Globe Cargo News

A new schedule has been uploaded and will be available for bidding during the next bid period. This update includes NFL charters using N263SG and N322SG. If you are interested in operating these charters, keep an eye out for them in the upcoming bid cycle. These charters will only appear in the bid system and not in the Charter syste.

Here are the stats from the current and new schedule. The "Active" schedule stats are for the currently available schedule. The "Standby" schedule stats are for the schedule that goes into effect on April1st.

GCVA turned 20 years old on May 29th, 2024!

20 years ago, Ralph Tofflemire, the maker of 747 Ready For Pushback (RFP) started Virtual Atlas Air (VAA) as an outlet to operate the aircraft in a realistic way. Some years later the name was changed to Virtual Globe Cargo and finally Globe Cargo Virtual Airlines.

Some of our past logos (unfortunately, a VAA logo couldn't be found):

In that same time, our real-world counterpart has seen some big changes as well. Atlas Air and Polar Air Cargo merged and later bought and merged Southern Air into the operation. The late 2000's had DHL owning 49% of Polar resulting in DHL hybrid liveries.

This is quite a remarkable feat that puts GCVA among the oldest VA's in existance.

We would like to thank all of our staff, past and present as well as all of our members, both past and present for helping us make it this long!

A new schedule has been uploaded and will be available for bidding during the next bid period.

Here are the stats from the current and new schedule. The "Active" schedule stats are for the currently available schedule. The "Standby" schedule stats are for the schedule that goes into effect on April1st.

An Events Commission is being convened to develop in-house Events. Several volunteers will be accepted.

There are projects in work now that need assistance, so we are still in need of a few volunteers to help us out.

If interested or want to learn more about this volunteer opportunity, please go to the Red Volunteer button at the top of this page. Select the Events Commission project and on that page is a link to apply.

Direct link to the posting: Globe Cargo Virtual Airlines (globecargova.org)

We welcome our member input for Charter Suggestions. Look under Flight Operations on Discord.

If you do not have Discord you may email your route to the Airline Manager

All charter suggestions will be reviewed before being added to the Charter Board on the website.

Please ensure your suggested charter conforms to GCVA aircraft only.

This includes airport runway lengths and routing NOT over or inside of any Prohibited Airspace in accordance with published FAA NOTAMS.