Player news

[OrangeAir]

Orange Air starts a new way for aquiring contracts

Contracts are the bread and butter for operating Airports in WOA, but getting them can be a challenge in the competing environment that WOA is right now. So new ways are sought to expand operations and Orange Air proudly announces such a new approach.

For some time the “Random Player Arrival” can be selected from the “Contracts” button.

This offers an airplane visit from a random player. Orange Air provides E190’s and B752F’s from BKK to MCT and NGO for these random player events. The planes are in AWA “Ambassador” livery.

A player receiving such a plane is offered a contract for that plane when planetype, aircraft registration and airport is reported back to Orange Air by Direct Message in this forum.

Orange Air also accepts an equivalent connection request from the player. In this way new and spontaneous connections can be established.

So, start hitting that Search button at MCT and NGO!

[Jamesonplanes]

JJet have announced new updates of the airline to be placed not only on the forum but on youtube too! Heres their link: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesOnPlanes
(My yt channel won’t just be JJet but…)

[Jamesonplanes]

The last day of JJet in IAG
The last 24 hours of JJet being a member of IAG is here. JJet would like to say thanks to IAG and we would like to wish the alliance and it’s members good futures!
This also means it’s less then a day until the joining of Flexi!
JJet PRG delayed
In other news JJets new hub in Prague has been delayed until the 5th of December instead of the 1st. IAD is still set to open on the 1st.
SXM ops shut for final time.
All JJet ops have been shut from SXM officialy. The North American hub of JJet is now closed as IAD will be replacing it. The last flights were the 737Max8 from IAD and the A300 arriving at SXM for the final time from SAN.

That’s all the JJet news for today.

[ARGON]

Breaking News
Two B77Ws arrived at NGO and after routine maintenance one of the crafts experienced a software hiccup which resulted in faulty location positioning to ground control. “The two aircrafts looked like it was a Stare down”, for 15min said some folks in the terminal.

After a software reboot all continued on with a now Delayed flight status.

[Jamesonplanes]

JJet is Flexi!
JJet as of 6:45 (GMT) this morning JJet have officially resigned from IAG and has officially joined Flexi.
Here’s what was said:

IAD open
This also means the new north American hub IAD is open for business!
Bari on its last legs
With all the Bari based JJet aircraft now ITA’s they’ve been moved to Rome. This leaves Bari struggling for money. So JJet have decided to open a route from Prague to Bari next year.

[Ecoaviation]

Christmas season has started!

Today the first aircraft that completed it’s first flight to the North Pole was an Eco Aviation A320-200 (EI-CEQ) , flight EC990 left SNN at 1PM today to the North Pole to meet Santa and the elves on a arrival several Eco representative where on board the flight there and arrived back home at 5PM at night along with several elves to there children’s house for “elf on the shelf” monitoring, as well as this the first Air Greenland A330 arrived at SNN at 5PM at night from SFJ on flight GL761

Its rumoured to also carry elf on the shelf representatives which will be flying across the globe twice a day. Eco Avation CEO said “December will be a busy year for Eco as they are assigned a ton of tasks with are aircraft there was even a time today at ORK that we had to do a 25 - 30 min turnaround as it was very busy not only for our customers but also with our partners”
At least on the 25th of December the aircraft will take a brake from flying…

[WOAFan]

Belgium airline news

Belgium airlines have annouced to aquaire some planes from spirit after the airline went bankurpt it’s similar to how horsepower airline aqauired air domoliti
then the airline could make a 3rd franchies which will be diccused the propsal idea is, Belgium atlantic airlines.
Other News
Belgium cargo is now very busy as it’s getting ready for chirstmas

[Jamesonplanes]

There still in operation and they’re just, if im correct,closing temporarily for Q1 of 2024

[Ecoaviation]

Have you been told multiple times to stop using one word response? The community is really getting fed up of you answering just 1 word

New Airline Liveries and Aircraft - North/Central America

I’m getting fed up of telling you now, stop it with the one word responses. They are getting really annoying now. The like button acts as that function, like a post instead of posting just one word.

[WOAFan]

sigh
I keep forgetting to stop using one word responses I’ll try not to use one word response

[Jamesonplanes]

An emotional day for JJet
JJets 1st ever twin otter left this morning too rome. This concludes the deal between JJet and ITA. JJet italia is no more. Prague is scheduled to open in the coming days. This will be their new European hub.

(The last departure)

[horsepowergeek]

New month, new horsepower

With recent passenger numbers on the rise around the world for the holiday season, horsepower airlines has made a few changes to it’s fleet and network

First, new special liveries, which have been unveiled in name only. liveries such as the “inverse”, “Melrose”, and “fly high don”

On top of these incoming fleet changes, the airline has opened 25 routes in and out of Bari, connecting areas such as Alexandria and Heathrow in hopes of filling the gap that JJet Italia has left.

recent horsepower hub in Bari

[Jamesonplanes]

Well at least your there now

[Teddythefire]

FlyMetro announces surprise Christmas livery

FlyMetro recently announced a special 777 livery commentating the IAD remodel, with the first two planes reviving the livery still undergoing maintenance in PRG before the repainting.

It was a surprise when a FlyMetro A350 was spotted in Toulouse with a special Christmas livery:

When asked for comment the CEO said the IAD based A350 was being repainted for Christmas, and that two other aircraft would receive the same livery.

This is also the 10th A350 in FlyMetro’s fleet, confirming that they are taking delivery (at least some) of their option for up to an addition 25 aircraft for a total of 34. These aircraft are routes to BKK and SYD, with many aircraft flying through BKK to other airports like Calcutta and Colombo in Asia. Though BKK has not officially been declared a hub, the increased traffic leads many to expect a hub there is planned.

Special liveries from FlyMetro are flying in right now, and we wonder what’s next.

[horsepowergeek]

out with the new, in with the old

Today a shocking announcement was made by Horsepower air, as they announced they would be switching from the newest aircraft and management systems on the market, to their older system that they used for 20+ years beforehand.

“our new system crashed frequently and we noticed many issues, including ones that caused entire airport shutdowns”

• reference = IDA airport shutdown after many aircraft had duplicate signatures on radar

“our old system had these issues ironed out by the time we got it, and more than 90% of our staff are trained on it already, which makes it an easier switch”

This is just in time for the holiday season travel boom, and it seems to have worked, with more request horsepower air flights and less airport closures.

outback link seeing higher numbers in flights and passengers with the recent change

(in reality: I’ve literally “downgraded” phones so I could play WOA without it crashing on the lowest graphics settings, heres to hoping it doesn’t crash in this phone which somehow runs better even though it’s as old as I am)

[WOAFan]

Um it’s not ida it’s IAD unless if your talking about something else

[WOAFan]

Belgium airline news

Belgium airlines have annouced new destiations to france one of them is curently in operations London heathrow- mulhouse france
in other news belgium airlines annouces a speical flexi alliance chirstmas livery to be revelad on the 14th

[horsepowergeek]

I meant IDA

[Mith1234]

MithFly Australia’s New orders for new aircraft/MithFly Australia’s first ever Airbus A320 takes its first commercial flight

In recent news, MithFly Australia’s fleet expansion has just gotten bigger as MithFly Australia has made additional orders for new aircraft. This includes

3 Additional Airbus A320-216 aircraft featuring sharklets
5 Airbus A320-211(To be used for short-term and then retired)
3 Airbus A321-211(Two with wing-tips, another featuring sharklets)
5 Airbus A320 Neo aircraft(Airbus A320-251N)
3 Airbus A321 Neo aircraft(Airbus A321-252NX)

These aircrafts are an addition to the fleet renewal “Project Renew” which already contains the order of 5 new Airbus A319 Neo(Airbus A319-153N) and 12 Airbus A320-216 aircraft.

In recent news, MithFly has offically commenced the first ever Airbus A320 commercial flight in MithFly Australia and has successfully inaugurated the Sydney-Canberra route. VH-M3A took off from Sydney at 10:32am and landed in Canberra at 11:15am,commencing a new era of travel in Australia.

This new development has come in wake of the recent delivery of MithFly’s third Airbus A320-200, VH-M3C, which was however deviated to Melbourne by the airline, and landed at Melbourne Tullamarine airport at 11:41pm on the 3rd of December on Runway 16. The Airbus A320-216 has been spotted sitting at a remote stand on the outskirts of the airport’s area.

In the coming days, following the inaugural flight between Sydney and Canberra, testing will begin on the Melbourne-Sydney route. VH-M3C will be accompanied by VH-M3B on testing from
the,while VH-M3A will be the sole aircraft operating Sydney-Canberra flights daily until January 10th when the Sydney-Melbourne route will be inaugurated.

MithFly Australia’s CEO has also now opted to have it’s base at Sydney’s Terminal 2, sided alongside other Terminal 2 users like Regional Express, Jetstar and Virgin Australia.

However, during the Christmas Period, MithFly’s Embraer E170, which is used on the Sydney-Noumea route, is expected to go through maintenance, exiting from service on the 22nd of December and heading out to Singapore Seletan(XSP) for maintenance. The aircraft is expected to return to service at the start of 2025. During this period, MithFly has decided to use VH-M3B (Airbus A320)on the route during the Embraer’s absence. This will be the first time ever that the Airbus A320 is used on international flights within the airline. In the meantime, VH-M3D will also be delivered and will join VH-M3C on testing on flights between Sydney and Melbourne.

MithFly Australia flights into Melbourne will also be using Melbourne Airport’s Terminal 3, alongside Virgin Australia from January 10th 2025.

Flight testing between Sydney and Brisbane is expected to start from Mid to late January onwards.

[horsepowergeek]

bigger fleet, more destinations

Today, Outback Link’s first flight to Launceston was launched with their recently received atr 72-600, departing Sydney early yesterday morning. This new flight is yet another step in their expansion plan, with the airline also placing their first order for 2 A21NY aircraft. This also coming with a rumor of the airline receiving Horsepower Australia’s Twin Otters.

how many branches do you need

Horsepower airlines has announced yet another branch for their airline, what is this, the 8th?. Starlink, a luxury short range airline meant to compliment Evening Star flights. This new branch is “still in concept and could entirely be cancelled”, but it’s highly likely it will come as a additional package with the existing airline tickets.