Press kit
The Airline Empire · iPhone · released October 2, 2026
In one sentence. Airline Empire is a pixel-art airline management game for iPhone: 62 real airports, rival airlines, a board of directors — paid once, no ads, no in-app purchases, fully playable offline.
Fact sheet
- Title
- The Airline Empire on the App Store; Airline Empire in the game
- Developer
- Barbier Paul-Aymeric, independent developer, France
- Release
- October 2, 2026
- Platform
- iPhone, iOS 17 or later
- Price
- Paid once; no ads, no in-app purchases
- Languages
- English, French
- Genre
- Management, simulation, strategy — pixel art
- Connection
- None required: everything runs offline, no account; optional Game Center from version 1.1
- Website
- airlineempire.fr
- Press contact
- contact@airlineempire.fr — free download codes on request, for press and creators
Description
Found your airline and make it the biggest in the world.
Airline Empire is a complete management simulation in pixel art, fully playable offline. The player starts from one European hub with two aircraft, opens routes, sets fares and onboard service, buys slots, hires ground staff, grows the fleet and earns the licences that unlock the other continents.
- A real world — 62 airports in 43 countries across 6 continents; demand per city pair, with seasons; a living map where aircraft fly and night falls.
- An airline — 7 fictional aircraft models, two cabin classes, hubs with an animated terminal, fleet maintenance.
- Rivals — two to five airlines with readable personalities that open routes, buy back slots and start price wars; a pixel-art press reports their moves.
- A board of directors — raising funds brings in directors, who vote on big decisions and can fire the player.
- Three endings — become the world's biggest airline, get fired by the board, or be liquidated by the bank.
Video
Download the video (MP4, 1080 × 1920)
Screenshots
6.9-inch iPhone screenshots (1320 × 2868), full resolution.
Logo and icon
Logo
PNG 384 × 384, transparent background. Pixel art: scale it by a whole number, without smoothing. Download
Credits
Design and development: Barbier Paul-Aymeric. Music: Chiptune Pack, composed by Ninichi — ninichimusic.com · @ninichimusic. Font: Jersey 15, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Map background after Natural Earth, public domain.
Airline Empire is fiction: its airlines, manufacturers and aircraft do not exist. The airports and cities are real.