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MetroAir Virtual Appoints New East Coast Operations Director and Adds New Routes

editor — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:04:04 +0000

ROMULUS, MI, February 24th 2010 – Today Kim Gesch, Chief Operating Officer for MetroAir Virtual presented Cody Wilson as the new East Coast Operations Director. Wilson only joined MetroAir Virtual October 31st, 2009, but has evolved rapidly and was seeking ways of contributing more to the airline. MetroAir Virtual is very happy that Wilson gladly accepted the position he had been offered. In his new position as East Coast Operations Director he will be responsible for managing the schedules for both Washington, DC and Fort Lauderdale, FL operations.

Together with COO, Kim Gesch the newly appointed East Coast Operations Director is pleased to announce that, after extensive evaluation of the potential markets to be served from Kansas City, service flights to Detroit, Indianapolis, Memphis, Oklahoma City and New Orleans are available as of today.

Both regional and mainline services have been analyzed to provide optimum benefit to the entire MetroAir network. Prior to Hurricane Katrina, MSY served 9.7 million passengers per year, nearly all of them non-connecting. In 2009, it served 7,781,678 passengers, representing a decrease of 2.3% over the previous year. CEO Matt Calsada believes MetroAir will also benefit greatly from the addition to the network and hopes the addition will also benefit New Orleans in increasing it’s businesses.

Visit MetroAir Virtual at: www.metroairvirtual.com

Eagle Wings Virtual Optimizes Operations

editor — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:27:04 +0000

Following the recent economic downfall and a period of negative growth for Eagle Wings a decision has been made to optimize and consolidate our operations.

The first step in this process is the implementation of a minimum flight rule. Affective 01.10.2009. all Eagle Wings pilots will be obligated to fly at least ONE flight using VAFS in a period of 60 days. Any pilot not following this rule will be made inactive after this period and will have an additional 30 days to contact the management to reactivate its status. If a pilot does not reactivate his/hers status he/she will be permanently deleted from the rooster of Eagle Wings. Any pilot is free to ask for an limitless “Leave of absence”(LOA) by contacting any member of the management team. Pilot on LOA will not be affected by this rule.

Also in an attempt to lower the monthly maintenance and staff costs a switch to a more uniform fleet will be made. In the next couple months most of our fleet including the Beechcraft 1900D, King Air 300, Dash Q-300, Fokker 70, Embraer 170, Cirrus SR-22 and the Cessna Citation X will be returned to our lessor and exchanged for a more standardized fleet.

Also in the next few months we will be taking deliveries of our revitalized fleet consisting of Airbus (330-200, 340-300 series), Boeing (757-200, 767-300 series) and McDonnell Douglas (MD-80) aircraft from our lessor, which in addition to the previously leased A320, 737-800, 747-400, MD-11 and ATR 72-500 will be repainted into our new livery.

With this change in our fleet the academy program will be put on hold until a satisfactory training program is being made.

With regards,
Ivan Ozvatic

CEO Eagle Wings Virtual

www.eaglewingsvirtual.com

Delta VA pilots have better weather

editor — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:13:41 +0000

Today Delta Virtual Airlines announced a pioneering breakthrough in the graphical display of meteorological data. This week, the airline integrated a “future radar” product into all aspects of its industry-leading ACARS infrastructure. Now, Delta Virtual (and Air France Virtual) pilots, web site visitors and dispatchers can see projected radar imagery for the continental United States in 15 minute increments up to six hours in the future.

“Experienced pilots understand that weather is the one of the most challenging aspects of aviation, that can turn a sedate flight into a terrifying experience. For inter-continental flights, weather patterns influence flight routing and fuel burn, ” a spokesperson told reporters.

“Because of this, Delta Virtual and Air France Virtual have become industry leaders in making the latest weather data available to our pilots and dispatchers,” he added.

The airline is also updating its pilot reporting and flight management software, called Dispatch. Future version includes auto-dispatch, giving pilots access to the same route database and fuel planner as dispatchers even when dispatch services are offline.

Visit Delta VA at http://www.deltava.org/

Your Perception switches to new operations platform

editor — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:45:01 +0000

Your Perception today announced that the VA successfully achieved to integrate a new operations platform in the Virtual airline. The management decided to switch to VAfinancials, because of its easiness of use for our pilots and the realism provided.

The VA has become even more professional and we are doing our best effort to run smoothly, ” CEO Frank van Soldt told reporters. He continues, “in the upcoming months our schedule manager will add flights all over the world within the financial and operational capacity boundaries. Pilots can suggest new destinations and flights.”

The airline currently has hubs in Amsterdam, Seoul, Singapore, Las Vegas, New York, Sydney, Johannesburg, Santiago, San Juan and Dubai.

“Our management and pilots are looking forward to become a financially healthy and growing virtual airline, ” Mr van Soldt adds.

To visit Your Perception, go to http://www.yourperception.nl/