Airlines (1990)

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Designer	Alan R. Moon
Artist	Christian Schütte
Publisher	ABACUSSPIELE
Year Published	1990
# of Players	2 − 6
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 4 players Recommended with 4, 5, 6 players (3 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	90 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	12 and up (1 voter) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (1 voter) [poll]
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Subdomain	Strategy Games (7 voters) [vote]
Category	Aviation / Flight Economic
Mechanic	Route/Network Building Stock Holding
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Expands
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Primary Name	Airlines
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This is the progenitor of Union Pacific. The game is similar to the Sid Sackson classic, Acquire, in that players are competing to become majority stockholders in several highly-abstracted companies. Each turn, a player chooses from one of two actions: expand an airline and put stock into his hand, or play stock from his hand. The trick is that when a scoring card shows up (randomly), only played stock counts as a player's holdings.

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Airlines

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Publisher: ABACUSSPIELE

Artist: Christian Schütte

Year: 1990

Size: Long Rectangle (e.g. Power Grid)

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3	General I have UP. Do I need Airlines?	2007-11-21	tweetlebe...	1
0	Rules Airlines and laying down stock	2005-06-08	db3000	0
0	General Canadian cities on map...	2005-04-29	kennyb	0
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7	Reviews User Review	2000-07-09	derk	0

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Thoughts from the EGG head Comparison of Airlines, Union Pacific and Airlines Europe

by Chief EGG head

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Standard Recommendations
Bazaar	Dampfross	Hattrick	Energie Poker
Attila	Janus	Career Poker	El Caballero
Hare & Tortoise	Shark

Weak Recommendations
Löwenherz	Stephensons Rocket	Big City	1830: Railways & Robber Barons
Manhattan	Wacky Wacky West	Mü & More	Union Pacific

Very Weak Recommendations
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English Rules - alternate translation

Airlines is a good game, but it's original English rules translation is a little awkward. This is my attempt to re-write the rules to make them easier to read and use. Ref thread: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/389411

oudknoei

2009-04-27

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English Rules

b0ardgamer

2004-03-22

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German review - Spieleteufel	http://www.spieleteufel.de/spiel.php?id=11	2012-03-10
Dutch rules	http://spelarch.khbo.be/PDFspelregels/315.pdf	2011-12-02
Dutch review on speldatabase.be	http://speldatabase.be/spelinfo.php?id=315&zoekcri...	2011-12-02
German review at spielphase.de	http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/keirat/tx...	2010-08-09
English Review on Spotlight on Games	http://spotlightongames.com/list/nights/a.html#air...	2010-03-02
Review from the Game Report Online Website	http://www.gamereport.com/tgr6/airlines.html	2001-11-02
Review by Mike Siggins in Ken Tidwell's Game Cabinet	http://www.gamecabinet.com/sumo/Issue3/Airlines.ht...	2001-11-02
Review by Bob Rossney in Ken Tidwell's Game Cabinet	http://www.gamecabinet.com/reviews/Airlines.html	2001-11-02