About the Game
AirwaySim is a long-running and highly realistic online airline management simulation. You will create and run your own airline in an online multiplayer environment where your management decisions affect your airline's performance. AirwaySim models decades of aviation history, detailed aircraft performance, and the commercial realities of airline operations.
The game is made for players who enjoy strategy, aviation, and long-term decision-making. If you have ever wondered how airlines are built, how networks are planned, or how competition shapes the market, AirwaySim gives you a clear and hands-on way to experience it.
AirwaySim is not an arcade game, but a deep strategic simulation where every choice has consequences and long-term planning is essential.
Build and Lead Your Airline
Start small and grow your airline through smart planning. Choose your business model, build your fleet, schedule flights, set prices, manage staff, and guide your company through changing market conditions.
AirwaySim rewards consistency, long-term thinking, and players who enjoy developing their strategy step by step, and is a simulation for the true aviation enthusiast.
A Live Multiplayer World
Each AirwaySim airline game world is shared with real players running their own airlines: Every airline CEO competes in the global airline market, and actions like opening routes, adjusting pricing, or expanding fleets influence the environment in real time.
The simulation advances continuously, with 30 minutes of real time equalling one in-game day, keeping the game world always active and moving forward, even when you are offline.
You will compete for passengers, airport slots, aircraft availability, and profitable routes. Alliances offer opportunities for cooperation between players, but real competition is always present. Player decisions shape the market, so every game world develops in its own way as airlines adjust their strategies.
Historical Eras and Themes
AirwaySim offers several concurrent game worlds, each based on a different time period. You can play through the propeller era, the early jet age, or the modern aviation market, each with historically accurate aircraft availability and evolving technologies.
You may join many different game worlds at the same time, each with its own airline, allowing you to experiment with different strategies and build completely different airlines across varying eras.
For those looking for a major commitment, our longest airline game scenarios start in the 1950s and continue through the 2030s, offering more than a year of real-time gameplay and an unmatched strategic challenge.
Fleet and Aircraft Management
AirwaySim includes an extensive aircraft database with nearly all commercial aircraft types ever produced from the 1940s to the modern era. Each aircraft type has authentic performance data, and extensive technical details for added realism.
You will buy or lease aircraft, plan maintenance, adjust seating layouts, and balance your fleet against route needs and operational economics. Selecting the right aircraft at the right time is a core strategic decision that affects your efficiency and long-term profitability.
Passenger Demand and Competition
The simulation has a global airport database and models passenger demand individually for every airport pair, each route having its own demand level, travel patterns, and competitive landscape.
Competition between airlines is a key part of the simulation. Ticket sales on a route respond to your airline's quality, such as pricing and flight schedule, and of course to the actions and services of the competing airlines in the area, so your management decisions and your competition's actions shape your performance.
As your airline grows, you can expand operations from your home base to additional base airports. Expansion follows the real-world aviation rules of the simulated era, allowing you to enter new regions only when regulations and historical events make it possible.
Route Planning and Scheduling
Design and expand your airline's network with detailed scheduling tools. Select which routes to open, choose aircraft for each flight, plan departure and arrival times, set weekly frequencies, and build efficient rotations that keep your fleet productive.
Scheduling is more than picking a route: You will manage runway slot limits at busy airports, work around night curfews, and ensure each aircraft can operate the route within its performance, runway, and range capabilities.
Operational reliability also matters since flight delays and cancellations may occur due to tight schedules, aircraft technical issues, staffing problems, or even weather, all affecting passenger satisfaction and your airline's overall performance.
Finance and Economics
AirwaySim features a detailed financial model simulating real airline economics. You will manage revenue, costs, loans, fuel price volatility, staffing levels, flight on-time performance, and the impact of broader economic trends and various world events on your airline operations.
A wide range of financial reports help you track performance, plan investments, and keep your airline stable through changing market conditions. The result is a genuinely strategic business simulation where long-term planning truly matters.
Cargo Operations
AirwaySim includes air cargo features for players interested in freight operations. You can operate full-cargo aircraft or mixed-use passenger aircraft with belly cargo capacity. Each airport has its own cargo demand levels, and freight moves independently from passenger traffic.
Managing cargo can provide additional revenue alongside passenger services, or you can build a specialised cargo airline focused entirely on freight operations.
Fair and Accessible
AirwaySim runs directly in your web browser with no installation required. All players have access to the same features, and the game contains no advertisements and no pay-to-win elements.
Our Credit system is simple and transparent: you pay only for the game worlds you choose to play.
Try the Free Trial
All new players can try AirwaySim with a fully featured seven-day free demo.
No payment or credit card is required to join. Simply Register and join a game world marked "Free Trial".
Affordable Pricing
AirwaySim is very affordable to play, typically around 3–5 EUR / USD per month depending on your activity.
For full details on Credits and available packages, please visit our Pricing page.
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