# Airlines Manager: Plane Tycoon — user reviews > 587 indexed App Store user reviews of Airlines Manager by Playrion, rated 4.60/5 from 21,766 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/airlines-manager-plane-tycoon/id823481079/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/airlines-manager-plane-tycoon/id823481079.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 16,952 · 4★ 3,229 · 3★ 791 · 2★ 253 · 1★ 541 ## What do users think of Airlines Manager? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Realistic and detailed - 🚀 Immersive airline management experience - 👍 Customizable liveries and branding - 👍 Engaging progression and challenges - 👍 Great customer service **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and connectivity issues - 🐛 Glitches with maintenance and financial tracking - 💰 Aggressive monetization through ads and in-app purchases - ⏱️ Slow progression and repetitive gameplay - 🤔 Confusing interface and lack of guidance **Commonly reported bugs** - Incorrect airport and route information - Inconsistent performance across devices - Unexplained loss of progress and saved data - Maintenance and delivery timers not functioning properly **Most requested features** - Ability to lease/rent out aircraft - More customization options for airports and lounges - Seasonal demand fluctuations and weather events - Improved route planning and scheduling tools - Subsidiary/low-cost airline management ## Newest reviews (15 of 587) ### 4/5 — Missing updates *2026-08-06* The game is really good but there a re some missing updates for example Boeing has changed the range of 787-10 and -9 and I don’t see it on the game also the 737-7 MAX, and please check the range of 737-8 MAX it supposed to be something around 7.000 km When this updates are done I will change my evaluation 12months gold member here **Developer response:** Hello, thank you for your comment and your fidelity towards Airlines Manager we really appreciate you. Thank you for pointing out some inconsistencies, we will share them with the team. Have a nice day, Miles, Playrion Team ### 4/5 — Best Airline Tycoon Out There *2026-07-30, version 4.00.0802* Def the best airline game there is and it’s actually not brainrot and requires knowledge. It’s also very fun to see your airline grow. ### 2/5 — Could be great, but unfortunately it’s not. *2026-07-17, version 4.00.0802* So the game is free, but the amount of adds you have to watch is mental, like unreal the same adds over and over. So I signed up to the gold thing and started paying, makes no difference, same amount of adds over and over. So that’s the first negative. When you look through the airline rankings, there are loads of airlines about the same size as mine that are inactive. The reason for this is my airline is making about 75 million a day, I’ve achieved this by watching every add available, signed up to gold and taken out billions in loans! I have now got to the stage that, to set up a new route now costs me 100s of millions, that’s without buying new aircraft to service that route, meaning there is nothing to do other than wait for days (real time) to earn enough to set up a new route. Add this to the fact that I am currently 1.4 billion overdrawn due to how often I have to d check my aircraft. Once I have paid off that overdraft, the next round of d checks will be due on the aircraft currently at age 3, so my airline has stalled. I know it’s possible to get past this point and the bigger airlines make so much money they don’t know what to spend it on, but the reason why there are so many inactive airlines, because it stalls and people give up. The developers have to change the game, 400 staff per new aircraft, ridiculous, my airline is about the size of BA and employs over 50000 people at a cost of 54 million a day! 300 million to buy a new route, ridiculous, a billion to buy a new hub, ridiculous. If they changed the way subsidies worked, so it’s not done on each hub, it’s done over all, it would mean the small airlines are the only ones that get subsidies and the large airlines, don’t get any. Unfortunately that’s not how it works, so I will cancel my gold membership and just like so many other airlines, mine will become another inactive airline. ### 3/5 — Starts good then gameplay becomes repetitive and boring. *2026-07-13, version 4.00.0802* I’ve played this game for about 6 years on and off. It’s a good management game at a basic level. When you start your airline and you have to slowly add planes and routes all whilst managing finance,loans, staff training etc it is fun and addictive. However as your airline gets bigger and richer and you can afford any route and any number of planes the gameplay reduces to a monotonous grind of buy a route, buy planes to fit demand, build schedule, adjust prices and repeat. You eventually complete all the staff training, research etc and frankly there is nothing else to apart from maintenance which is also repetitive and boring. You then have to wait for new planes to become operational in real life before they come into the game so you can’t update your fleet for years if waiting for an aircraft like the new 777x. The ads are taking over but I understand the developers need to generate income but they are tedious. Overall a good game for about a year or so then repetitive gameplay means it’s time to move on. ### 4/5 — Bugs *2026-07-02, version 4.00.0704* 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. ### 3/5 — Livery’s *2026-06-01, version 4.00.0604* I like this game so much but I want the livery system to be more realistic, you should only have to pay for one livery and be able to put it on all your aircraft instead of having to make new ones for each aircraft and paying for them. ### 5/5 — Where’s Airlines Painters *2026-05-18, version 4.00.0604* Was a app that got deleted ### 5/5 — Actually really good *2026-05-14, version 4.00.0604* This game is one of my favourites as it lets me be creative and think of airlines\business. I love it! I also love the fact there are no ads. I highly recommend this game if you want your creativity to be used in a game. 5 stars definitely. ### 3/5 — Lying to you *2026-05-03, version 4.00.0604* The graphics are horrible storming and don’t download ### 2/5 — Keeps starting over *2026-04-25, version 4.00.0604* I have made a account 3 times and it just keeps starting me over not even letting me sigh in Over all good game ### 5/5 — Abandoned but still good *2026-04-18, version 4.00.0604* Loved this since I was younger but now it’s abandoned try to make a new airline with a good name some player that played ages ago still has it ask ti join an alliance no one to accept but still everyone goes to the 2026 one while this one has livery maker and more cool additions so play if you want a fun airline game. ### 5/5 — 옛 유저1 *2026-04-11* 솔직히 너무 재미있습니다!저희 집이 공항 근처라서 그 공항도 사고 인천도 사니 너무 재밌네요!하지만 한가지 단점이 있다면 바로 한국어 번역이 안되기 때문입니다.제가 아무리 영어를 잘해도 몇개의 영어는 몰라서 어떻게 게임을 하는지 몰라서 제가 약 7살 때 실패한적도 있다보니 꼭 한국어 패치가 됬으면 좋겠네요!그리고 솔직히 관계망이 조금 비싸서 부담이 되네요😅그리고 업적 중에서 ‘비행기 12개 얻기’가 있는데 제가 지금 9대가 있어서 돈이….(아시겠죠?)이 세가지의 단점을 빼면 아주 재밌고 또 제가 교통수단 덕후라서 그런지 맨날 40분씩 은 하네요…☺️ [긴글 읽어 주셔서 감사 합니다😘] **Developer response:** 안녕하세요! 자세한 피드백과 칭찬에 진심으로 감사드립니다! 현재 게임에 여러 언어를 추가하는 작업을 진행 중이니 기대해 주세요! 좋은 하루 보내세요. 플레이리온 팀, 마일스 드림. ### 5/5 — It’s a great game as always *2026-04-06* The game has improved a lot in the last 3 years…… returned back last month and now so many planes included….. but many airports are still lacking in the game; there seems to be new scheduling bugs which need to be fixed asap. **Developer response:** Hello, thank you for your feedback. I’ll forward your message to the team so it can be reviewed and maybe it will be added to a later version of the game. Stay tuned so you don’t miss a thing! Have a nice day. Playrion ### 4/5 — Read this! *2026-03-27, version 4.00.0505* 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 that would make it way easier to use. Random, but I love that the Airline Painter is now actually in-game. Couple questions: 1. When I first open the game and it says something along the lines of “Claim Your Daily Gift by logging in at the workshop!” Ok, I put in my email address and make a password, receive the 20million etc etc, but when I press “Go there” absolutely nothing happens. So uh, where is the workshop? 2. How do I sell my liveries? Thank you, HYP3RCRAZE ### 4/5 — Gameplay *2026-03-18, version 4.00.0505* Great game but sometimes it just takes all ur money and I tried to start a new airline by deleting the game but it didn’t do anything and now I can’t play ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — holy ads *2026-08-14, version 4.00.0802* 1 ad = 1000ad ### 1/5 — Absolutely terrible *2026-06-12, version 4.00.0704* I have played other manager games and this is by far the worst. Complex interface, poor tutorials.. pass it by ### 1/5 — Nope *2026-05-30, version 4.00.0604* Can’t log in securely and they want your email address. Not happening! Uninstalled! ### 1/5 — Pay To Win *2026-04-19* O jogo é muito bom porém totalmente pay to win, pra você conseguir muitas coisas precisa de moedas onde precisam ser compradas. Ou por exemplo pra ajustar seu aeroporto precisa ter plano mensal pra esse ajuste. **Developer response:** Olá, obrigado por entrar em contato. Airlines Manager é um jogo gratuito que exige tempo e estratégia. Todas as moedas podem ser obtidas gratuitamente durante eventos ou ao longo do tempo. Atenciosamente, Miles, Equipe Playrion. ### 1/5 — Error with no help *2026-03-21, version 4.00.0505* 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. ### 1/5 — Do not recommend *2026-03-04, version 4.00.0505* Because every thing in the game is paid, they give you welcome £300millions credit and 7x speed up, but after few days game going to real time and if flight take 7hrs you wait 7hrs I uninstalled game. ### 1/5 — More simple *2026-02-22, version 4.00.0505* If this is for 4 and over it needs to be more simple so little Timmy’s can understand it . ### 1/5 — Scam *2026-02-04, version 4.00.0401* Game is a scam. You spend money and then are forced to start over and you lose the coins and the money you spent. ### 1/5 — Paywalls on features that shouldn’t have them, and removing features that shouldn’t be removed *2025-12-29, version 4.00.0301* So, as if removing airlines painter and all non cloud saved liveries wasn’t bad enough, you make the new built-in painter worse in every aspect. You have to pay for more slots, which you didn’t have to do before in the painter app, and plus the new painter is horrible to use and adapt to for users who want to move from airline painter to the new one. Another issue I haven’t brought up as much, although the most important for me is that you lose every livery that you haven’t saved using the cloud. I have sent an email bringing up this issue before, and I didn’t get any feedback on it. I had made at least 40+ liveries dedicated to my current airline, yet they are all gone because of the airlines painter app being completely unusable. It is stupid that this company wouldn’t think of the possibility of people losing their liveries after suddenly removing support for an app that up until recently was the only way you could create liveries. ### 1/5 — I wish things were different *2025-12-22, version 4.00.0202* The things that are missing could give airplanes to your friends . There should be more ways to get money like a week contest on who can move more passengers and like awards for safety like every week or every month. There should be awards given out to the top 100 players in the award. They would bring back where everybody could add their airplane livery to the market the world would be a better place. And also, I noticed this too that AirlinesPainter seems to be gone, disappeared overnight for no reason. And then it reappeared in the game, but with less features way less about 75% less features. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Good *2026-08-11, version 4.00.0802* Good ### 5/5 — Love this game *2026-07-27, version 4.00.0802* This game is so good I definitely recommend it ### 5/5 — Fun *2026-07-25, version 4.00.0802* Realistic ### 5/5 — Fun game, some suggestions *2026-06-20, version 4.00.0704* 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 if the plane got completely destroyed or not (might already be added but I generally mean more emergency options) -Competiton, like either multiplayer kinda like AT2 or like NPC airlines to rival your own routes -options to make some aircraft banned in nations, like how the comac series can’t be flown in the west Irl -more smaller based airports, like for example airstrips or stuff like that Not forcing anything but I think these would make great additions to the game. ### 5/5 — Very good *2026-06-08, version 4.00.0604* 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 ### 5/5 — Nice *2026-06-05, version 4.00.0604* Game is addictive and fun ### 5/5 — Concor *2026-06-02, version 4.00.0604* I love the Concorde that’s it ### 5/5 — Improvement recommendations *2026-05-25, version 4.00.0604* I’m a PTW player, late game this game gets quite repetitive, this game would be so much more in depth if it could include induced demand. ### 5/5 — Great Game *2026-05-18, version 4.00.0604* I have been playing this game on and off for years now, honestly one of my favourites and I always seem to come back to it, however it is sad that the App for Airlines Painter no longer exists as it made it much easier to create liveries, personally the in-game painting is much more difficult, harder to use, not as easy to understand, and overall less features, would love to see the app version come back! ### 5/5 — Manque de MAj *2026-05-18* Bonjour, je joues à ce jeu depuis 2020, mais je fait des vas et viens tous les 2ans, et il n’y a pas d’évolution sur le jeu, une impression qu’il est délaisser par les développeurs, système de banque d’épargne par exemple, la communication avec l’alliance est flou, franchement il ya pas mal de chose a voir, comme aussi sur l’alliance voir depuis combien de temps la personne ne s’est pas connecté, sa aussi sa peut être interessant et innovant à faire, franchement j’aimerai avoir une réponse sur l’évolution du jeu, mis à part acheter des packs que comptez-vous faire avec le jeu et quand ?! Merci en tout cas pour le plaisir partager ! **Developer response:** Bonjour, merci pour votre avis sincère et votre long engagement à nos côtés. Nous avons bien pris connaissances des fonctionnalités que vous aimeriez voir apparaître en jeu, et nous les avons transmises à l'équipe de développement. Si vous souhaitez suivre l'avancée du jeu et échanger avec notre communauté, nous vous invitons à nous rejoindre sur Discord! Bonne journée à vous, Miles, Playrion. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-29.*