Fourth Anniversary

3/1/2016

It was 4 years ago when Jonathan Enger started Mirage Executive Charters based at KSRQ (our first hub) down in Florida.  Here is an excerpt from his post about our first anniversary: “I built the original MECva website in one long 12 hour day with a vision to create something different from every other cookie cutter airline VA out there.  I envisioned a place where everybody was equal to each other and where members could voice their opinions on what they wanted to see and discuss it among other pilots in the forums.  Also a place where the management team was in for the joy of the members, not always themselves.” Jonathan Enger

We have come a LONG way from our small beginnings! It all started with two pilots who applied on that first day Jonathan created the website. Then more joined in that first month and many of those pilots are still flying with MECva.

Thank you to all of our pilots for flying and being a part of the community here at MECva. Your inputs and opinions on where YOU thought Mirage should go have shaped it. You have voted on pilot bases, fleets, routes and events and your input was and still is crucial to Mirage!

Next, I want to thank everyone in management. You guys are the best. Thank you so much for all of your hard work.  A huge Thank you to Todd for updating our phpVMS site & the new forum site soon to be activated.  Thanks to our hub managers for all they do here; Thierry, Todd, Jeff, Bill, Jon R, Matt & Jonathan S  for all of your help with routes, helping out pilots with their problems and many other things too numerous to mention here!  We are blessed with a great team!

In the end, it has been a fun four years at Mirage. We have got something special here and it’s all because of you guys. Thank you so much and I look forward to many, many more years we can celebrate on March 1st!

The major activity for MECva this last year has been the transition from VAFS to phpVMS for our ACARS system database.    Todd has been working very hard behind the scenes to make sure everything works and looks right for us.  Since we made the switch to the new system we continue to add more routes at each hub.  We recently added a Tour system to our site which has been extremely popular; check it out if you have not tried it yet.

The middle of December 2015 Todd opened the database which required we start all over with our MECva stats.  Here are a few Stats showing where we are now on 2/29/2016:
We currently have 71 Pilots; 39 virtual aircraft in our fleet and about 2,000 routes in our virtual system flying out of 8 Hubs.  You have flown 1197 flights;  1,698 hours;  509,148 nm; earning $14.3 million in Net Revenue since mid December.

There are many new things being implemented such as the pilot awards started in January with more to come.   It has been a challenging and exciting year for MECva.   I thank you all for your participation and contributions to our VA.

Blue Skies,

Jerry
CEO