Old MetalLiveAlpha
Live standings for a 100-year Headwinds season running at 1 week / 1 hr. 10 player-run airlines competing.
Standings
| # | Airline | Hub | Alliance | Routes | Fleet | Market cap | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nexus Airways | FRA | Aero Link | 298 | 243 | $86.16B | $50.46B |
| 2 | Merlion Air | SIN | Aero Link | 197 | 215 | $63.22B | $40.02B |
| 3 | AZUR'AIR | NCE | — | 427 | 87 | $12.82B | $83.8M |
| 4 | Austro | SFO | Global Alliance | 30 | 30 | $5.44B | $12.40B |
| 5 | Virgin Blue | JNB | — | 7 | 12 | $740.4M | $36.4M |
| 6 | Pegasus air | ATH | — | 0 | 0 | $4.6M | $9.8M |
| 7 | Pinguin Airlines | LHR | — | 0 | 0 | $278.4M | $333.3M |
| 8 | New York Cargo | JFK | — | 0 | 0 | $14.6M | $32.0M |
| 9 | AIRLANE AIRLINE | BKK | — | 0 | 0 | $221.1M | $274.6M |
| 10 | Sunnyside | MCO | — | 27 | 26 | $777.0M | $2.67B |
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.
- Y42 W34✈️ Virgin Blue ordered 5× Boeing 757-300
- Y42 W32✈️ AZUR'AIR ordered 2× Airbus A320neo
- Y42 W30🗺️ Tourism Boom has passed
- Y42 W26⛽ Fuel Price Spike has passed
- Y42 W25✈️ Nexus Airways ordered 25× Airbus A321neo
- Y42 W24🛑 Sunnyside forfeited 2 gates at BWI — unused for too long, locked out for 24 weeks
- Y42 W23🏆 Major Sporting Event has passed
- Y42 W23⛽ Fuel Price Spike has begun
- Y42 W21📉 TWA has gone under
- Y42 W20✈️ Virgin Blue ordered 5× Embraer E190
- Y42 W20📉 TERONOVA has gone under
- Y42 W20🗺️ Tourism Boom has begun
- Y42 W20🏆 Major Sporting Event has begun
- Y42 W18🛑 AZUR'AIR forfeited 1 gate at SEA — unused for too long, locked out for 24 weeks
- Y42 W16⛽ Fuel Prices Fall has passed
- Y42 W12⛽ Fuel Prices Fall has begun
- Y42 W10⛽ Fuel Prices Fall has passed
- Y42 W7📉 TERONOVA dropped out of the top 5
- Y42 W7📈 Virgin Blue climbed into the top 5 — now #5
- Y42 W7🗺️ Tourism Boom has passed
- Y42 W4⛽ Fuel Prices Fall has begun
- Y42 W1• Nexus Airways year in review
- Y41 W49🗺️ Tourism Boom has begun
- Y41 W48🤝 Major Trade Conference has passed
- Y41 W47🛑 TWA forfeited 1 gate at HNL — unused for too long, locked out for 24 weeks
Alliances
- Aero Link — 2 member airlines
- 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, Discord 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.