Have you been looking for ways to get from Kansas City to San Diego? Maybe looking for a 3 leg assignment that ends up in Kona, HI? Now you can! An often requested feature to the website is the ability to search for specific arrival airports when looking for flight assignments. The ETE search for flight assignments works a little more…
KANSAS CITY, MO. – MetroAir today announced two new Californian destinations that will operate twice a day out of their west coast hub, Ontario International Airport. Begining June 1st 2013 direct daily flights will be offered to Bakersfield Meadows Airport and San Luis Obispo Municipal airport. The two new services will be operated on DeHavilland Dash8-Q200 aircraft. These recent additions…
Now that the May Hub Competition is coming to a close, we want to take this time to offer a little preview of what is coming up for the month of June. Are you tired of being all alone when you fly with FS ATC? Tired of being vectored 40 miles out of your way to get to an ILS…
KANSAS CITY, MO – MetroAir introduced plans for their fleet-wide maintenance program during a brief press conference outside MetroAir’s headquarters here today. Short URL: http://m3t.co/bCMSi
We covered a lot about the how, what, when and wheres of how MetroAir got attacked. In this final post of the series I wanted to shift the discussion a little. While our software wasn’t running the most current version and our backup policies weren’t what they once were, the true cause of the hack was the ability to hack…
KANSAS CITY, MO. – MetroAir today announced the launch of its upcoming seasonal summer service focused on the Pacific region. Following the success of least summer’s venture with Island Air of Hawaii, MetroAir announced the return of this partnership for the Summer 2013 season. Two of our Q400 aircraft have been specially outfitted for the trip to the islands of…
In the last part, we talked a little bit about the events of a recent hack and how we took actions to mitigate it and restore our content. This article is going to go more into the positives of the incident; specifically we’ll delve into what we learned and how we changed our actions. Backups Since the incident regular backups…
KANSAS CITY, MO. – MetroAir Virtual Airlines announced today that from May 1st there will be a full new set of schedules in operation at their FLL focus city. These changes are part of there ongoing efforts to bring pilots the best possible service and realism. For many months it has been common knowledge amongst the ops team that they…
By now most of you know that last weekend MetroAir endured a debilitating attack to the website that lasted a little under 48 hours. Much was learned during the assailment and has helped to reinforce some of our data policies. Join us as we walk through the events of the attack and how the staff mitigated it in part one….
After having acquired Cirrus Air a number of years ago and leaving the brand dormant, the executives at MetroAir Virtual have opted to bring back Cirrus Air. MetroAir’s iconic green liveries will be replaced with the blue tints of Cirrus. While the MetroAir website has already started it’s transition, it is expected that the transition will take much of the year…