Air France / KLM Virtual Airlines

Welcome to Air France / KLM Virtual Airlines's web site. We are a group of flight simulation enthusiasts who fly Air France and its alliance partners' routes using Microsoft's Flight Simulator 2002, 2004 or Flight Simulator X (including Steam Edition), as well as Laminar Research X-Plane and Lockheed-Martin's Prepar3D. We are in no way affiliated with Air France.

Since May 2003, we have received over 1,615,649 visits and received 47,780,182 hits. During this time, our servers have sent out over 1,521,007,526,593 bytes worth of data. Our members have posted over 33 messages in our discussion forums in the past 24 hours. Our web server has been running for 20 days , 3 hours and 53 minutes.

Please feel free to browse around our web site. Once you join Air France / KLM Virtual Airlines' active pilot roster, you may submit flight reports and contribute to our image library. If you are interested in a serious virtual airline, designed for both the experienced pilot and the novice (and all of us that are in between!) we welcome your interest. Click Here to join Air France / KLM Virtual Airlines.

If you are interested in a virtual airline with primarily North American operations, we encourage you to visit our sister airline Delta Virtual Airlines.

09/11/2016	We are hiring: New A320 Assistant Chief Pilot Opening!	Silvian Baltac
Dear Pilots, We are pleased to announce the opening of a new A320 Assistant Chief Pilot position. As ACP you will get the chance to help the AF/KLM Virtual Airlines pilots in training, grade checkrides and pilot reports, and help improve the A320 Program. This is a responsible position as the A320 program is one of our entry programs, where some pilots may need a lot of support whereas others quickly progress to higher-stage programs. We thus encourage all pilots with the relevant experience on the A320, A330 and/or A340 to consider applying to this staff-entry position. To review the eligibility criteria and requirements, please have a look here: https://www.afva.net/job.do?id=0x2b . Applications must be submitted online and must contain the minimal required number of words. We wish all applicants the very best of luck and look forward to reading your applications. Brian Hankey Silvian Baltac Fabien Bergeret Senior Staff Air France/KLM Virtual Airlines
08/20/2016	New AFVA EVP of Operations	Brian Hankey
All - As you may be aware, I recently reluctantly accepted the resignation of Paul Hale from his position as EVP Operations. Fabien and I opened a candidate search to the whole airline so as to possibly find that diamond in the rough, however it was determined that the best candidate for the position was already a member of staff. Silvian Baltac has graciously accepted to step up to fill the really big shoes left behind by Paul. In return, Paul will remain with the staff as a CP of the A330 program. Please join me in welcoming Silvian to the Senior Staff team and again thanking Paul for the fantastic job he has done in the last few years.
07/16/2016	Vacancy For Vice President of Operations.	Paul Hale
As you may have seen already with our previous news entry, we are shortly going to need a new Vice President of Operations to replace the departing Paul Hale who is stepping down due to real world commitments. Details of this vacancy can be found here: https://www.afva.net/job.do?id=0x2a If you wish to apply for this position please look at the entry requirements and the conditions of applying carefully before submitting your application. All applications MUST be made online and MUST contain a statement with a MINIMUM of 500 words (No Maximum) to accompany your application. We wish all applicants the very best of luck and look forward to reading your applications. Brian Hankey Fabien Bergeret Paul Hale Senior Staff Air France Virtual Airlines
07/16/2016	Vice President Of Operations Is Stepping Down.	Paul Hale
Dear Pilots and Staff It is with a heavy heart that I have tendered my resignation from AFVA senior staff and that Brian Hankey has accepted this resignation. My real world work commitments have escalated considerably in the past six months and a new exciting position within my company has been made available for me to start very soon which will require even more of a time commitment from me and as such this will restrict the time I can dedicate to AFVA further still hence my making this very difficult decision. I can look back at the three and a half years that I have served as Senior staff with great pride and have some excellent and rewarding memories from my time here but now is the time for an injection of fresh blood to take over the head of operations role, someone who can dedicate the time and commitment needed for us as a virtual airline to succeed and grow moving forward. I will remain as staff in some capacity (and occasionally when time permits be able to contribute by grading a flight or two) although the exact role I will play has yet to be decided. I will also continue to assist Brian and Fabien as much as time will allow with the day to day management of the airline until my replacement has been found. A career opportunity will shortly be made available for the position of Vice President of Operations and I would invite any of you that feel you have what it takes and the time commitment required to apply for the position. I would like to thank all of the pilots for their professionalism and commitment to AFVA and without you all we would not exist, we have recently done a huge schedule overload that is still work in progress to make this VA the best it can possibly be, If any of you know anybody interested in joining us, please get them on board to make us bigger and more successful moving forward. Finally, I would like to thank all of our staff members both existing and old for the amazing jobs that you all do/have done on a voluntary basis, the support I have received from the staff team and the passion you have shown for this wonderful virtual airline has been nothing short of sensational during my time with Senior staff and I am sure that will continue once I have left. Kind regards to you all Paul Hale Vice President of Operations
12/30/2015	A Warm Welcome To Three New Staff members.	Paul Hale
All, It is with great pleasure that we can announce three new members of staff to our team which for the first time in a while means we are fully staffed. Marcel Durieux has been selected to be our new Boeing 737 Assistant Chief Pilot. Daniel Seungmin Han has been promoted to the position of Assistant Chief Pilot in the Boeing 777 Program. Last but by no means least Mathias Lund has joined the events department as an Assistant Director to work with Zach Dupont who steps up to Director Of Events following the recent resignation of Robert Armstrong from that department. Congratulations to all three on these very well deserved promotions. Regards, Brian Hankey Paul Hale Fabien Bergeret AFVA Senior Staff

UPCOMING Air France / KLM Virtual Airlines ONLINE EVENTS
Oktoberfest Fly-In	VATSIM	10/01/2016 12:00 ET - 10/01/2016 17:00 ET	Amsterdam Netherlands (AMS) - Munich Germany (MUC)
Iraqi Independence Day Event 2016	VATSIM	10/03/2016 10:00 ET - 10/03/2016 16:00 ET	Cairo Egypt (CAI) - Baghdad Iraq (BGW)
Rotterdam - Manchester City Pair	VATSIM	10/09/2016 13:30 ET - 10/09/2016 16:00 ET	Rotterdam Netherlands (RTM) - Manchester United Kingdom (MAN)
The End of an Era	VATSIM	10/29/2016 05:30 ET - 10/29/2016 19:00 ET	Amsterdam Netherlands (AMS) - St Maarten Netherlands Antilles (SXM)

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