Piston AgeLiveAlpha
Live standings for a 100-year Headwinds season running at 1 week / 1 hr. 8 player-run airlines competing.
Standings
| # | Airline | Hub | Alliance | Routes | Fleet | Market cap | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | L'Aigle Céleste | CDG | Prime Meridian | 372 | 269 | $8.03B | $224.8M |
| 2 | SkyGam | MAD | — | 463 | 128 | $3.46B | $23.2M |
| 3 | Asteria Air | GRR | — | 39 | 29 | $809.8M | $11.7M |
| 4 | Caldoren Air Lines | DFW | — | 11 | 7 | $151.1M | $35.6M |
| 5 | Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij | AMS | — | 15 | 11 | $95.3M | $29.4M |
| 6 | Flugfélag Íslands | KEF | — | 7 | 5 | $59.9M | $11.0M |
| 7 | ZhomaZ | FCO | — | 0 | 1 | $535k | $78k |
| 8 | Princess Airlines | HKG | — | 2 | 7 | $526k | $674k |
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.
- Y4 W28✈️ SkyGam ordered 5× Douglas DC-6B
- Y4 W28📉 America Southwest has gone under
- Y4 W28🌏 Asia-Pacific Travel Surge has passed
- Y4 W27🛑 SkyGam forfeited 1 gate at BEL — unused for too long, locked out for 24 weeks
- Y4 W23⛽ Fuel Prices Fall has passed
- Y4 W20🌏 Asia-Pacific Travel Surge has begun
- Y4 W19🇺🇸 US Domestic Slowdown has passed
- Y4 W17⛽ Fuel Prices Fall has begun
- Y4 W12🇺🇸 US Domestic Slowdown has begun
- Y1 W1🤝 Prime Meridian alliance founded
- Y4 W7⛽ Fuel Prices Fall has passed
- Y4 W2⛽ Fuel Prices Fall has begun
- Y4 W1⛽ Fuel Prices Fall has passed
- Y3 W50📉 Sky Dream Airways has gone under
- Y3 W49⛽ Fuel Prices Fall has begun
- Y3 W48🌍 Global Travel Boom has passed
- Y3 W47🗺️ Tourism Boom has passed
- Y3 W42📉 SM Air has gone under
- Y3 W41🗺️ Tourism Boom has begun
- Y3 W41🌍 Global Travel Boom has begun
- Y3 W32🌊 Natural Disaster has passed
Alliances
- Prime Meridian — 1 member airline
World rules
- Founding capital: $4.5M for a new airline ($4.0M at the world's opening, scaled with the era).
- 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.
- Crew pipeline: on — hiring has a lead time and an understaffed operation degrades.
- Rival one-stops: on — rivals sell connections over their hubs in every market.
Opened Sep 3, 2026 · ends Apr 7, 2027.
Found an airline in Piston Age →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.