Platinum Airways to Assist Santa in December

Platinum Airways will be assisting Santa on his annual epic journey.  Throughout December, the very virtual Open Skies airline will fly presents made by the world’s leading manufacturers to Santa’s home airport and Platinum Airways will also have them delivered to chimneys all over the world for Christmas. Meet Ho ho ho – Platinum Airways’ December Destination of the Week series.

Platinum Airways’ December Destination of the Week series was inspired by an email by Santa. Due to supply chain problems, the holy man was unable to stock sufficient presents and he requested Platinum Airways to assist him. First and foremost, Santa looks after the little ones, and Platinum Airways’ solution was to organise flights between the world’s leading toy retailer’s headquarters and EFRO. The leading toy retailer is, of course, Toys “R” Us, headquartered not far from one of Platinum Airways’ hubs, Newark (KEWR). But Santa’s surviving modern times depends to a large degree on the Holy Man looking after mum and dad. For mum, Santa needed to stock up with supplies made by the world’s most valuable brand of luxury products, Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy. This means that the second Ho ho ho mission will take our pilots from Orly Airport (LFPO) to Rovaniemi. The third mission, aimed at dads, was equally straight forward: dads like IPhones, IPads, IPods and other ICatching gadgets. Apple, the world’s leading tech company, being located near San Jose, CA, the third mission will link KSJC and EFRO. The fourth and final Ho ho ho mission is probably the most rewarding one: Platinum pilots will deliver all those presents to kids, mums and dads close to their home town airport or the closest airport that is capable of handling flights from EFRO.

DOTW missions qualify for a 5% bonus if completed within the allotted time span. They come with charts, links to scenery files for FS9, FSX and X-Plane if available, and a selection of YouTube videos with approaches and take-offs.

About Platinum Airways:
Keen to deliver on its mission to keep the fun in the hobby, Platinum Airways is probably the only virtual airline to combine an Open Skies policy, allowing its pilots to fly any mission of their choice with the aircraft of their choice at the time of their choice, with a strategic hub network. The carefully selected hubs, Newark (KEWR), Dallas-Fort Worth (KDFW), Vancouver (CYVR), Perth (YPPH) and Brussels (EBBR), should be attractive to a global membership. In addition, Platinum Airways offers its pilots an often cheeky Destination of the Week, Relief, Military and Cargo missions and a soon to be launched Flight Dispatch division. Sticking to the KISS principle (Keep It Straight and Simple), Platinum Airways hosts an active forum and a screenshot of the week competition, with the winner providing the main picture on its home page for the next week.

For more information, please visit www.platinumairways.org or mail info [at] platinumairways.org.