Jetstream vs Skyline Sim
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Jetstream
Manage a real airline, drawing custom routes on a world map and making strategic decisions about fares, fleet, and market conditions. Compete against AI rivals through acquisitions and market manipulation, while navigating economic events and weather.
- Real-world map with custom routes
- Dynamic jet-fuel market
- AI-driven rival airlines
- Fleet management and R&D
- Configurable cabin classes
- Scenario-based gameplay
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Jetstream is an airline management game. You start with one plane and a little cash, and build an airline on a real world map. HOW IT PLAYS • Open routes between 126 real airports — New York, London, Tokyo, Lagos — each with its own demand, distance and rivals. • Buy or lease the fleet, from the 9-seat Cessna Caravan to the 525-seat A380, plus freighters for cargo. • Set the fare on every line and fit the cabin: economy, business, first. Too high and you fly empty; too low and you give the margin away. • Race a hundred other airlines. A dozen of them fight back: they undercut your best line, hold grudges, and can be bought out. • Let the clock run at 1×, 4× or 16×. Fuel swings, gates run out, and the airline grows — or goes under. THEN IT GOES DEEPER Trade fuel or refine your own. Take a stake in a rival and sit on its board. Buy the airport under your hub. Paint the fleet in your colors and draw the mark on the tail. NEW IN 3.7 When the cash melts, you know why. The briefing names the lines that lose money, how much a day, and the cause — fuel, a rival, or too few passengers. Park a line in one tap: it stays open, ready to fly again when it pays. No ads, no energy bar, no timer between you and your airline. A few extras are sold in the game; none is needed to play.
Skyline Sim
Manage and grow your own airline from a single leased plane to a global mega-empire. Make strategic decisions about routes, fleet, staff, and finances in a detailed simulation. Compete against real rivals and navigate industry events to achieve profitability and dominance.
- Route planning and network building
- Fleet acquisition and customization
- Staff management and development
- Financial analysis and reporting
- Competitive industry simulation
- Regional economic differences
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You are nobody with a plane. Your aunt staked you a little seed money. The industry has carriers that have never heard of you. The only aircraft you can afford is a leased eleven-seat turboprop. Everything you will ever own, you will have earned: the first profitable week, the first plane with your registration on it, the first jet, the first time a rival you used to look up at appears below you on the ladder. Skyline Sim is an airline management game built like a flight deck. Dark instruments, live numbers, decisions with weight. ROUTES Real cities on a real satellite map, with your network drawn between them. Weekly demand tells you who wants to fly and where nobody flies them direct. Every route is a boarding pass with load factor, on-time performance and weekly profit. Set the fare, set the frequency, watch the pass fill. FLEET Lease on day one, buy used when you can, order new when you have earned it. Fifteen airframes across turboprops, regional jets, mainline jets and widebodies, unlocked tier by tier as your market cap grows. Each aircraft carries three dials for wear, condition and range. Configure the cabin seat by seat. LIVERY Pick a paint scheme and a fin emblem. It goes on every aircraft the day it joins the fleet, tail, cheatline and all. PEOPLE Pilots, cabin crew, and ground and maintenance, each with happiness and workload meters, a wage you set, and job ads you post. Overwork shows before it bites. Fill the executive desk with a Head of Operations, Maintenance, People and Finance, and unlock a research tree of twenty-three upgrades. MONEY This is where you find out whether the quarter worked. Revenue and profit draw as traces on a black display. Unit cost as RASK against CASK. Break-even load factor for every route. A quarter report grades you, and a bank and investors watch how you do. THE INDUSTRY Sixty-eight carriers on a ladder, real rivals with real names, suppliers you bargain with, fuel prices that move, and a deck of events that can hand you a windfall or a cyclone warning. Crashes, courts and recalls arrive when you are big enough to be worth suing. FOUR HOME COUNTRIES The United States is the premium game: rich fliers, expensive union crews. India is the volume game. China is the patience game. Australia is the optimisation game of long thin routes. HOW IT PLAYS Time only passes while you are playing. Nothing happens behind your back. A session is a few weeks of the sim; a campaign runs from survival to empire. Free, with one optional sponsor ad you can choose to watch for an in-game bonus, and one short interstitial at most per quarter. No purchases, no accounts, no sign-in. Three save slots, all on your device. Plays fully offline. Built for iPhone. Requires iOS 18.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Jetstream at 5.0 against Skyline Sim's 4.0. Jetstream also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly). Skyline Sim's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.5). On price, ratings volume 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. Jetstream sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Skyline Sim asks for nothing beyond the download.
Jetstream holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Jetstream ships an update every 2 days, Skyline Sim fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Jetstream | Skyline Sim |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.5 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 169 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Morgane Fibicher | Prakhar Singh |
In-app purchases
Jetstream
- A Little Help$0.99
- Welcome Pack$2.99
- Funding Round$2.99
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- Ironclad Contracts$2.99
- Founder's Starts$2.99
- Comfortjet + The Ascent$4.99
- Private Hangar$5.99
- Public Offering$7.99
- Director General Pack$8.99
Skyline Sim
No in-app purchases
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