Airline Manager 2025 lets you build your very own aviation empire on a phone

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Airline Manager 2025 lets you build your very own aviation empire on a phone

If you’re a 90s kid, chances are you remember (and possible spent hours playing) games from the SimCity franchise – which required you to build entire bustling metropolises from scratch.

Well, we came across a game somewhat similar to it on Google Play Store the other day. Similar in the sense that it does require you to build something from scratch. It’s not a city, however. Instead, you get to build and operate your very own aviation empire. Intrigued? Meet Airline Manager 2025.

Airline Manager 2025: What you need to know

Airline Manager 2025, simply put, allows you to build your own airline from scratch. When we say building an airline though, it’s not as simple as purchasing aircraft, creating routes, and earning money.

As a player, you get to build an airline that competes with others from all around the world, in real time. You are solely responsible for route creation and fleet expansion, on-time arrivals and departures, maintaining fuel reserves and carbon credits, maintaining staff as well as keeping them motivated, (and not to mention – paid on time), running marketing campaigns, and much more.

The game is a great starting point for anyone looking to get into the aviation industry, or even to generally start a venture of their own, Keep in mind that this is a game though, and not an actual course in fleet management.

Airline Manager 2025 lets you build your very own aviation empire on a phone

Airline Manager 2025: Things I liked

Right off the bat, what stands out with Airline Manager 2025 is its realism. As a player, you are required to depart airplanes from your hub at periodic intervals and keep checking on their progress. As and when your fuel reserves run low, you also need to watch out for your fuel reserves and carbon credits, and refill them as when required.

You get to run marketing campaigns with varying budgets and durations, wherein you can choose whether to focus on increasing your airline’s reputation, or advertise its first class facilities, or perhaps even its eco-friendliness.

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The feature I found the coolest though, was the price fluctuations in markets in real time. Fuel, carbon credit and even aircraft prices in the second-hand market keep varying every hour.

What’s more, if you have a fleet of over five aircraft, you can even float an IPO and list your airline on the stock market, if you’re looking to raise money. And when you gain investors and/or expand your airline, your share prices keep increasing. The prices of the stocks of other airlines that you may have invested in, keep varying as well, depending on their operations.

Airline Manager 2025 lets you build your very own aviation empire on a phone

The game, once you’ve earned enough bonus points, also allows you to undertake cargo operations. And three months of doing so then allows you to run charter services as well.

It’s not just the features though, that add to the realism. The game’s general design and features add to it all the more. Examples of this include all airports being marked by their ICAO code, and a realistic map view of where your aircrafts are at all time, as well as their cruise speeds and altitudes. What’s cool is, an aircraft in-game takes exactly as long to fly between two destinations, as the same aircraft would in real life.

Airline Manager 2025: Things I didn’t like

While the feature list for Airline Manager 2025 is seemingly endless, there are a few small niggles I had with the game.

For starters, there’s the interface. The clunky animations, and certain buttons that rather frequently stop responding, and therefore require you to restart the game are a bit of an annoyance. There is also the unusually small text which required me to often strain my eyes to figure out what I was looking at.

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More importantly though – At times, the game stretches the realism a bit more than what one bargains for. To move ahead in the game, you have to spend in-game currency and bonus points, to unlock certain features.

Airline Manager 2025 lets you build your very own aviation empire on a phone

However, obtaining said currency and bonus points is a rather expensive affair, with purchases setting you back by nearly as much as Rs 9,500. Progression in the game then, whether you like it or not, is rather slow. This is also partially attributable to the fact that you are required to keep an active tab on the game at all times, which isn’t very feasible.

Having said that however, that last bit is entirely subjective. And none of these take away from the fact that the game is one of the more mentally stimulating titles I’ve come across recently, and one that I’ve thoroughly enjoyed playing.

How to get Airline Manager 2025

Airline Manager is available to play on Android smartphones (via Google Play Store), and on iPads via Apple’s App Store. Strangely though, it doesn’t seem to be available for iPhones.

The game works on a freemium model, and has both paid and free features. While you don’t necessarily need the paid features to progress in the game, they do help quicken the process. It also has absolutely no advertisements that pop up while playing, which is nice.

As mentioned earlier, Airline Manager 2025 is a great game for those interested in just about any aspect of aviation, or aviation as a whole. It’s also good practice for anyone looking to set up a venture of their own – of any sort – and helps build the discipline required to run it. All in all, it’s a game we highly recommend all of the budding entrepreneurs amongst you try out.

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