Play Airlines Online
Start with a couple of rusty planes and a tight budget—set ticket prices, dodge fuel costs, and pray your rivals don’t undercut you into bankruptcy. Mess up and you’ll watch your fleet fall apart mid-flight while Alaska’s winter eats your profits.
Airlines came out in 1988 as part of the MS-DOS Classic Games series, published by Taito. It was a business simulation game from a time when strategy titles often relied on spreadsheets and menus more than flashy graphics. You manage an airline company, competing against computer opponents in a race for dominance over a set number of years.
You control the entire operation, buying planes, setting ticket prices, and scheduling routes between cities. The main objective is to turn a profit and expand your fleet while outmaneuvering rival airlines. Key mechanics include balancing fuel costs against ticket income, managing aircraft maintenance to avoid disastrous mid-flight failures, and carefully timing your expansion to avoid financial overextension. The pacing is deliberate, almost methodical, and the difficulty can be punishing if you make a few bad investments early on. It feels like a tense, high-stakes chess match played with balance sheets and flight paths.
Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".
Download Airlines ROM
You can download this ROM to play Airlines offline using an MS-DOS emulator (Top Emulators).
*This ROM is provided for backup and educational purposes only.
