intercontinental airways VIRTUAL AIRLINE (IAVA)
Intercontinental Airways Virtual Airline (IAVA) is the main feeder airline of Abel Jets Virtual Group. The virtual airline primarily soars to destinations that Abel Jets MCC does not fly to due to political situations or regional tensions. Pyongyang in North Korea is one of the examples. IAVA also fills in Abel Jets MCC routes when the latter's fleet is unavailable to serve the routes. All IAVA aircraft (as well as most Abel Jets Virtual Group aircraft) are equipped with advanced C-MUSIC infrared countermeasure systems which allow the virtual airline's fleet to fly within "hot zones" around the world. With the most state-of-the-art fleet of Boeing 737-MAX7s, Boeing 737-MAX10s, Boeing 747-8i-s, Boeing 777-9Xs, Boeing 787-8 Dreamliners, Bombardier CS-300s, and with passenger treatment that is on par or some even said excels that found in Abel Jets MCC, IAVA is surely your pal to fly with - within or outside those "special" regions.
IAVA first grew its business primarily through an unconventional campaign of pilot recruiting by its CEO, HawkbitAlpha, which spanned multiple YS servers. A week after its foundation, acf492, a real-life pilot responsible for creating the Civ-02 Civilian Group manual, joined the VA; initially entering as a pilot, acf was quickly promoted to the position of Executive Officer (EXO). After a month of operation, IAVA was officially granted Certification-In-Progress (CIP) status by YSFHQ, with 7 pilots in its roster at the time. Using the aircraft of IAVA's ExpressBlue merger, Hawkbit created plans in 2016 to launch a new cargo airline named Revenant Express, but these plans failed to materialize due to his enlistment in GrunSolutions PMC. In August 2018, Hawkbit attempted to fully re-launch Intercontinental Airways with a new structure and staff team (while reusing the same fleet pack), but again quickly abandoned the effort due to a combination of technical problems and an overall lack of activity in YS civil aviation.
In November 2020, Hawkbit, having moved away from the civilian sector due to his activity in 2UCW, submitted the former Intercontinental Airways brand and assets to the civilian YS community through a thread on YSFHQ. This offer was quickly taken up by Abel Jets Group executives FreezingFalcon and Thomascook221, who proposed to re-purpose IAVA under the AJG umbrella. Its acquisition was confirmed on November 15th, 2020 by FreezingFalcon, who stated on YSFHQ that IAVA would be reworked to "operate as both [a] long-range feeder airline to destinations that Abel Jets Group's current fleet do not operate to and also as a backup to the main Abel Jets Group fleet." On December 31, 2020, the three new aircraft of the IAVA fleet were released with Abel Jets' overhauled 8.0 fleet pack. Along with a recreated version of the original 737 MAX 7, IAVA's 747-400 and 777-300 were replaced by the 747-8i and 777-9; all three received a modified version of the airline's original red-and-white livery (derived from acf492's 737 MAX livery design), as well as new tail numbers and names.
As one might notice, the absence of the word "Abel" on IAVA's name is the result of the airline being acquired by Abel Jets Group - of which IAVA was previously operating by itself - in late 2020 to keep the airline soaring across the virtual skies of YSFlight Simulator.
More information regarding IAVA and its history can be found here: ysflightsim.fandom.com/wiki/Intercontinental_Airways_VA
In November 2020, Hawkbit, having moved away from the civilian sector due to his activity in 2UCW, submitted the former Intercontinental Airways brand and assets to the civilian YS community through a thread on YSFHQ. This offer was quickly taken up by Abel Jets Group executives FreezingFalcon and Thomascook221, who proposed to re-purpose IAVA under the AJG umbrella. Its acquisition was confirmed on November 15th, 2020 by FreezingFalcon, who stated on YSFHQ that IAVA would be reworked to "operate as both [a] long-range feeder airline to destinations that Abel Jets Group's current fleet do not operate to and also as a backup to the main Abel Jets Group fleet." On December 31, 2020, the three new aircraft of the IAVA fleet were released with Abel Jets' overhauled 8.0 fleet pack. Along with a recreated version of the original 737 MAX 7, IAVA's 747-400 and 777-300 were replaced by the 747-8i and 777-9; all three received a modified version of the airline's original red-and-white livery (derived from acf492's 737 MAX livery design), as well as new tail numbers and names.
As one might notice, the absence of the word "Abel" on IAVA's name is the result of the airline being acquired by Abel Jets Group - of which IAVA was previously operating by itself - in late 2020 to keep the airline soaring across the virtual skies of YSFlight Simulator.
More information regarding IAVA and its history can be found here: ysflightsim.fandom.com/wiki/Intercontinental_Airways_VA
