# Airline Architect

> Build your airline empire

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6790569697](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6790569697)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6790569697`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Postmark Digital LLC
- **Category:** Simulation
- **Rating:** 4.10 / 5 (8 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.10
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-15
- **First published:** 2026-07-28
- **Size:** 83 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-22
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/airline-architect/id6790569697)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://spikeatone.github.io/airline-architect/privacy.html](https://spikeatone.github.io/airline-architect/privacy.html)

## Description

Build a global airline from one plane and $20M. Match the right jet to the right market, run the ops, and rule the skies.

You start with $20 million and an empty hangar. Where you take it is up to you.

Airline Architect is a deep, realistic airline-management sim. Buy or lease your fleet, open routes across a living world of real airports, hire crews, and grow a one-plane startup into a global carrier, all while the simulation never pauses.

MATCH THE RIGHT AIRCRAFT TO THE RIGHT MARKET
A genuine passenger-demand model makes route selection the whole game — a big jet on a thin route flies half-empty, and a small one leaves money on the table. Thirty-plus real-world aircraft, from short-field turboprops to the largest widebodies, each with real range, capacity, and economics.

RUN A REAL OPERATION
• Own your fleet — buy new, lease, or hunt the used-aircraft market. Every airframe ages, and old metal costs more to keep flying.
• Crews follow real duty and rest limits — one crew can't fly forever, so staffing is a genuine decision.
• Weather, mechanical failures, and crew shortages surface as live choices you resolve while every other aircraft keeps flying. The clock never stops.

GO DEEP, NOT JUST WIDE
• Establish hubs and build airport clubs to fortify a city, hold off competitors, and build loyalty — with a live payback view so you know if it's working.
• Fund expansion with loans — or take your airline public, with a live share price, activist investors, and a board that can vote you out.
• Reached the top? Scout rival carriers and acquire them — then survive the messy integration.

A WORLD THAT FEELS ALIVE
• 380+ real airports across the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific — including exotic island strips only the right aircraft can reach.
• Real seasons — hurricane season, winter storms, and monsoon shape where and when disruptions strike.
• A day/night line sweeps across the map, and real airport night curfews close cities to late departures — a real cost of flying there.
• Rival carriers contest your most profitable routes and fly fleets true to the real world.

Speed time up to 25×, watch the revenue roll in, and keep the whole network flying.

Build the sky.

LEGAL
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://spikeatone.github.io/airline-architect/privacy.html

## Rankings

- #385,330 — Overall
- #61 — airline

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