EST. ANY YEAR, 1950–2026
Found a carrier in any year from 1950 to 2026. Real demand, real slots, real money. Single-player, offline, deterministic.
Found
Pick a founder, a jurisdiction, and one of ~3,000 commercial airports as your hub. Choose a brand archetype and a network strategy, sign for your first aircraft, and clear AOC certification. Capital comes the way it really does: friends and family, then angels, then Series A, private equity, and if you survive long enough, an IPO.
Route
Click airports on the network map, shape a multi-leg plan, and open a draft proposal, then demand, choice, and frequency dominance decide whether the bet pays.
DEMAND
Gravity model calibrated on US DOT T-100 segment data and Eurostat aviation filings.
CHOICE
A multinomial logit decides every passenger's carrier: price, frequency, brand, layover.
DOMINANCE
The S-curve: hold 60% of a market's frequency and take more than 60% of its passengers.
THE AI CARRIERS PRICE WITH THE SAME EQUATIONS YOU DO.
Operate
Three-layer scheduler: weekly pattern, tail assignment, daily realization. The Operations Control Center is a working console, not a dashboard.
The challenge is not growth. It is synchronization.
Compete
A bilateral air-services agreement between two governments. A fifteen-minute slot window at a coordinated airport. Real airlines need both. So do you. No slot, no rotation: the aircraft sits.
1950 → 2026
Fuel prices, FX rates, aircraft availability, and historical events are calendar-aware across the whole window. Every event lands with a ±2-year jitter, so no two playthroughs are identical.
Exit
IPO
A real valuation model, float math, ratchets and cliffs all the way up from the friends-and-family round. The bell is earned.
CHAPTER 11
Fuel, debt, FX, and a schedule you couldn't hold together. Losing is a real ending, not a game-over screen you reload past.
Both endings are playable today. And the engine is deterministic: same seed, same decisions, byte-identical outcome, forever. Your save is your save.
Built in public
The second Road to playtest devlog. Crew is a full workstation: coverage and readiness, individual careers and upgrades, collective agreements and labor health, plus a live hiring market. All wired into whether your flights actually fly.
Read →The first in a series on what we are polishing before the July playtest. Brand is a workstation: reputation, loyalty ecosystem, lounge builds, and FFP launch, all wired into demand and yield.
Read →Most sims assign you a number. We built a nine-layer demand stack calibrated against real DOT, Eurostat, and World Bank data, with era-specific gravity parameters from the 1950s forward. Here is what that actually looks like.
Read →Development happens in public
Discord is where in-progress builds, calibration notes, and design conversations live. Early access on Steam lands Q1 2027. Pre-launch updates come from Discord first.
