the game.
- [R74] Ads galore: This was a good game. You only watched ads to gain rewards. Now ads pop up constantly. You spend more time watching ads than playing the game. Do not waste your time. This game has been destroyed with ads.
- [R3] Absolutely terrible: I have played other manager games and this is by far the worst. Complex interface, poor tutorials.. pass it by
- [R81] I like it but: Way too confusing.
- [R148] I Don’t Know What I’m Doing: The tutorial is short but does well to try and explain but further from there, I DO NOT know what I am doing. I’m confused and when I think I’m doing one thing, something else happens. I do love how intricate and detailed it is. But I am lost in all the mechanics and there isn’t really a tutorial to explain or help me figure out how to be more successful.
- [R22] It’s all about the money now: At first you could compete but, they’ve changed the game to now to be competitive you have to spend real money or your airline with slowly go bankrupt
- [R70] Pay to play: Interesting concept, but there’s no way to play for over 15 minutes without watching numerous ads and paying real money. I will be deleting this game.
- [R75] Greedy game: My son loves this game however we’ve had to stop him from playing it because it’s turning into a complete money pit. In order to run your airline successfully, you’re constantly being asked to pay more money. There’s no way to just earn virtual money within the game. And even after paying $10 at a time, you’re forced to sit and watch ads. We will be deleting this app and moving on to
- [R153] Starts off fun….: This game starts off pretty fun and moves quickly. After a few weeks prices get so expensive you can’t really do anything for days unless you receive a new aircraft as a gift or take out another loan. Clearly it’s aimed at getting people to pay for more money/tickets. Not the best for someone who likes to play free.
- [R12] Waiting for 10 years still without Chinese: Chinese!please Chinese!thanks a lot! We need Chinese from China fans
- [R32] Please Add Chinese Language Support: I really enjoy playing Airlines Manager: Plane Tycoon, but I 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 enj
- [R33] No Chinese: There's no Chinese. · translated
- [R55] Important: It would be better if Chinese could be added.
- [R7] Nope: Can’t log in securely and they want your email address. Not happening! Uninstalled!
- [R9] Keeps starting over: I have made a account 3 times and it just keeps starting me over not even letting me sigh in Over all good game
- [R45] Deleted 2 years of progress: I got a notification that my session had ended. this happens all the time, so I just signed in again, but everything was deleted
- [R24] Eh. Fun for a little bit then waiting a lot: Looked fun and I 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. Can’t do much except wait until I get more money or spend money in the game. No thanks.
- [R82] The game is ok I guess: Ok so for some reason my last airline was really good like 27.920 place in ranking but with my new airline it says 38.666 so I’m asking how and why am I stuck in those spots and also this game is slow but addictive but the thing that really ticks me off is route prices like really is impossible for me to get a new route when I was saving money that’s why I restarted once so
- [R101] My experience after 4 years: Welll…it’s been a long time since I’ve played,but it is very hard to just get a few aircraft,hubs,routes…yeah.
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store