Build an airline,
decade by decade.

Start a fictional carrier in any era from the 1950s on. Pick a hub, fly real historical aircraft, out-think rival airlines, and grow from a single route into a global network: a deep, calm management sim for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Free on the App Store · one-time $4.99 unlock · iPhone, iPad & Mac.

Run the whole airline

A boardroom-grade dashboard tracks cash, profit, load factor and fleet at a glance, with alerts that surface what needs you this week. Quiet competence: you're the executive, not the pilot.

Meridian
12 March 1979 · Year 4 · Hub LHR
Next week ›
CASH
$182M
PROFIT
$6.4M
LOAD
81%
FLEET
18
Monthly profitFinances ›
Needs attention3
LHR–BEY load factor 51%
Below profitability threshold
G-AVMU due for C-check
L-1011 · in 40 days
Pan-Continental orders 747s
Market intelligence

Schedule routes that actually pay

Gravity-based demand models real passenger flows between cities. Set frequencies, cabins and fares, watch the load factor, and keep only the routes that earn their keep across the decade.

Routes
+ Flight
11
PAIRS
96
WEEKLY
79%
AVG LF
All 11Int’l 7Domestic 4By hub
HUB
LHRJFK
London to New York · 5,541 km
7 freq
88% · +$1.2M
HUB
LHRFRA
London to Frankfurt · 654 km
21 freq
76% · +$0.4M
HUB
LHRBOM
London to Bombay · 7,196 km
4 freq
91% · +$0.9M
HUB
LHRBEY
London to Beirut · 3,469 km
3 freq
51% · −$0.1M

187 aircraft, faithfully modelled

Buy or lease from a catalogue of historical airliners, each with real range, capacity, cost and era of service. Configure cabins, schedule maintenance with in-house or specialist MRO, and refit as the jet age arrives.

Fleet
Market ›
18 aircraft · avg utilisation 9.8h/day
Fleet by typeutilisation
L-1011-500 ×488%
707-320 ×680%
727-100 ×564%
A300B2 ×372%
Upcoming deliveries2
747SP
In production · Q3 1980
$31M due
DC-10-30
Ordered · Q1 1981
$28M due

A living world that fights back

AI competitors follow the patterns of real carriers: undercut a route and they'll respond. Each week the in-world Gazette narrates the headlines: oil shocks, new airports, a rival's bold expansion. Watch your network grow on an interactive globe.

Meridian Weekly
THE GAZETTE
Week of 12 March 1979
Revenue
$24.6M
+4.2%
Passengers
86K
+2.1%
On-time
92%
−0.6%
Meridian opens transatlantic service to New York
Crowds gathered at London as the carrier’s first L-1011 departed for Idlewild, marking its boldest expansion since founding. Management credits a fleet-renewal push and a sharper fare strategy.
Fuel up 3%
Rising crude squeezes margins across the industry this quarter.
Rival bets on 747s
Pan-Continental orders six widebodies, eyeing the same Atlantic routes.

Yours, and offline

Airline Executive collects no personal data: no account, no analytics, no tracking. Your save games stay on your device and sync across your Apple devices through your own iCloud. Game Center handles leaderboards and achievements, and the one-time unlock is processed entirely by the App Store.