What you do
A flight is inbound and it has your stand number on it. You bring her in on the docking guidance, chock the nose gear, cone the wingtips, walk around her — and then work the turnaround: stairs or jetbridge, passengers off, ground power on, bags off and bags on, fuel, water, waste, catering, passengers back on, and a pushback onto the taxi line. You drive every machine yourself, and you fetch every one of them from the equipment yard, because on a real ramp the kit does not come to you.
Do it in the right order and she goes on time. Skip a step and the game says so — chocks before ground power, the stand clear before she is allowed onto it, the bridge off the door before anybody pushes her back.
Winter
When the snow comes down, a finished de-icing treatment only holds for so long. You work the boom from the cabin on the end of it: the first pass strips what is on her, the anti-ice coat is what has to still be there at the runway. Watch your coverage, watch the holdover clock, and get her off the stand before the weather takes back everything you sprayed.
The yard
Steps, belt loaders, bowsers and tractors live in the equipment yard in their marked bays. Getting them out, getting them positioned, and getting them clear again is a real part of the shift — and a machine left standing in the restraint area will stop the next flight coming onto the stand at all.
Weather
A continuous day-night cycle, rain that darkens the apron until the terminal lights swim in it, fog lying low over the grass at dawn, snow that keeps falling while you work. Weather is not a backdrop here: it changes your grip on the concrete, it slows the fluid going on, and it decides how long a treatment lasts.
The fire service
Sometimes it goes wrong. Fuel goes on the ground; a wing catches. You crew the airport tender, run it to the stand, and put water on the fire from the roof monitor — and afterwards you answer for how long it burned before the first water landed.
Alone, or with your crew
Online co-op puts a whole crew on one aircraft against one clock. Rooms are private by construction: the host gets a room code and shares it with the people they want on the stand. There is no public lobby and no server browser.
The plain facts
| Release date | 1 December 2026 |
| Price | $12.99 USD (regional pricing set from that base) |
| Platform | Windows (64-bit) |
| Languages | English, German, French, Spanish — interface and subtitles |
| Controller | Full controller support; keyboard and mouse equally supported |
| Players | Single player, and online co-op by private room code |
| Publisher | ARCADEBOX.AI (Ailora Limited) |
Steam page — coming soon. The store page at store.steampowered.com/app/5225300 is not published yet, so that link will not open until it is. This page is the game's home in the meantime.
Before you play
- The manual — the job, the turnaround step by step, de-icing, fires, every mode, and the full control list for keyboard and controller.
- Health & safety information — photosensitivity, motion comfort, breaks, hearing, and the in-game settings that help.
- Privacy policy — what we collect and what we do with it.
- Contact and support — if something is broken, tell us.
Everything in it is invented
Northstar International, Northstar Air and every other airline, aircraft, machine and radio call in this game are original creations. Nothing is based on, copied from, or endorsed by any real airline, airport, aircraft manufacturer or ground-handling company. The procedures are simplified for play and are not training material of any kind.