Airline Legacy

It's a football-manager career — but for airlines. In Airline Legacy you don't just own a carrier, you're hired to run one. Take the CEO chair at a struggling airline, answer to a demanding board, hit their targets, and claw your way from a no-name regional outfit to the most powerful executive in the industry. Miss your numbers and you're fired — and a rival CEO takes your seat.

How It Plays

Airline Legacy is a turn-based management game played through maps, menus and reports. You run the company; you don't fly the planes.

Each turn is one month. Open routes and set fares, buy or lease aircraft, send your agents after airport slots and hubs, then end the turn and see how it went in your P&L and at the next board review. Pick Easy, Normal or Hard to match the challenge to your style.

Expect deep, numbers-driven strategy in the tradition of Aerobiz and Football Manager.

Live the Career

• Sign contracts with airlines of every culture — budget, premium, or cutthroat — each with its own board, salary, and mandate.

• Answer to the board: hit their objectives to win renewals and promotions, or burn through their patience and get sacked.

• Compete in a league of rival CEOs — your career is measured against theirs, and they're gunning for your job.

• Get poached, promoted, or fired, then work the job market for your next seat. Your reputation follows you everywhere.

Run Every Side of the Business

• Fly the world — open routes to 1,000+ cities across every country on Earth, and connect them through your hubs.

• Build your fleet — buy or lease beloved classic and modern airliners, brand-new or pre-owned.

• Fight for slots — negotiate scarce takeoff and landing rights at the world's busiest airports.

• Plant your hubs — establish bases to anchor and expand your network.

• Build your team — hire and fire specialist agents to broker slot deals, hub bids, and campaigns.

• Own the terminal — open lounges, hotels, and passenger businesses for fresh revenue streams.

• Fill the seats — launch advertising and PR campaigns to drive demand and grow your brand.

Master the Bottom Line

Fuel, wages, maintenance, airport fees, aircraft age, load factors, reputation — every call lands on the monthly P&L. Survive the lean months and stay solvent: let the losses pile up and the board calls an emergency meeting, with your job on the line.

Prefer the Classics? Play Historical Mode

Rather own your airline outright? Historical Mode is a love letter to the classic airline sims. Pick your decade — 1980, 1995, or 2010 — and build a global empire from scratch as the aircraft, economies, and world map evolve around you. No board, no contracts. Just you, the map, and decades to dominate the skies.

Play with friends: take Historical Mode online through Steam and race your friends, and the AI airlines, to build the biggest airline of the era.

Take the Chair

The boardroom is waiting. Can you become the world's number-one airline CEO?

Available in 13 languages: English, Thai, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Russian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil) and Italian.