Idle Flight Manager vs SkyHaul
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Idle Flight Manager
Build your own global airline empire from a single plane to a fleet of jumbo jets. Design routes on a real map, manage aircraft, and earn revenue even while offline. Experience unpredictable events and a dynamic used-plane market.
- Live world map with real-time plane tracking
- Over 50 real aircraft across 10 tiers
- 9 unlockable world regions
- Offline revenue accumulation
- Random in-game events
- Auto Flight Manager for network optimization
- Daily used-plane market
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One small airplane. One route. $120,000 in the bank... That's how every aviation empire starts. Idle Flight Manager is a live-world airline management game where you draw routes on a real map, buy real aircraft, and watch your fleet grow from a single regional prop plane into a global operation of Boeing 747s and Airbus A380s. Earn revenue around the clock, even while you're offline. What you do: Tap airports to design multi-stop routes. Assign a plane and it begins flying the circuit immediately: carrying passengers, landing, turning around, and flying again. The map fills with glowing route lines as your airline expands. Revenue ticks up with every completed leg. Key features: - Live world map: real-time plane icons move along your routes on a global map that grows as you unlock regions. - 50+ real aircraft across 10 tiers. From ATR turboprops and Embraer regional jets to Boeing 777s, Airbus A380s, and exotic premium aircrafts. - 9 unlockable world regions. Expand from US domestic routes to international routes: Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. - Make money while you sleep: flights complete and income accumulates offline; return to a fully loaded airline fleet! - Random events: crew strikes, tourism booms, fuel price drops, and government subsidies keep operations unpredictable - Reward drones: spot drone icons flying across the map and tap to collect bonus cash or miles! - Auto Flight Manager: assigns planes, creates routes, and re-optimizes your entire network automatically. - Daily used-plane market, 8 rotating listings at steep discounts or spot-buy a rival's plane directly off the live map. Progression and Fleet Management: - Level up by completing route circuits and unlock the next tier of aircraft. Manage plane condition carefully. Let it fall below 50% and revenue drops noticeably. Let it fall below 30% and costs stack heavily. - Set pricing per route to match your strategy. Economy fills every seat at lower fares. Luxury charges almost double per passenger but risks flying half-empty. - Build hub airports where multiple routes converge to earn a network revenue bonus. Take bank loans to fund bold expansion. Spend miles to unlock countries, each opening new airports and longer, more profitable routes. The aircraft catalog: - Start with regional turboprops on short domestic hops. Work through narrow-bodies like the Boeing 737 MAX and Airbus A320neo. Progress into wide-bodies such as the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A330neo. - Finally unlock the legendary flagships: the 747-8, the A380plus, and rare premium aircraft for the most ambitious operators. Collect exclusive variants like the Stealth 787, the Golden A380, the Concorde Neo, and the Zero-G Orbiter. Your airline, always working: Over 150 NPC airlines populate the skies with ambient traffic. Speed boosts let you accelerate to 2x or 10x speed. Every 7 in-game days, a weekly report delivers claimable cash, miles, and route credits. Your fleet never stops, with or without you. Start your first flight. The world map is waiting.
SkyHaul
Build and manage your own airline, from buying real aircraft to opening routes. You can choose to fly manually, performing 3D takeoffs and landings, or let your crew handle the flights. Progress through career objectives and unlock new aircraft and liveries.
- Build and manage your own airline
- Buy and upgrade real aircraft
- Open routes to 100 busy airports
- Manual 3D takeoffs and landings
- Real-time flight progression
- Unlock liveries and career objectives
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Build your own airline: buy real aircraft, open routes, and land your planes yourself at the world's 100 busiest airports, rebuilt in 3D. Every flight is a decision. Hand the controls to your crew, or take over for takeoff and landing: the better you fly, the better your grade, and the faster your airline grows. RUN YOUR AIRLINE • 13 aircraft, from regional jets to superjumbos • Open routes based on each airport's demand • Level up your crews: piloting, service, technical skills • Watch the wear, repair, upgrade cabins and range • Sell at the right time: every aircraft has a trade-in value FLY WHEN YOU WANT • Manual 3D takeoffs and landings, graded on every flight • Wind, visibility, cloud ceiling, day and night: no two flights alike • 100 real airports with their actual runways, taxiways and lighting • Local time is real: land in Tokyo at sunset YOUR FLIGHTS CONTINUE WITHOUT YOU • Flights progress in real time, even with the app closed • Come back to land by hand, or let the crew take care of it COLLECT AND PROGRESS • 15 liveries to unlock and apply to your 3D aircraft • A new landing challenge every day, with Miles to earn • Career objectives to claim and levels that unlock new aircraft SkyHaul is fully playable offline, with no ads and no trackers. Download and take off.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: SkyHaul at 100% against Idle Flight Manager's 65%. SkyHaul also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks). Idle Flight Manager's advantage is ratings volume (3.5K vs 5) and chart position (#173 vs unranked). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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. Idle Flight Manager sells 13 one-off in-app purchases and SkyHaul sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
SkyHaul holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Idle Flight Manager has 3.5K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Idle Flight Manager's written reviews are positive against 100% of SkyHaul's.
Idle Flight Manager ships an update every 2 weeks, SkyHaul daily. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Idle Flight Manager | SkyHaul |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (3.5K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.5K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #173 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 327 MB | 152 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | INFINITY GAMES, LDA | William Balance |
Customer experience
Idle Flight Manager
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In-app purchases
Idle Flight Manager
- Starter Pack$2.99
- Carbon Offset Small$4.99
- Navigator$4.99
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- VIP Pass: Founders Edition$4.99
- Remove Forced Ads$4.99
- Globe Trotter$9.99
- Carbon Offset Medium$9.99
- VIP Pass v2$14.99
- Upgrade to ULTRA (from RFA)$19.99
- Auto Manager$19.99
- Carbon Offset Large$19.99
- ULTRA Pass$24.99
- Tycoon Bundle$49.99
SkyHaul
- 100 Miles$1.99
- 300 Miles$3.99
- 700 Miles$8.99
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- 1500 Miles$17.99
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