Air Midwest Virtual Now Hiring – Pilot / Executive Positions Available
Air Midwest Virtual is a brand new airline in the Virtual Airline world created in December of 2013. We are currently in the rebuilding stage and are looking for dedicated Pilots and Executive Staff to help Air Midwest become one of the best virtual airlines ever created! CEO Trey Niemyer is very experienced with Virtual Airlines as he has been the CEO at another major Virtual Airline, and was the CEO of Cargo Operations at Verazano Virtual, one of the most well known virtual airlines ever. Air Midwest Virtual flies 2 regional aircraft, Saab 340B based out of Sioux Gateway Airport (KSUX) and a CRJ 700 based out of Des Moines International Airport (KDSM). Our 5 main aircraft include: Boeing 737-700, Airbus A321, Airbus A320, MD80, ERJ 175. We have custom liveries coming for all of those aircraft in the very near future! We are based out of Des Moines, Iowa at the Des Moines International Airport and also have one hub in Sioux City, Iowa at Sioux Gateway Airport for our Saab 340B aircraft. At Air Midwest we fly to over 50 destinations in the United States and also to Toronto, Canada. We also have one seasonal route to St. Maartin (TNCM) during the winter months. Want to be apart of something very special?
Check out our website tniemyer.wix.com/air-midwest and apply today!
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Canadian Xpress January 2014 Challenge: Olympic Spirit Part I
With the start of the New Year, it also brings the hype of the final countdown to the 22nd Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
The first winter Olympics was held in Chamonix, France in 1924. The original sports were alpine and cross-country skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic combined, ski jumping and speed skating. The Games were held every four years from 1924 until 1936, after which they were interrupted by World War II. The Olympics resumed in 1948 and were celebrated every four years. The Winter & Summer Olympic Games were held in the same years until 1992, after a 1986 decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to place the Summer & Winter Games on separate four-year cycles in alternating even-numbered years. Because of the change, the next Winter Olympics after 1992 were in 1994.
So to celebrate and support the athletes that will be heading to Continue reading
SmartJet Opens New Website!
SmartJet Virtual is pleased to announce that we have taken off into 2014 with some great new upgrades to our airline! After having our old phpVMS site hacked, and having to shut down for some time, we are now officially back in action, and we are better than ever, serving 50+ destinations across Canada and the United States, and operating a fleet of 53 Boeing 737-700 aircraft with 13 Boeing 737-800′s on order along with 2 Boeing 787-8′s to serve farther destinations such as travel destinations in the Caribbean and select destinations in Europe. As we had to start our airline out fresh after the hacking, we are very low on pilots and are always looking for new pilots!
You can check us out at www.flysmartjet.net
Platinum Airways Goes for Liftoff
Platinum Airways, the very virtual Open Skies airline, is starting the new year with Liftoff. The new Destination of the Week series will visit airfields that service the most important launch centres of the four leading space powers: the United States, Russia, the European Union and China.
Platinum Airways’ first Destination of the Week series of the year is a powerful one. Liftoff pays tribute to the four leading global space powers, the United States, Russia, the European Union and China. In the next four weeks, DOTW will visit the airfields that service the world’s most important space travel launch installations. Liftoff 1 will visit Cape Canaveral with two airfields: the US Air Force’s Cape Canaveral AFS Skid Strip (KXMR) and NASA’s Shuttle Landing Facility (KTTS). The second week consists of a visit to Baikonur, the main Russian launch installation in Kazakhstan, with Yubileyniy (UAON) and Krayniy (UAOL). The third Liftoff will visit the launch pad used by the European Space Agency, Kourou in French Guyana, and its airport QKR (that doesn’t have an ICAO code). And we end our series with a visit to the Jiuquan Continue reading
flyeuro Hopeful to Improve Traffic Numbers
flyeuro traffic has taken a dive since September, however it is believed that this is typical for the time of the year. The industry experts have criticised flyeuro for not taking advantage of the demise of the low-cost giant, Virtual Ryanair. The airline officials however believe that there is no reason to be alarmed, and assure that operations carry on as usual.
Few days ago, flyeuro’s website received an image refresh. It is now more interactive, simpler to use, intuitive and free of clutter. flyeuro’s technology department has been also busy with developing an interactive route map, and a mobile version of the site. “We want the user to
associate the words ‘flexible’ and ‘simple’ with us. It’s what we are about.” – said Kamil Bonczyk, flyeuro’s CEO. The website now also features Christmas seasonal motives.
Today, the airline sent out a press release, wishing their pilots Merry Christmas, while placing an early Christmas present under the tree. It was unveilved that Liverpool operations will be scaled back in favour of the more popular London Gatwick hub, and Manchester will have
a few new routes. After an unsuccessful Scandinavian hub launch in Stockholm, flyeuro routes out of Arlanda will be more “Scandinavian” as quoted per press release. This includes new routes to Helsinki and Copenhagen. In an attempt to boost interest and traffic, the low-cost airline will also operate to new places from Berlin Schonefeld and Rotterdam, launching routes to Bordeaux, Basel, and most surprisingly and unexpectedly Continue reading
Canadian Xpress December 2013 Challenge – Sunwing Direct
This month’s challenge was submitted by Phil Power (CXA872) who lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where in the winter months Sunwing tours shows up with a Boeing 737-800 and operates weekly direct flights to Veradero, Cuba. This is the longest direct flight that operates out of Fredericton where normally Toronto and Montreal are the only long haul direct flights out of Fredericton.
This month, your job is to pack up all the sun screen you can find and load up the Canadian Xpress® Boeing 737-900 (as we don’t have a 738) which is available to all pilots regardless of rank, but only for the challenge in Fredericton (CYFC) with a bunch of pasty white Continue reading
Platinum Airways says Oops!
Platinum Airways, the very virtual Open Skies airline, says Oops … at the end of the year. Inspired by the recent unexpected diversion of a Dreamliner in Wichita, its final Destination of the Week series remembers five flights that didn’t land at the filed airport.
As 2013 is drawing to a close, Platinum Airways’ Destination of the Week series is joining the party. The December series, Oops …, is a cheeky one: inspired by the recent remarkable landing of a Dreamlifter at Jabara Airport (KAAO), a small airfield near Wichita instead of at its filed airport (McConnell AFB or KIAB), DOTW goes back in time and retrieves five similar incidents. The most recent one on the December list is the C17 Globemaster who was filed to land at McDill AFB (KMCF), but touched down unannounced at Peter O’Knight (KTPF) on 20 July 2012. Our second Oops … takes us to Northern Ireland: on 29 March 2006, a Ryanair flight operated by Eirjet was supposed to land at Derry (EGAE), but the A320 made it to Shackleton Barracks (EGQB), an AFB near Ballykelly, Co Londonderry. Luckily, the passengers only had a 5 mi bus transfer. The next one is a Northwest A319, scheduled to land at Rapid City (KRAP) but touched down at Ellsworth AFB (KRCA) on 19 June 2004. Our fourth Oops … was a Saudi 747 destined for Madras International (VOMM), now known as Chennai International, but landed at Tambaran Air Force Station (VOTX) on 2 June 1997. And we end Oops … with the case of a United 757, destined for Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (TJSJ) near San Juan, Puerto Rico, but landed at Isla Grande Airport (TJIG) on Continue reading
