Airline Empires

Airline Empires: Build & Manage Your Virtual Airline

A business simulation game where you manage an airline company, building routes, buying planes, managing finances, and becoming the most successful virtual airline CEO with detailed economic modeling.

What is Airline Empires?

Airline Empires is a complex business simulation game developed by Interactive Magic and published by Strategy First in 2000. Players take on the role of a budding airline CEO attempting to grow their company into an industry giant.

Gameplay revolves heavily around strategic decision making regarding routes, hubs, plane acquisition, personnel management, marketing, and pricing. The core goal is to balance these factors successfully to maximize profits and outperform rival AI airlines. Airlines can fly both passengers and cargo while expanding operations across the United States and eventually globally.

Key features include:

• Detailed economic modeling - costs change dynamically based on supply, demand, and competition
• Over a dozen playable planes and manufacturers with unique stats
• Ever-shifting consumer demand that reacts to marketing campaigns
• Stocks and investment options for additional revenue streams
• Talent recruitment systems where players hire pilots, operations agents, managers and more

With its emphasis on strategic planning and number crunching over fast-paced action, Airline Empires appeals mostly to hardcore business simulation fans intrigued by the behind-the-scenes logistics of running an airline. While accessible difficulty options prevent it from being extremely hardcore, the game still has plenty of analytical depth with its duo of campaign and sandbox modes providing long-term motivation for virtual airline CEOs.

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