Do Not Buy, not the base game not the gold edition.
Lets start from the top, airline tycoon 1 was a cult classic one among the best tycoon games, you are a airline owner and have to manage your airline on various mission along with 3 other competitors. The first game did this perfectly with great humor and a wonderful gameplay , incorporating REAL planes and what not , its a masterpiece.....

So come to the present , Balive releases this horror as the sequel to the first game...by gods its horrible it totally ditched everything that made the first game great, Game runs on a rotten engine , doubt anyone would play it more than a hour, no Real plane names, No humor nothing just a bunch of guys with big Heads running around ackwardly.

To Pour more salt to the injury
-They implemented the suggestions made by the community as DLCs
-They are done with the game just repackaged it as gold edition , just check the forums the game is still horrible
-dont expect even cards for the game http://forum.kalypsomedia.com/showthread.php?tid=20275
-modding is bare minimum , a few exist but dont do much to improve the game

Avoid it , unless its on a massive sale if you want the real airline tycoon experience get the first game on gamersgate, Hope it comes to steam someday
http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-ATD/airline-tycoon-deluxe
Sad to see us the fans of classic get such a horrible sequel
Not so epic screenshots of the game...
http://steamcommunity.com/id/liquidsnakehpks/screenshots/?appid=201490&sort=newestfirst&browsefilter=myfiles&view=grid

I really liked first Airline Tycoon and so I have been looking forward for AT2. But this game is really dissapointment for me...

Airline simulator, obviously. The game offers a wide range of customization for your airline. I feel that the game uses too large a scale of cash, most time items cost 4,000,000 and you'll have 375,000,000. Why all the zeroes? Nothing ever costs that less. I can't really get into the game, the tutorial rushes past certain parts and I can't get a good handle on the schedules to assign planes to.

I've gotten some enjoyment out of this yes, and I have tried to make a campaighn out of this but yet the AI and just the diffculty sastifiying routes seems to VEX me. The learning curve on this game is quite high and to be sucessful is more trial and error. Also having to "walk" your avatar when the clock is ticking to different departments gets tedious and quite boring. The game has it's moments but there is something to be said about too much micromanagment. If your one to love Excel spreadsheets and plan in the future a love of how to manage an airline then this is the game for you. Other then that nothing about this game especially screams fun.

A boring non-intuitive game with really slow-paced gameplay, they had a good opportunity to make an unusual simulator game with this one, but sadly they squandered that opportunity.