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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 | Asteria Air | MIA | — | 5 | 2 | $1.7M | $7k |
| 2 | Butter Air | ORY | — | 2 | 2 | $1.7M | $1.2M |
| 3 | Pinguin Airlines | LHR | — | 3 | 2 | $1.7M | $236k |
| 4 | Tunisulan Air Service | KUL | — | 2 | 2 | $1.7M | $286k |
| 5 | Aer Smaragaid | DUB | — | 6 | 2 | $1.7M | $216k |
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.
- Y1 W1✈️ Aer Smaragaid ordered 10× Douglas DC-4
- Y1 W1✈️ Tunisulan Air Service ordered 5× Convair CV-240
Alliances
No alliances have formed here yet.
World rules
- Founding capital: $2.0M 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.
- 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 24, 2026.
Found an airline in Timely Takeoff →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.