American Flight Airways Virtual Airlines is an International virtual airline that uses most of Microsoft's Flight Simulator series.

About AFA

American Flight Airways Virtual Airlines is a major US virtual airline with US hubs at Detroit, Atlanta, Dallas, Phoenix, San Francisco and Washington D.C and international divisions in Australia and Latin America. Alpha Jet is AFA's low cost carrier flying brand new Boeing 737-800 aircraft and hubs in Flint, Baltimore, Oakland and Tampa. Together with its partner airline Pacific Airways, AFA serves major metropolitan cities throughout the world on six continents. In July 2003, AFA's parent organization the American Pacific Group was awarded "Best VA Organization." AFA offers pilots a simple, yet realistic approach to virtual aviation with a long, rich history spanning since 1996.

AFA's History

John Valencia and Enrique Garcia-Sayan established American Flight Airways Virtual Airlines (AFA) in November 1996. Originally AFA only had 2 hubs which were located at Pontiac, MI and Lima, Peru. During the early years of AFA from November 1996 and throughout 1997 AFA primarily flew commuter flights and a few domestic and international flights. In September 1997 AFA decided to expand its services and established new superhubs in Detroit, MI and Atlanta, GA, which resulted in substantial growth for AFA. AFA was accepted onto virtualairlines.com in May 1998 which made AFA a truly global virtual airline.

American Flight Airways Virtual Airlines began codesharing with Pacific Airways (PAY) in 2000 and in 2001 we co-founded the major alliance “The American Pacific Group or in short APG”. The alliance allows us to share web resources as well as to offer pilots greater flexibility and variety in the routes and aircraft they can fly.

AFA added a Low Cost Carrier Alpha Jet to its operations at the end of 2004. Early 2005 Kenric Smith, Thomas Snoeck, Troy Miles and Enrique Garcia –Sayan, completed the conversion of the international operations of American Flight Airways. The Sydney hub was successfully enlarged to AFA Australia and the San Juan operations were merged into AFA Latin America. Currently AFA has 6 US hubs and 2 international divisions; these include respectively Atlanta , Dallas , Detroit , Phoenix , San Francisco , Washington D.C and AFA Australia (main office in Sydney, Australia (YSSY)) and AFA Latin America (main office in Sao Paulo, Brazil (SBGR)).

Joining AFA

Anyone can become a member of AFA. Flight Simulator versions 2000, 2002, 2004 or FSX are required in order to fly. While you should preferably have some basic piloting skills (i.e.: take-off, landing, etc.).

AFA has a training staff as well as tutorials to help you move forward in your piloting skills.

External Links

- AFA Home Site

- Operations Manual