NOTAM - Change of ICAO & Radio Telephony Designator - Virgin Australia Group

[Mark R - 811451]

VATSIM NOTAM 28OCT12 00:00UTC

 

Notification of New Radio Telephony Designator and Three Letter ICAO Designator for Virgin Australia Group

 

28 OCT 2012

 

1.0 INTRODUCTION

The Virgin Australia Group of Airlines currently use four separate Callsigns:

• Virgin Australia International - VAU (Vee‐Oz)
• Virgin Australia New Zealand - PBN (BlueBird)
• Virgin Australia Holdings - VBH (Bluey)
• Virgin Australia - VOZ (Virgin)

 

2.1 RADIO TELEPHONY DESIGNATOR AND THREE LETTER ICAO DESIGNATOR

With effect from 00:00z on 28OCT12 (11:00 AEST, 13:00 NZDT, 08:00 AWST) all Virgin Australia Group Airlines will operate under one single Radio Telephony Designator and one single ICAO Designator:

• Radio Telephony Designator: VELOCITY (+ suffix numbers)
  
• Three Letter Designator: VOZ (+ suffix numbers)

 

2.2 AIRCRAFT AIRBORNE AT TIME OF CHANGE

Any flight with a departure time BEFORE 00:00z on 28OCT12 will continue to use the current designator and Callsign, as listed in Section 1.0 above.

 

Any flight with a scheduled ETD after 00:00z on 28OCT12 will operate with the new designator and Callsign.

 

3.0 CANCELLATION

This NOTAM remains in effect PERMANENTLY unless superseded by subsequent NOTAMS.

 

4.0 ENQUIRIES

 

Enquiries to be directed to:

 

VATSIM LIAISON:

 

Mark Richards

Manager Flight Operations Technical

VOZ Virtual

 

5.0 DISTRIBUTION

By VATSIM, VATPAC and VATNZ Message Boards

[Mark R - 811451]

VATPAC Partner VA VOZ Virtual will be adopting this change from 00:00z on 28 October 2012