Airport CEO
The first 3 hours are a test
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (53%); after 20h it's 1 in 8 (13%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- The opening is criticised more than in 81% of games we track.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 64% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 8,420 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 29.9h for positive, 14.4h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (64.5% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (35)
story milestone ending side
- Taking off Have your first aircraft depart from an airport 100%
- Small airfield Turnaround 25 aircraft in one day 80%
- And I would fly 500 miles Depart 500 GA aircraft 53%
- Novice CEO Have an airport with more than 500 current passengers with a passenger rating above 80% 50%
- Avian veterinarian Repair a broken aircraft 49%
- Regional airport Turnaround 75 aircraft in one day 46%
- "When is the next dev blog?" 45%
- Take me to your heaven Depart 1000 commercial aircraft 44%
- Hilma af Klint Color a vehicle 34%
- The luxury trap Fully pay back a loan 34%
- Do a barrel roll! Perform a turnaround including all services 32%
- The scientist Complete all R&D projects 30%
- Nouveau riche Have a net worth of $10 000 000 29%
- Interim CEO Have an airport with more than 2500 current passengers with a passenger rating above 80% 24%
- There and back again Reroute 10000 bags using tilt trays 23%
- 0.005 million Depart 5000 GA aircraft 16%
- The explorer Load an airport from Steam Workshop 14%
- Or… a CEO! Have an airport with more than 5000 current passengers with a passenger rating above 80% 13%
- Life at the lab Staff happiness above 90% with a staff force of above 100 13%
- Behemoth of the skies Succesfully turnaround an A380 12%
- Over 9000!!! Depart 10000 commercial aircraft 12%
- Queen of the skies Succesfully turnaround a 747 12%
- Cruising altitude Have a total rating of 95% or higher 7.3%
- Travel to executive bathroom island 6.5%
- Young successfull entrepreneur Depart 500 000 passenger via aircraft 5.6%
- Mr Robot 4.8%
- International hub Turnaround 200 aircraft in one day 4.2%
- The collector Land every aircraft type in the game 2.5%
- Serial entrepreneur 1.6%
- The Airport CEO Win the Airport of the Year Award 1.4%
- Unionize! Staff happiness below 10% with a staff force of above 100 0.8%
- X-ray vision Manually scan 750 000 bags 0.6%
- Actually president of the company Have a net worth of $100 000 000 0.5%
- I've grinded for this view Depart 50 000 000 passenger via aircraft 0.3%
- Wilhelm Röntgen Manually scan 75 000 000 bags 0.3%