Old MetalLiveAlpha
Live standings for a 100-year Headwinds season running at 1 week / 1 hr. 6 player-run airlines competing.
Standings
| # | Airline | Hub | Alliance | Routes | Fleet | Market cap | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Austro | SFO | Global Alliance | 31 | 31 | $4.44B | $8.62B |
| 2 | TWA | JFK | — | 20 | 25 | $1.41B | $3.44B |
| 3 | Pioneer Airways | FLL | — | 78 | 78 | $1.38B | $1.52B |
| 4 | Sunnyside | MCO | — | 34 | 34 | $1.00B | $3.25B |
| 5 | Baboo Airlines | MIA | — | 34 | 23 | $544.7M | $52.7M |
| 6 | Pinguin Airlines | LHR | — | 0 | 0 | $348.5M | $479.6M |
Airlines are ranked by market capitalisation — what this world's stock market currently thinks each carrier is worth, smoothed week to week so one strong result cannot vault a name up the table. Routes counts city pairs flown, not departures; fleet is every airframe on the books, orders included; cash is the bank balance this week. The table refreshes on every tick: at this world's pace of 1 week / 1 hr, a new game week lands whether or not anyone is watching.
Headlines
The moves big enough to change the table: fleet orders of five or more airframes, routes opened or dropped in bulk, gates won at auction or forfeited, alliances forming and breaking, airlines going under, and the world events that hit everyone's demand at once.
- Y21 W1🗺️ Tourism Boom has begun
- Y20 W51⛽ Fuel Price Spike has begun
- Y20 W50🎄 Holiday Travel Surge has passed
- Y20 W46🎄 Holiday Travel Surge has passed
- Y20 W46🎄 Holiday Travel Surge has begun
- Y20 W45⛽ Fuel Price Spike has passed
- Y20 W44✈️ Baboo Airlines ordered 5× Boeing 717-200
- Y20 W43🌡️ Heatwave Escape Rush has passed
- Y20 W43🎄 Holiday Travel Surge has begun
- Y20 W42⛽ Fuel Price Spike has begun
- Y20 W41🛑 Pioneer Airways forfeited 1 gate at HPN — unused for too long, locked out for 24 weeks
- Y20 W38🌡️ Heatwave Escape Rush has begun
- Y20 W36🌏 Asia-Pacific Travel Surge has passed
- Y20 W32🇺🇸 US Domestic Slowdown has passed
- Y20 W28🌏 Asia-Pacific Travel Surge has begun
- Y20 W25🤝 Major Trade Conference has passed
- Y20 W25🌊 Natural Disaster has passed
- Y20 W25🇺🇸 US Domestic Slowdown has begun
- Y20 W24🤝 Major Trade Conference has begun
- Y20 W20🛑 Baboo Airlines forfeited 1 gate at SDF — unused for too long, locked out for 24 weeks
- Y20 W20🌊 Natural Disaster has begun
- Y20 W18🤝 Major Trade Conference has passed
- Y20 W18🎄 Holiday Travel Surge has passed
- Y20 W17🤝 Major Trade Conference has begun
- Y20 W16✈️ Baboo Airlines ordered 3× McDonnell Douglas MD-80
Alliances
- Global Alliance — 1 member airline
World rules
- Founding capital: $12.0M for a new airline.
- Pace: 1 week / 1 hr — the server flies a game week on that clock whether or not anyone is logged in.
- Gate scarcity: on — airports have finite gates, sold at auction and tradeable between airlines.
- New World Restrictions: on — only older single-deck types can be leased, and the lease order book is capped against the operating fleet.
- Rival one-stops: on — rivals sell connections over their hubs in every market.
Opened Jul 29, 2026 · ends Mar 2, 2027.
Found an airline in Old Metal →Free, in the browser, no download. Sign in with Google or a one-time email link, pick a hub, and your first week flies on the next tick. Joining a running world is normal — a new airline starts with the same founding capital as everyone else did, and the incumbents above are exactly the rivals you will be pricing against.