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Sick of the old "fly these routes" or "fly this route" attitude with the other virtual airlines? Here at Vortex, we strive to be the always changing, always inventive virtual airline. Not only do we have your standard Passenger and Cargo Divisions, we also have a Corporate Division, Special Operations Division, Subsidiary Divisions and many more! You are free to fly whatever route whenever you want, as long as you abide by a few simple rules. Vortex features many extra utilities to help make your flying experience much more fun, such as: a custom ACARS system, FSPassengers Flight Logging, a Teamspeak server, and much much more! Click Here To Join Today!!!
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Come fly with us in the beautiful clear skies of Alaska... Ok ok that's not entirley true but who wants clear skies anyway! Do some wild bush flying with one of our 70 plus scheduled daily flights to destinations like Anchorage, Anvik, Barrow, Cordova, Eek, Fairbanks, Homer, Red Devil, Sleetmute just to name a few. We are adding new destinations all the time and creating one-off missions for off airport operations. So come on up and enjoy the wonderful mountain scenery... Stay tuned for more information.
Operation Eastwind
Posted by Eoin Coates on 02/02/2012
This year's Operation Eastwind hosted by Vortex Airlines and Westwind Airlines will take place from next Monday the 6th and on to the 26th of Feburary. The event will stretch over 3 locations (USA, Europe and Turkey). The first week will be spent flying cargo around the US to the first hub Boston, that weekend we will fly the cargo to the Vortex hub in Dublin. We will then fly cargo from Europe to Dublin. That weekend we will fly to Turkey and then finally the last week will be spent sending the cargo around Eastern Turkey. More info can be found here: http://www.flywestwind.com/flightops/eastwind_main.asp Vortex pilots can fly these flights and log them as flight number VTXEW. If you have any questions please just email us at admin@vortexvirtual.com.
Happy Christmas!
Posted by Eoin Coates on 12/25/2011
On behalf of all the Management here in Vortex we'd like to wish all our pilot's, visitors and friends a very Merry Christmas and we hope you have a great 2012! As always our door is always open and we hope Santa brought you tons of new Flight Sim goodies to play with in Vortex colours in the New Year!
Congratulations Guys!
Posted by Eoin Coates on 12/21/2011
A few congratulations are in order today. Firstly I'd like to introduce our new latest additions to the management team! Ivo Kneepkens has joined us at Operations Manager and will be responsible for maintaining the maintenece of our fleet, the Fractional Ownership program and our Once-Off Charter System. He can be contacted at ops@vortexvirtual.com. Note this email address is not active yet but hopefully will be shortly. The second addition to our management team is Jay Collie! Jay has taken up the position of Pilot Liason Officer here at Vortex and will be responsible for all new hires and dealing with pilot problems and queries. He can be contacted at @vortexvirtual.com. Thanks to all who applied, there were loads of great applicants and deciding on suitable candidates was a tough process! We hope you all will continue to fly with Vortex and enjoy the experience!
Finally I would like to congratulate all the recipients of the new 50, 100, 250 and 500 hour awards! Graham Dawson was the only non-Manager to pick up the 500 hour award so a huge congrats to you Graham! Sam Rosko and Matt Halfpenny picked up the 250 hour award so congrats to you guys as well! Congrats to Steve Martin, Brent Brazeel, Ivo Kneepkens, James Denkhoff and Ed Lee who picked up the 100 hour award and finally to Scott Cote, Colin Biedenkapp, Austin Steenport and S Roger Williams who picked up the 50 hour awards! Congrats to you all and thanks for all your time given to the airline over the past 9 months.
Operational NOTAMs 2011-12-18
Posted by Eoin Coates on 12/18/2011
Passenger Division:
We have increased our fleet of 747-8Is, 737-700 to 4, ERJ-145s to 9, and our A319 and A320 to 2. We have added 6 new flights:
VTX823 Miami, FL (KMIA) - Nashville, TN (KBNA) ERJ-145 (N219VT) - Daily
VTX824 Nashville, TN (KBNA) - Miami, FL (KMIA) ERJ-145 (N219VT) -Daily
VTX829 Miami, FL (KMIA) - Cancun, Mexico (MMUN) A319-136 (N541VT) - Daily
VTX830 Cancun, Mexico (MMUN) - Miami, FL (KMIA) A319-136 (N541VT) - Daily
VTX831 Miami, FL (KMIA) - Punta Cana, Puerto Rico (MDPC) A319-136 (N541VT) - Daily
VTX832 Punta Cana, Puerto Rico (MDPC) - Miami, FL (KMIA) A319-136 (N541VT) - Daily
All our E170s, E190s, A340-600s, A380-800s, B737-300s and our lone MD-88 have been retired, sold or scrapped.
Cargo Division
We have increased our fleet of 747-8Fs to 5, 727-200Fs to 22 and our B1900Cs to 10.
No new services have been added.
All our 747-200Fs, 737-300Fs, and ATR42-200Fs have been retired, sold or scrapped.
Operational NOTAMs 2011-12-15
Posted by Eoin Coates on 12/15/2011
Passenger Division
Six new flights added to our route network:
VTX778 Calgary, Canada (CYYC) - Oakland,CA (KOAK) 737-7VX (N737VT) - Daily
VTX779 Oakland,CA (KOAK) - Calgary,Canada (CYYC) 737-7VX (N737VT) - Daily
VTX788 Miami,FL (KMIA) - Washington Ronald Reagan,DC (KDCA) 737-7VX (N125VT) - Daily
VTX789 Washington Ronald Reagan,DC (KDCA) - Miami,FL (KMIA) 737-7VX (N125VT) - Daily
VTX814 Miami,FL (KMIA) - Sao Paulo Guarlhous,Brazil (SBGR) A340-236 (N703VT) - 3 flights per week
VTX815 Sao Paulo Guarlhous,Brazil (SBGR) - Miami,FL (KMIA) A340-236 (N703VT) - 3 flights per week
There has also be an operational upgrade of VTX93,94,95,96 (KMIA-KLAX-PHNL). This service has been increased to a Daily service.
All EMB170s, EMB190s and A340-600s have now been retired. They have been replaced as follows:
EMB170-ERJ145, B737-600
EMB190-B737-700
A340-600-B777-200LR, A340-200, B767-300ER
Further retirements will be made in the next two weeks but no services will be directly effected and all scheduled services will run as scheduled.
