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Our direction

A virtual airline designed to feel like an airline product

The goal is not to recreate the real British Airways website for ticket sales. It is to borrow the clarity, structure and visual discipline of an airline experience and apply it to virtual-airline operations.

Pilots should be able to discover destinations, select realistic flights, review their career, understand their fleet and carry the same information into Phoenix without feeling like they are moving between unrelated tools.

What we are building

Core features

The current product foundation already covers the major pilot-facing areas, while the live data layer will progressively replace development placeholders as integrations come online.

01

British Airways-inspired network

Browse a structured virtual route network, search available sectors and choose flights from the same destination-led experience used across the site.

02

Pilot career account

A single pilot profile brings together flight history, hours, landing performance, on-time rate, VA Points, tier progression and current assignments.

03

Fleet operations

Explore the virtual fleet by operating family today, with live registrations, aircraft availability, maintenance state and operational restrictions planned for the backend.

04

vAMSYS connection

The platform is being built around vAMSYS authentication and operational data so pilots can carry one VA identity across the website and our wider ecosystem.

05

Phoenix ecosystem

Website assignments and career information are designed to feed into Phoenix so the same pilot journey can continue between planning, flying and post-flight review.

06

Destination discovery

BA-inspired destination pages make the network feel like an airline product rather than a database, while keeping everything focused on flight simulation.

Development roadmap

Where British Airways Virtual is heading

The roadmap is intentionally phased so the visible pilot experience can mature alongside the backend integrations it depends on.

01
NowFoundation

Build the complete pilot-facing experience

Core website design, responsive navigation, destinations, fleet, flight search, pilot account views, virtual membership and the shared British Airways Virtual visual system.

02
NextIntegration

Connect the website to live pilot data

vAMSYS sign-in and API data, live pilot statistics, schedule availability, assignment handoff and a shared data contract between the website and Phoenix.

03
PlannedOperations

Turn the site into a live operations layer

Dynamic fleet registrations, aircraft status, maintenance information, route restrictions, richer dispatch data and SimBrief-assisted pre-flight workflows.

04
LaterExpansion

Grow the virtual airline around the community

Tours, events, alliance-inspired operations, achievements, richer career milestones, member recognition and deeper Phoenix integration across the pilot experience.

Looking ahead

Future plans

Two-way Phoenix sync

Assignments, completed flights and career data shared between the website and Phoenix.

Live operational fleet

Registrations, service state, maintenance and aircraft availability driven by backend records.

Smarter flight planning

More operational context around schedules, aircraft suitability, SimBrief and pre-flight preparation.

Community operations

Tours, events, badges and alliance-inspired flying that adds variety without changing the core BA Virtual identity.

British Airways Virtual

See the operation in action

Browse the network, explore the fleet or choose your next virtual sector.