I hate rating games and looked forward to rating this masterpiece. Great game, really smart build, very little bugs. As a software engineer, I would love seasonal timelines so demand is less uniform. The utilization of each flight looks the same so you can max rev pretty quickly by stacking flights on the same path. So there is no canibalization of demand relative to flights on the path and I’m not sure if that is realistic. It could be I’m not sure but I’m guessing there is some demand threshold. At the very least randomizing utilization between 20-80% could be a fun wrench. Although you would need to build an analytics suite to monitor the metrics. Also every unit is in millions, would like billions cause the numbers get pretty high. Congrats on the game!

Game is fun overall, but several glaring issues appear and become more prominent when you make an EAPStarting with the flight manager, it is extremely slow and only will do three actions in anywhere from 2-7 minutes. Won’t always buy planes but instead wait for miles to add up and only expand. Routes are created however it wants and often has the same rotation of major airports. There is no options to have smaller aircraft be auto assigned to smaller routes and the game will often put them on routes out of range. When expanding it will buy a route and put two aircraft on it but only one or none shows up along with it not buying slots for those aircraft. If the wait is going to be long allow for more actions and better reporting. Next up VIP, when you purchase VIP to get rid of ads it only works with events and in the store. Otherwise doubling offline income and level ups just don’t happen. Now for the base game items;Slots can only be purchased one at a time and you can’t ever have more the one open slot unless it’s a new airport. Allowing for more slots to stay open or bulk purchases of routes would make more senseSame goes for aircraft but you can stock up on aircraft, but they are bought one at a time. Route and aircraft organization is sloppy and just a long scroll which makes it takes longer and longer to repair aircraft and edit routes late game. This game has beautiful potential but needs a good amount of work before spending any money toward the game

I’ve been playing Idle Flight Manager, and overall it’s a really enjoyable and well-designed iOS game. It does a great job of balancing idle mechanics with enough strategy to keep things interesting. Managing routes, upgrading aircraft, and expanding your airline feels rewarding without being overly complicated, which makes it easy to pick up and keep coming back to.My one major complaint comes once your airline gets large. When you have hundreds of routes, the routes tab becomes difficult to navigate. For example, trying to find a specific route like DEN–FRA among a long list can be frustrating. This also becomes an issue when repairing airplanes—if you have multiple aircraft under maintenance, it’s hard to quickly locate which route they were assigned to. Some sort of search, filter, or sorting system would make a huge difference here.

I think this is a really solid airline building game. However, I would love to have more than just one airline as an option. I would also love to see additional airports. The more airports they add the more fun the game would be. Especially if they concentrate on adding domestic airports in the US that have airline service that aren’t currently in the game. For example: Duluth, Appleton, Eau Claire, Minot, Williston, Moline, Lincoln, etc…you get the idea. It would also be cool if they would allow you to develop a livery for your airline. And maybe if they would allow you to buy more than one slot at a time for airport so you don’t have to continually do that. It would be cool to be able to designate airports as hubs as well.