AAL routes in the schedule - 2 years later - we want your opinion

[UAL001 Gary Price]

Pilots,

As many of you know, in August 2019 we added AAL routes into our schedule to offer our pilots even more variety of routes and planes to fly. The overall response seems to have been good, but perhaps its time to re-evaluate this.

Please vote in the poll and add any comments you might have. Currently we are looking to update all our schedules in the months ahead as real world airlines are beginning to resume normal operations after the pandemic. We want to know your opinion!

Thanks!

[UAL141 Thierry Nguepdjo]

Out of curiosity, what other airline would be an option to add?

[UAL100 Vince Hendrickson]

I say remove them. Reason being the VA is Virtual United not Virtual United and American. I think the Charter option was created to give more variety and options. Just my thoughts.

[UAL141 Thierry Nguepdjo]

I say remove them. Reason being the VA is Virtual United not Virtual United and American. I think the Charter option was created to give more variety and options. Just my thoughts.

Problem with the charter option, in my opinion, is that the charter can only be flown in United colors. Let's say I'm in spending time flying in Europe and want to do charter between EDDS and EDDK (currently no scheduled routes between the two). It breaks any immersion to fly that charter in United colors instead of Lufthansa or Eurowings etc. Could the charter option at least be changed to allow us to pick which airline we are chartering for and have the respective banner displayed on arrival?

[UAL100 Vince Hendrickson]

That is a good idea. Charters would be United or Any Star Alliance Partner. I dig that.

[UAL1277 Kevin Finch]

I agree with that proposal. Keep in mind that Eurowings may be a subsidiary of Lufthansa but it is not a Star Alliance partner. It has codeshare arrangements with Lufthansa, United, Air Canada, etc., in much the same way Aer Lingus and Hawaiian do.

[UAL697 David Maggipinto]

My opinion is that this is a United Airlines VA. I joined because of United Airlines. I also belong to a Cargo VA because I like flying cargo flights. The fact they are a part of the Star Alliance is a bonus that we can fly those liveries for their routes. A charter is a charter and should be flown in United Liveries. If a person charters United Airlines to fly to a remote location not serviced by United Airlines, they don't contact the airline that flies those routes, they fly a United plane. I get it, people want a variety of liveries to fly. I think we have enough liveries to choose from and routes that reach almost everywhere. 99% of my flights are flown online on Vatism or IVAO and I always put our website in my flight plan just in case someone sees me online and is interested to see who I fly for. That is why I have no problem flying only United colors for charters.