Comparison

Airline Manager vs Skyline Sim

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Airline Manager

Features
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Build and manage your own airline in Airline Simulator. Start with a small fleet and grow your airline into a global operation. Buy aircraft, acquire airports, create routes, and expand your network across the world. BUILD YOUR FLEET Buy aircraft and build a fleet that fits your airline. Expand as you grow and choose the right planes for the routes you want to fly. EXPAND YOUR AIRLINE Buy airports, create new routes, connect cities, and expand your network into new destinations around the world. MANAGE YOUR AIRLINE Manage your fleet, airports, routes, and growing airline. Make your own decisions and build your company from a small operation into a global airline. How big can you make your airline?

About

Skyline Sim

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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.

Screenshots

Airline Manager4 screens
Skyline Sim4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Airline Manager at none against Skyline Sim's shown. Airline Manager also leads on update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly) and device support (3 vs 1). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Airline Manager ships an update weekly, Skyline Sim fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 4 level
Airline Manager versus Skyline Sim: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAirline ManagerSkyline Sim
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB169 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperMahal MammadliPrakhar Singh

In-app purchases

None

Airline Manager

No in-app purchases

None

Skyline Sim

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Airline Manager free?
Airline Manager is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Skyline Sim free?
Skyline Sim is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Airline Manager or Skyline Sim have ads?
Skyline Sim shows ads; Airline Manager does not.
Which is updated more often, Airline Manager or Skyline Sim?
Airline Manager ships an update weekly, and Skyline Sim fortnightly. Most recently, Airline Manager was updated on October 15, 2026 and Skyline Sim on October 24, 2026.

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