Play Air Management - Oozora ni Kakeru (Japan) (Rev A) Online

Game Overview

Air Management: Oozora ni Kakeru is one of those weirdly addictive SNES business sims where you suddenly realize you’ve spent three hours tweaking flight schedules. You start by picking a home city—Tokyo, New York, whatever—and then it’s all about sweet-talking other airports into letting your planes land there. The negotiation bits feel like haggling with stubborn shopkeepers, but in a good way.

You’ll buy planes (the tiny ones are cheap but break constantly), set ticket prices, and try not to bankrupt yourself on maintenance. There’s something oddly satisfying about watching your little airline logo crawl across the map as routes expand. And yeah, you can totally screw up—I once flooded the market with too many flights to Osaka and tanked my profits for a year. The menus are very 90s Koei, so expect lots of spreadsheets and tiny text, but it’s weirdly charming once you get the hang of it.

If you’ve ever wanted to run an airline without the real-world consequences of crashing, this is your chance.