Piston AgeLiveAlpha
Live standings for a 100-year Headwinds season running at 1 week / 1 hr. 5 player-run airlines competing.
Standings
| # | Airline | Hub | Alliance | Routes | Fleet | Market cap | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Air Express | ATL | — | 8 | 4 | $61.5M | $23.2M |
| 2 | Air wonderwall | DMK | — | 0 | 0 | $2.9M | $6.3M |
| 3 | Virtual Airlines | SFO | — | 0 | 0 | $1.0M | $2.3M |
| 4 | SM China | PVG | — | 0 | 0 | $33.6M | $57.2M |
| 5 | Tui | SGN | Join here | 0 | 0 | $4.0M | $8.3M |
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.
- Y26 W9📉 Gouda dropped out of the top 5
- Y26 W9📈 Tui climbed into the top 5 — now #5
- Y26 W9📉 Gouda has gone under
- Y26 W4🎄 Holiday Travel Surge has passed
- Y26 W2🚨 Political Unrest has passed
- Y26 W2🎄 Holiday Travel Surge has begun
- Y26 W1• Air Express year in review
- Y25 W50🌋 Volcanic Ash Cloud has passed
- Y25 W49🛑 Tui forfeited 1 gate at CAI — unused for too long, locked out for 24 weeks
- Y25 W47🛑 Tui forfeited 1 gate at ICN — unused for too long, locked out for 24 weeks
- Y25 W47🛑 Tui forfeited 1 gate at DXB — unused for too long, locked out for 24 weeks
- Y25 W46🛑 Tui forfeited 1 gate at PEK — unused for too long, locked out for 24 weeks
- Y25 W46🌋 Volcanic Ash Cloud has begun
- Y25 W45🛑 Tui forfeited 1 gate at JED — unused for too long, locked out for 24 weeks
- Y25 W45🚨 Political Unrest has begun
- Y25 W43☀️ European Summer Rush has passed
- Y25 W38🛑 Tui forfeited 1 gate at KIX — unused for too long, locked out for 24 weeks
- Y25 W38🛑 Tui forfeited 1 gate at HND — unused for too long, locked out for 24 weeks
- Y25 W35📉 Tui dropped out of the top 5
- Y25 W35📈 Air wonderwall climbed into the top 5 — now #2
- Y25 W34☀️ European Summer Rush has begun
- Y25 W32📉 Axolotl airlines dropped out of the top 5
- Y25 W32📈 Tui climbed into the top 5 — now #5
- Y25 W32📉 Axolotl airlines has gone under
- Y25 W28📉 Economic Downturn has passed
Alliances
- Join here — 1 member airline
World rules
- Founding capital: $8.1M 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, 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.