# The Airline Simulator — user reviews > 1,243 indexed App Store user reviews of The Airline Simulator by HyungMoon Ko, rated 4.70/5 from 844 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-airline-simulator/id6741754157/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-airline-simulator/id6741754157.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 714 · 4★ 79 · 3★ 20 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 25 ## What do users think of The Airline Simulator? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - ✅ Engaging airline management mechanics with realistic economic decisions - ✅ Great variety of aircraft models to choose from - ✅ Free-to-play model makes the game accessible - ✅ Strong potential to become the best airline simulation game **Cons** - 🔹 Limited airline competition and alliances - 🔹 Lack of airport upgrades and terminal customization - 🔹 Absence of real-world airline challenges like delays and maintenance - 🔹 Unrealistic aircraft unlocking system **Commonly reported bugs** - Game crashes when trying to buy planes - Profit claiming issue where only $743 is added instead of $743K **Most requested features** - Competitive airline market and alliances - Airport and terminal upgrades - Realistic airline operations and challenges - Advanced aircraft customization and fleet management - Improved route scheduling and revenue optimization - Enhanced branding and customization options - Realistic aircraft unlocking system ## Newest reviews (19 of 1,243) ### 4/5 — Aircraft *2026-08-29, version 1.29.3* The games great but something’s missing… I know it’s a lot of work but it would be greatly appreciated by the whole community if you added more aircraft variants and aircraft themself like the 727,a300,a310 and variants of existing aircraft like 747-300,737-400,a340-500 etc ### 4/5 — Almost there… *2026-08-27, version 1.29.3* Great game, some questionable ui and the flight times are far too short for some long haul flights but a good game to pass a few mins each day ### 3/5 — Idk *2026-08-24, version 1.29.2* It’s a pretty good game but I think there’s something off with the profit because when you try to claim for example 300K it drastically reduces that amount ### 5/5 — the best *2026-08-23, version 1.29.2* this sim on fire 🔥 ### 5/5 — Not bad *2026-08-23, version 1.29.2* I’ve been looking for a different airline management game for awhile this one is definitely pleasing. Imma give it five stars. Love the livery customization it’s not like any other I’ve seen. I’d love to see some more features in the future. Better hub management like slots maybe or expansions, more aircraft options maybe some older airliners that we even still see today, just overall some more management features the game feels to easy. Only issue I’ve seen is when having multiple airlines and switching back and forth it affects your total airlines balance. Not cool. Other than that loving the game. ### 5/5 — Good game *2026-08-22, version 1.29.2* In my opinion the game is good but please add more aircraft and that’s it ### 5/5 — Great quality literally no ads *2026-08-22, version 1.29.2* Please never put ads into this game. This game is such a good quality product and ads would ruin it. Amazing game and is so fun to play. ### 5/5 — The best!!! *2026-08-22, version 1.29.2* Love this game, the best there is. Hopefully soon we can have aspects like Cargo jets/Routes, aircraft Maintenance scenarios. Keep the updates coming ### 5/5 — Good game but a little suggestion *2026-08-22, version 1.29.2* I’m not a English speaker so I can’t play the game easily but to know what do these words mean first. ### 5/5 — recommended 100% *2026-08-21, version 1.29.2* love this game, super detailed but one thing is that I wish getting money was a little bit easier and quicker but in general it’s an awesome game I would defo recommend ### 5/5 — Pretty good game *2026-08-20, version 1.29.2* It is a very good game I give it a solid 9/10 but I do recommend that you add the MD-11/DC-10 and maybe the 727 I think that the early jet age would bring a nice addition to the game! ### 5/5 — Add more slots! *2026-08-19, version 1.29.1* Love this game!! Could you please add more slots instead of 9! I have so many ideas I wanna create of my own. :) ### 5/5 — I love this game very much ✈️ *2026-08-19, version 1.29.1* This game has me addicted, But one thing I have to ask is to PLEASE add cargo planes 🥺… ### 5/5 — I like this game a lot *2026-08-18, version 1.29.1* very addictive game I like it very much. but tog developer if he can modify and make an update to the airport in Timisoara Romania TSR now max aircraft supports is airbus a321 and 737 max 900. but it also supports Boeing 757,767, airbus a330,340. I would like if an upgrade and a re-update could be made. thanks! ### 4/5 — Really good game *2026-08-18, version 1.29.1* I love this game and I do have a couple suggestions. 1. Is there way we can know if we have been approved for alliance if we are not on certain social media? 2. Is there also away for us to see our airline at the terminal, gates? I know this might be a tall ask. ### 4/5 — Great game but lacks some things *2026-08-17* Great game but please add let us add multiple special liveries and increase the earnings as it takes really long to earn money in the start. Also please add an option to auto control the ticket prices based on how good the seats are and where the flight is going ### 5/5 — Addicting *2026-08-15, version 1.29.1* Just addicting and amazing. Lots of fun and you will be playing for hours! Can get better through more updates but really download if you’re an av geek or not. Just saying my friend is addicted and he is not an av geek so download either way ### 5/5 — best ios airline sim *2026-08-14, version 1.29.1* this is literally the best ios airline simulator. it's fun, super customizable, and you can even see ur planes on the map. you can edit seat quality and layouts, along with liveries and logos, you can join alliances, it's very cool and quite easy to play. also realism mode and cargo mode are coming soon so im excited! please play this game, it deserves so much more recognition. ### 2/5 — Nobbutabairn *2026-08-14, version 1.29.1* A good idea with real data about planes and airports and a well designed interface but insufficiently thought through. Players can purchase indefinite resources and populate the skies with unrealistic swarms of planes, any number of planes can land and take off at the same time, including in the middle of the night, and customers are assumed to be as willing to depart or arrive at 1 or 2 a.m. as during waking hours. Feels as if it was hurried out without real thought. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Ripoff *2026-09-01, version 1.29.3* No need to spend here, only punished if you do. More you spend, more you are “taxed” with operating costs. Plus forced login every 36 hours makes you feel like this is just data collection. ### 1/5 — The new update no longer supports older devices *2026-08-07, version 1.27.5* I love the e game don’t get me wrong! It’s amazing but unfortunately they don’t no longer support the older phones and it says “update now” and I can’t play ### 1/5 — Punished *2026-07-24, version 1.28.1* No need to spend money here, if you do you are punished. Not sure what the Dev is doing here, you’re not competing against anyone but yourself . Need to spend but if you do you then are punished for it. No playability beyond a week or two. No insensitive to use more efficient aircraft and forced login every 36 hrs (reported as a data harvest)Putative cost index that does not reward long time players. ### 1/5 — Why cant you buy diamonds with money? *2026-07-13, version 1.27.5* Its a good game and should get 5 stars but why can’t you buy diamonds with gold. It can be like 5 million for like 50 or somthing more. If you guys add it we could have more liveries. ### 1/5 — Makes no sense *2026-06-28, version 1.27.2* When I make a route I can’t assign a plane to it and then when I do find the available aircraft tab it doesn’t do anything. ### 1/5 — Why can’t I make my airplane fly? *2026-06-27, version 1.27.2* I’ve spent the last hour trying to make my airplane fly on my route but it won’t fly ### 1/5 — Need New Mods and Community Leaders *2026-06-23, version 1.27.1* Great game, love the features and everything it has to offer and I have sunk days into this game. My review cannot reflect that when the developers doesn’t listen to the community surrounding community issues, my review will update to 5 star when the leaders of this game and it’s community locks in. ### 1/5 — Fantastic gameplay but... *2026-06-01, version 1.26.3* I love the core gameplay mechanics, they're the most interesting and compelling take on airline management I've seen (much better than sending out planes one at a time) but I'm very disappointed with the new airport images in a recent update. Most of them look oddly yellow and AI-generated. I'd rather have the old pictures and generic filler picture back, at least as an option. Will change a 5-star review if that's fixed. ### 1/5 — Bad metrics *2026-05-14, version 1.25.4* Starts out really well. Good looking app, good ui. Spent some $$ here, but then you realise you are punished for an expanding airline. Operating costs become ridiculous, once again punished for building an airline, which I thought was the entire point of the game. You are encouraged to upgraded to larger aircraft on a specific route, for an example, an extra 5200k of profit is quoted , only to find out when doing some calculations that it’s only 755k. Should tell us that when scheduling the flight in the first instance. Zero transparency when it comes to operating costs. Just have the highest seat count with the lowest amount of aircraft seems to be the goal . No point buying extra aircraft as you are punished later. I know the developers favour lower operating costs to new players, bla bla bla , but look after the people who have payed good $$ to support your game. Won’t be spending more here till this is fixed. Shame cause all these airline sims seem to go the same way. ### 1/5 — Logging in not working *2026-04-18, version 1.25.0* I love the game but when you try to log in it just is stuck loading and it never happened before but it is happening now and I see online that it has happens loads of times but it’s disappointing ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — 10/10 Game *2026-08-31, version 1.29.3* Lowkey, this game is the best game I’ve played on mobile that’s about aviation, and I hope to see this game get more fame, though I hope to see McDonell Douglas in the game, but overall, the game is awesome :D ### 5/5 — Really good app and great gameplay *2026-08-31, version 1.29.3* Amazing app great for when your bored ### 5/5 — Nice *2026-08-30, version 1.29.3* Love the game but will you add the bases in Antarctica and cargo flights ### 5/5 — Can you fix the issue on apple please? *2026-08-29, version 1.29.3* Not going to lie GREAT game! Really good job on ALL features of the game I’m sure this has won an award. But when you collect money you don’t actually claim anything and it’s really annoying. Anyway great job and hopefully you see this comment ❤️ ### 5/5 — features i want *2026-08-29, version 1.29.3* for some reason, i want something to where if u have so many planes without a main hub, you can just give it a hub to where it will automatically have a main hub and multiple routes ### 5/5 — Add an option to play as guest. *2026-08-28, version 1.29.3* I haven’t yet played this game because it forces me to add a google account via email and then phone number. And my problem with that is that I don’t really have a phone number, or I do and I don’t know it. So please add the ability to play as a guest, or add some other method of tying the progress to one device. That way I can play without having to spend hours convincing my parents to figure out what my phone number is just for one app. The game looks fun though so I’m giving it 5 stars because it looks fun and I’m sure I’m missing out on ### 5/5 — Cargo flight *2026-08-28, version 1.29.3* It’s really nice and wonderful App for Airline Manager game but I wish if can add 1 - Cargo aircrafts 2 - flight with stop over with one stop only not a shuttle flight as (A)- to (B) - to (C) to (A) direct without stop back in (B) 3- Upgrade PZU airport capacity to accommodate B77W Thank you ### 5/5 — Wow *2026-08-27, version 1.29.3* I’m speechless, good job!!! ### 5/5 — Add more slots! *2026-08-24, version 1.29.2* Love this game!! Could you please add more slots instead of 9! I have so many ideas I wanna create of my own. :) ### 5/5 — 5/5 *2026-08-23, version 1.29.2* As an aviation enthusiast, I love this game! Highly recommend it. However I don’t like how the flights disappear before touchdown, I think it would be cool to show it until it gets to the gate. Also would be cool to see altitude and speed. --- *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 2026-09-09.*