How to open Adobe AIR rich Internet applications .air files
Have you had trouble opening the air file on your computer? What are air files? We explain what they are and recommend software that we know will open them.
What is air file?
Files with air extension are mainly associated with Adobe AIR runtime and used for Rich Internet Applications. Several Adobe application can work with air files.
Adobe AIR rich Internet applications description
File extension air is associated with Adobe AIR.
The Adobe AIR runtime lets developers use proven web technologies to build rich Internet applications that deploy to the desktop and run across operating systems.
The air file is installation package for Adobe AIR applications. To install AIR applications for .air installation package you must have installed Adobe AIR runtime in your operating system.
Adobe AIR is multi-platform solution, AIR applications can be written for desktop as well as portable operating systems.
Adobe AIR installation packages are used ZIP compression file format. You can rename air file extension to zip and view the content of AIR installation package in any compression utility that is able to open ZIP archives.
Mime types:
application/vnd.adobe.air-application-installer-package+zip
Suggested software to open air file

Adobe AIR
A runtime environment for rich internet applications
There are other AIR filename extensions with the same .air suffix
air - Flight Simulator aircraft performance data
An air file extension is related to the Microsoft Flight Simulator, a civil aircraft simulation computer game. An air file stores aircraft performance data.
air - M.U.G.E.N animation
An air file extension is related to the M.U.G.E.N video gaming engine. An air file stores animation data.
air - SeeYou airspace data
An air file extension is associated with the SeeYou, a flight planning software. An air file stores airspace data.