Game Description:
Airport Mania: First Flight puts you in the air traffic controller hot seat at the local airport. Do you have the skills to keep the planes on schedule and the passengers happy? Step up to the control tower and direct airport traffic in this high-flying Time Management game. Travel to 8 busy airports and land many kinds of cute planes. Buckle your seatbelt - a game of Airport Mania: First Flight is airborne fun!
Game size: 28.9 MB
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Review from: GameZebo

I could never do an air traffic controller's job - imagine the stress of having to schedule the flight paths of hundreds of giant flying pieces of metal so that they don't crash into each other, run out of fuel, or get behind schedule. South Winds Games and Reflexive figured out the fact that all this coordinating and juggling could make a decent time management game, and as it turns out, they were right.

Airport Mania: First Flight offers a nice change of pace in that for once you aren't controlling a pretty young girl. Instead, gameplay takes place in eight different airports across 84 levels where you'll be directing planes as they land, unload and load passengers and take off again - as well as painting, refuelling or making repairs as needed.

These actions are accomplished through some deft mouse-clicking and planning ahead. As a plane circles the airport, you can get it to land by clicking on a free runway. Then, you must taxi the plane over to a gate to unload passengers and pick up new ones. If the plane needs refuelling or repairs (as indicated by the appropriate icon flashing overhead), then you can direct it to the appropriate garage area. When finished, click on another free runway to make the plane take off and collect the last of your cash.

If things get especially hectic you can direct a place into a layover area to wait until a runway or gate frees itself up. Like Diner Dash, where you get bonus points for matching customers of a certain color to tables of the same color, you get a bonus multiplier in Airport Mania if you match a plane with the same colored gate. In later levels you earn the ability to paint planes a different color to keep your multiplier going. You can also pull off combo landings and take-offs by doing more than one of them in rapid succession on the same runway.

In between levels you can buy upgrades for the airport such as new and improved gates, runways and layover spaces, the ability to play an in-flight movie to make all circling planes happier or to serve food to please all grounded aircraft, short- and long-range radar to see which color of planes are approaching, and a fan to blow fog away. Interestingly, you can also sell back anything you've purchased at any time if you realize you don't need it after all or want to try a new strategy.
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Review from: Jay Is Games

Airport Mania from South Winds Games is a time management sim that drops all the trite settings and food-related themes we've grown tired of in the genre. Instead of serving cake or pizza or sandwiches, your job is to direct airplanes, load passengers, and make sure everything runs smoothly. All of this is accomplished with a simple interface and airplanes that are too cute for their own good. And unlike real airports, you can actually have flights arrive on time or even early!

Planes appear at the top of the screen, flying back and forth until you tell them which runway to land on. After touching down, direct planes to an empty gate where passengers are unloaded and new passengers boarded. Then it's back to the runway to take off once again. Sometimes a plane will need to re-fuel between groups of passengers, in which case you simply direct it to the repair station.

The basic structure of the game is simple and only a few events come along to change things around. Sometimes a plane will be carrying urgent cargo and must take priority over other flights, while other times weather conditions will alter your plans. Between each of the game's 84 levels you'll visit the store where you can buy new structures for your airport or upgrade existing ones to be faster/better.
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Review from: lucidlan

You will get money rewards everytime you land a plane, and service it on time without any problems, which one can use to upgrade the airport with more runways, VIP areas, and passenger’s dispatch areas.

There is a lot of variation of planes which a user can get in the airspace of the airport which have individual patience level, if you leave airplanes in the flying on top of your airport or you leave them waiting for a long time in the airstrip, you will loose the sale which will stop you from reaching the daily quota.

LucidLAN recommends this game for the full fun and enjoyment that Reflexive Entertainment has put in Airport managment all packed in the upcoming Airport Mania. Airport Mania is schedule for release in April 2008
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Review from: Game Mile

So, hopefully, you are ready to take up a job with a high responsibility level. You are going to be an air traffic controller. You'll work in 8 different airports that take over 80 levels of crazy and hectic dicision making.

Your job is to land the planes on free runways, that you get it to a gate to unload the passangers and pick up the new ones. The planes may sometimes need some repairs or refueling. In this case you take them to a special garage area.

I guess you understand that this all becomes very chaotic soon. It means that you are to plan ahead and make quick decisions. You can line up the actions by clicking on the appropriate items. Whenever you change your mind you can cancel the action any time.
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