Aviation Runway vs Airport Tycoon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Aviation Runway
Build and manage your own airline empire from scratch. Automate flights to generate profits, even when offline. Expand your crew to increase flight duration and ticket prices.
- Build airline legacy
- Automate flights
- Offline profit generation
- Expand crew
- Boost flight time
- Increase ticket prices
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Build your airline legacy from the ground up. Automate your flights and watch as your empire grows and profits flood in, even when you’re offline! Expand your crew to boost overall flight time and ticket prices! Got issues or suggestions? Just email aviationrunway.community@gmail.com
Airport Tycoon
Manage an airport, from maintaining aircraft and controlling air traffic to signing airline contracts and building your own fleet. Expand terminals and acquire special aircraft to become a global aviation tycoon.
- Realistic aircraft maintenance and painting
- Air traffic control for arrivals and departures
- Build and manage your own aircraft fleet
- Expand airport terminals (domestic, international, cargo, VIP)
- Acquire special aircraft like Concorde and An225
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Airport Tycoon is an airport simulation game, as the director in the game world you start with an airport and hangar, you should maintain airplanes from airlines at beginning, control air traffic, sign contracts with airlines and build your own fleet! You can see your airways all over the world! === Game Features === *Relastic Maintenance & Paint Aircraft Play as a professional aircraft maintenance engineer, through cleaning, de-icing, engine disassembly, etc. To complete the regular maintenance of the aircraft to ensure that the aircraft safely perform every takeoff and landing tasks. *Air Traffic Control In your busy airport, play the role of ATC to make decisions on flight arrivals and departures, to sort out aircraft queues, to ease congestion and delays, to effectively improve flight efficiency and to expand airport revenue! *Build Fleet & Be the tycoon In the process of gradual contracting, it is also possible to expand domestic, international, cargo, VIP terminals, land special aircraft such as Concorde, An225 and C919! Become a rich Airport Tycoon!
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Verdict
Aviation Runway and Airport Tycoon both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Aviation Runway's written reviews are positive against 38% of Airport Tycoon's. Airport Tycoon's advantage is ratings volume (184 vs 9) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Aviation Runway sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Airport Tycoon sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Aviation Runway holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Airport Tycoon has 184 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Aviation Runway's written reviews are positive against 38% of Airport Tycoon's.
Aviation Runway ships an update every 10 days, Airport Tycoon every 4 days. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Aviation Runway | Airport Tycoon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better | 4.8 (184 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 37.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 184 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 273 MB | 357 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brent Walter | Fuzhou Lingyuan Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Aviation Runway
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In-app purchases
Aviation Runway
- 200 Wings$0.99
- Beginner package$3.99
- 1300 Wings$4.99
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- 3000 Wings$9.99
Airport Tycoon
- A Couple of Gems$0.99
- Special Pack$1.99
- Super Radar$1.99
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- No Ads$4.99
- A Handful of Gems$4.99
- A Pile of Gems$9.99
- A Sack of Gems$19.99
- A Box of Gems$29.99
- A Crate of Gems$49.99
Questions
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