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Ladies and Gentlemen, it with great pleasure that I am able to announce the grand opening of Westwind's newest regional airline, Westwind Europa! Due to tireless work behind the scenes over the last couple of months by Eoin Coates, Vice President WestWind Europa, in setting up hubs, designing, testing and installing routes and acquiring and moving airplanes around, we are able to open for business as a complete entity immediately! WestWind Europa will follow the established Cat I and Cat II WWA regional model with the foundation of a few strategically placed regional hubs, all under the umbrella of WestWind Europa Regional, which will provide service to some outlying areas that are not presently serviced by the WWA mainline route structure. The areas being serviced by our new regional airline are as follows: Greenland and Iceland: http://goo.gl/maps/k5WkP Scotland and Mediterranean: http://goo.gl/maps/TSgft Azores and Islas Canarias: http://goo.gl/maps/gbVfF Scandanavia (Norway/Sweden/Finland): http://goo.gl/maps/uqYb5 Alps Region: http://goo.gl/maps/eCnxI Be sure to drop by the Westwind Europa homepage for dispatch, hub and route information. Please join me in welcoming Eoin to his new job as head of our latest venture. Congratulations, Captain Coates! Very nice work indeed!! * EDIT: Very sincere thanks as well to George for his hard work on the IT side and to Mike Bergman for another stunning regional graphic! Rob Wilkinson EVP WestWind Regional Airlines (Posted 9/15/13)

It gives me great pleasure to announce to you that Kim Stolt has been promoted to Chief Pilot and EVP of Training in addition to his other duties effective September 15. Kim flies jets for a living and is an FAA certified flight instructor. He has over 8,000 hours of flight time at WestWind. He has been involved in leadership at WestWind longer than I can remember. He is one of only a handful of pilots at WW that I consider to be qualified for this job. This promotion has been in the works for a few months, but we wanted to give Kim some time with his family over the summer months before taking on new responsibilities. Kim, replaces Ed Ward, Jr. who had held the position since the early days of the airline. A few months ago, Ed decided it was time to retire. Ed did a superb job for WestWind and he will be missed. He will forever be remembered as one of the pioneers of the airline. Please help me welcome Kim as he takes us into the next chapter of the airline. Mike Gibbs President (Posted 9/14/2013)

It gives me great pleasure to announce to you that Kim Stolt has been promoted to Chief Pilot and EVP of Training in addition to his other duties effective September 15. Kim flies jets for a living and is an FAA certified flight instructor. He has over 8,000 hours of flight time at WestWind. He has been involved in leadership at WestWind longer than I can remember. He is one of only a handful of pilots at WW that I consider to be qualified for this job. This promotion has been in the works for a few months, but we wanted to give Kim some time with his family over the summer months before taking on new responsibilities. Kim, replaces Ed Ward, Jr. who had held the position since the early days of the airline. A few months ago, Ed decided it was time to retire. Ed did a superb job for WestWind and he will be missed. He will forever be remembered as one of the pioneers of the airline. Please help me welcome Kim as he takes us into the next chapter of the airline. Mike Gibbs President (Posted 9/14/2013)

The "WestWind Monthly" newsletter is now available. Many interesting features in this month's issue, Emergency procedures, name the plane, monthly challenge and much, much more! Find the newslettter here WestWind Virtual Airlines is an international online organization dedicated to promoting aviation through simulation. It offers real world pilots the opportunity to inexpensively maintain their piloting skills and provides people who are interested in aviation a chance to learn the skills that are required to pursue a career in aviation. WestWind began operations in 1996 and is one of the oldest virtual airlines in existence. It has members all over the world with management concentrations in The United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. WestWind is an all volunteer organization with a strong management core. For more information, see our web site at http://www.flywestwind.com.

The July 2012 edition of the "WestWind Monthly" Newsletter has been released. This issue is packed full of news and some other surprises too! Read the newsletter here: http://www.flywestwind.com/monthlynewsletters/2012/July%202012.pdf WestWind Virtual Airlines is an international online organization dedicated to promoting aviation through simulation. It offers real world pilots the opportunity to inexpensively maintain their piloting skills and provides people who are interested in aviation a chance to learn the skills that are required to pursue a career in aviation. WestWind began operations in 1996 and is one of the oldest virtual airlines in existence. It has members all over the world with management concentrations in The United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. WestWind is an all volunteer organization with a strong management core. For more information, see our web site at http://www.flywestwind.com.

WestWind is pleased to announce that we are planning the launch of another regional airline. WestWind Caribe came about as a direct result of discussion in the forum suggesting that it has high interest among the pilots at WestWind. It will feature feeder routes from the Caribbean into WestWind Airlines much like WestWind Alaska. Our best guess is that It will take us about six months to make this happen. Please be patient with us. It will require a lot of behind the scenes work. In the meantime, we have taken the first necessary steps to get us underway. Rob Wilkinson has been promoted to Executive Vice President of Regional Airlines. The concept of an EVP for all regional airlines was planned over a year ago at the time we were considering how to launch WestWind Alaska. We recognized that if WW Alaska was successful, it would open the door for other regional airlines. This promotion for Rob is the fulfillment of that vision. Brian Bancroft has accepted the position of Vice President of WestWind Caribe reporting to Rob. Brian will be responsible for running WW Caribe. Congratulations Rob and Brian on your new roles. We look forward to seeing these new ventures develop and mature under your leadership. WestWind Virtual Airlines is an international online organization dedicated to promoting aviation through simulation. WestWind was founded in 1996 by four intrepid men who were tired of the boring everyday virtual airlines that had no passion for aviation or for caring about their pilots. WestWind was designed to fill the gaps in other virtual airlines and to bring virtual flight closer to the feel of a real airline pilot. It offers real world pilots the opportunity to inexpensively maintain their piloting skills and provides people who are interested in aviation a chance to learn the skills that are required to pursue a career in aviation. Being one of the oldest and largest virtual airlines in existence, WestWind has members all over the world with management concentrations in The United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Currently, we have over 350 active pilots worldwide. What add-ons do we offer? We have more than 120 variations of aircraft in our hangar and we offer many repaints of payware aircraft. We also offer scenery for our hub airports and a few others around the world. WestWind supports pilots who fly both FS2004 and FSX and multiplayer, VATSIM, IVAO or offline flight. We provide the flexibility to fly passenger flights, cargo hauls or executive charters anywhere on the planet. Ever dream of being a bush pilot? WestWind pilots also have the option to fly for our Alaska Regional Airline and soon, our new regional airline, WestWind Caribe. Want off airport, low visibility and high crosswinds? Alaska Regional is bush flying at its best. Each of our worldwide hubs offers hundreds of routes and most are real world flights. WestWind is also into creating events that any pilot can participate in. If you fly online, often there are weekly fly-ins put on by our Online Operations Team. Some of our other events are: Christmas in Tahiti, Operation EastWind, we support GAAR (Great Australian Air Rally) and more! How does a WestWind pilot do all this? WestWind has a top tier training facility located at Denver International Airport. Pilots go through transition training as they advance through each progressive category. Pilots also have the option of doing advanced training (including emergency procedures) either offline or online with any of our well qualified trainers. WestWind is also an Authorized Training Organization with VATSIM, so you can get your VATSIM training through WestWind Airlines and know that we are as good as it gets. For more information or to apply, see our web site at http://www.flywestwind.com

The April 2012 edition of WestWind airlines' monthly newsletter, the "WestWind Monthly" has been released. This edition incorporates many improvements over last month's initial issue. This month there is many articles including some real-world anecdotes and some news and updates on WestWind operations. Find the newsletter here: http://www.flywestwind.com/monthlynewsletters/2012/April%202012.pdf WestWind Virtual Airlines is an international online organization dedicated to promoting aviation through simulation. It offers real world pilots the opportunity to inexpensively maintain their piloting skills and provides people who are interested in aviation a chance to learn the skills that are required to pursue a career in aviation. WestWind began operations in 1996 and is one of the oldest virtual airlines in existence. It has members all over the world with management concentrations in The United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. WestWind is an all volunteer organization with a strong management core. For more information, see our web site at http://www.flywestwind.com.

WestWind airlines would like to welcome their new Director of Charter Operations, Central and South America, Captain Dorothy Fryer. Dorothy joined WestWind on the 4th of April 2010, she is the Hub Manager of our Singapore hub and has accumulated an impressive 944 hours in her two years with us. In her new position Dorothy will be creating many new charters for the region and to other destinations worldwide and I'm sure she will come up with some very interesting, fun and exciting charters. WestWind Virtual Airlines is an international online organization dedicated to promoting aviation through simulation. It offers real world pilots the opportunity to inexpensively maintain their piloting skills and provides people who are interested in aviation a chance to learn the skills that are required to pursue a career in aviation. WestWind began operations in 1996 and is one of the oldest virtual airlines in existence. It has members all over the world with management concentrations in The United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. WestWind is an all volunteer organization with a strong management core. For more information, see our web site at http://www.flywestwind.com or email us at [email protected]