1 May 2003
To All Of Our Pilots,

April was yet another exciting month for us. We set new records in flight hours, total pilots, applications, new pilots, flying pilots, and PIREPs. In short, an excellent month. Delta narrowly beat its previous record for most PIREPs in a month by one of our virtual airlines, and our growth in April was fueled by Alaska, Northwest, and Swissair.

Concorde Virtual Opening This Month
Concorde Virtual was announced two weeks ago as a virtual airline based solely on the operations of the Concorde in real life throughout its history. We are still on target for opening the new virtual airline later this month.

Los Angeles Chosen for Third Fly-In
Our third fly-in for SimAirline.net will take place at Los Angeles on May 10. Details are available here. Our fourth fly-in is tentatively planned for Brussels, although Amsterdam and London are possible alternates.

Alaska Regional Operations Added
The operations of Era Aviation and PenAir have been added to Alaska Airlines Virtual. Both are regional airlines that operate exclusively within the state of Alaska to smaller aiports than Alaska Airlines can serve, and exclusively with turboprop service.

Second Screenshots Contest of 2003
After a successful first screenshot a month ago, we now have enough screenshots for our second contest of the year.

Possible Disruption of Service
Because I will be moving to a small town between Minneapolis/St. Paul and Rochester, MN in late August or early September, as well as obtaining a new computer to base SimAirline.net's operations from, there may be some disruption of service for up to a week. Changes occuring at that time will involve email addresses for myself and other members of our management team, and we therefore may have to temporarily prevent applications and PIREPs from being submitted.

This Message from Aaron marks a full year of including this as part of our organization. I certainly hope that you appreciate this, and encourage you to contact me at any time.

Aaron Robinson
aaron.robinson@simairline.net
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