Airline Architect
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Updated 24 Oct 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperPostmark Digital LLC
CategoryGames
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.4 (22)
Version1.14.1
Age rating4+
First seen by us
23 Oct 2026
23 Oct 2026Installs (est.)1k+ worldwide
Rating
4.4 ★
22 ratings
Measured
Airline Architect on the App Store
App details
App ID
6790569697
Publisher
Postmark Digital LLC
On the store since
Jul 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 18.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase · Game Center
Content rating
4+
Languages
2
EN DE
Size
87 MB
Also listed in
Simulation, Strategy, Entertainment
Airline Architect downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. iPhone downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
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Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.4 ★
22 ratings
Measured
Ratings
22
Measured
About Airline Architect
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
• 469 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 100×, 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
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
• 469 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 100×, 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
Latest updates
1.14.1
SERVICE ALL DUE
A wave of checks no longer means tapping through them one by one. Fleet ▸ Maintenance now has a "Service all due" button that sends every due A check in, plus C and D checks on aircraft without a route. The most urgent go first, and if cash is short it does as many as you can afford. Heavy checks on aircraft that are flying a route still need a cover, and the button tells you how many.
SEE WHAT EACH AIRCRAFT EARNS
Every aircraft in My Fleet now shows its profit per day, lease included. Sort by Profit/day to find your best earners and the ones that need a new route.
Also:
• Cancel a booked check from the Maintenance list. The repair shop keeps a 10% fee and refunds the rest
• "C & D only" now shows just heavy checks, without A checks marked as due
Fixes:
• An aircraft in the shop for a check could be put on a new route, then leave it when the check finished
• Saving the same route plan twice made a duplicate
• Playing a sound could freeze the screen for a few seconds on some devices
