Alerts, NOTAMs & Notifications

Your Virtual Airline uses several ways to keep you informed: alerts for quick announcements, NOTAMs for detailed notices, and marketing emails for news and events. This article covers where to find each one and what to do when you see them.

Alerts

Alerts are short banner messages from your VA staff. They appear on your Phoenix dashboard and may also appear in Pegasus. Think of them as quick updates — a line or two about something you should know.

Where Alerts Appear

Alerts display in the Alerts component on your Phoenix dashboard. Your VA controls where this component sits in the dashboard layout, so the exact position varies between Virtual Airlines. If your VA has also enabled alerts in Pegasus, you will see them there after selecting your airline.

Alert Styles

Alerts are colour-coded to signal their importance:

• Info (blue) — General announcements, new features, or tips

• Success (green) — Positive news, completed updates, or achievements

• Warning (amber) — Upcoming changes, scheduled maintenance, or cautions

• Danger (red) — Critical issues, service disruptions, or urgent warnings

• Secondary (grey) — Low-priority background information

Alerts do not require any action from you. They are informational — read them and carry on.

System Alerts

In addition to alerts from your VA, vAMSYS itself may display certain automatic alerts:

• New pilot alert — If you haven't filed a PIREP yet, you will see an info alert suggesting you check your account settings and network preferences.

• PIREP needs reply — If one of your PIREPs requires a reply, a red alert links you directly to it. You need to respond before you can book another flight.

• Activity grace warning — If your account is not meeting activity requirements, a red alert appears with a link to your profile for details.

• vAMSYS announcements — Occasionally, Team vAMSYS posts platform-wide alerts about maintenance windows, new releases, or community activities. These are kept to a minimum.

NOTAMs

NOTAMs (Notices to Airmen) are longer, more detailed notices from your VA. Unlike alerts, NOTAMs have their own dedicated page, track whether you have read them, and some may require you to acknowledge them before you can fly.

Where to Find NOTAMs

NOTAMs appear in two places:

• Dashboard widget — If your VA has added a NOTAMs component to the dashboard, it shows a summary table of recent NOTAMs. Unread NOTAMs are highlighted in amber; unread Must Read NOTAMs are highlighted in red. Click any row to open the full NOTAM.

• NOTAMs page — The full NOTAMs list is available from Phoenix → NOTAMs. This page shows every active NOTAM with filters for priority, read status, and tags.

Reading a NOTAM

Each NOTAM in the list shows:

• Priority — Low (blue), Medium (amber), or High (red)

• Status — Must Read (red), Unread (amber), or Read (green)

• Expiry — When the NOTAM stops being shown, or "Never" for permanent NOTAMs

• Title — The NOTAM heading

• Tag — An optional category label set by your VA (useful for filtering)

Click a NOTAM to read its full content. Regular NOTAMs are automatically marked as read when you open them — no further action needed.

Must Read NOTAMs

Some NOTAMs are marked as Must Read by your VA. These are important enough that you need to explicitly acknowledge them.

When you have unread Must Read NOTAMs:

1. You will be redirected to the NOTAMs page when you try to book or dispatch a flight

2. Open the NOTAM and read through the content

3. Click the Acknowledge button at the bottom of the NOTAM

4. Once all Must Read NOTAMs are acknowledged, you can proceed to book flights as normal

Filtering NOTAMs

On the NOTAMs page, you can filter the list by:

• Priority — Low, Medium, or High

• Status — Must Read, Unread, or Read

• Tag — Category tags set by your VA (only shown if tags exist)

The list is sorted so that unread and Must Read NOTAMs always appear at the top, with the newest NOTAMs first within each group.

Marketing Communications

Some Virtual Airlines offer marketing communications — emails about news, events, and promotions. This is entirely optional and controlled by you.

The Dashboard Prompt

If your VA has marketing communications enabled and you haven't opted in yet, you may see a banner on your dashboard asking if you'd like to subscribe. You can click Subscribe to opt in, or No Thanks to dismiss it. If you dismiss it, the prompt won't appear again.

Managing Your Preference

You can change your marketing preference at any time:

1. Go to My Profile → Settings

2. Under Pilot Preferences, find the Marketing Communications toggle

3. Turn it on to subscribe, or off to unsubscribe

4. Save your preferences

When you opt in, your first name, last name, and email address are shared with the Virtual Airline for direct marketing purposes. You can unsubscribe at any time by returning to this setting.

Alerts vs NOTAMs — Quick Comparison

	Alerts	NOTAMs
What they are	Short banner messages	Detailed notices with full content
Where they appear	Dashboard banner and/or Pegasus	Dashboard widget and dedicated NOTAMs page
Read tracking	No	Yes — tracks whether you have read each one
Can block flight booking	No	Yes — Must Read NOTAMs require acknowledgement first
Action required	None — read and carry on	Click Acknowledge for Must Read NOTAMs

Related

• Alerts (Staff Guide) — How VA staff create and manage alerts

• NOTAMs (Staff Guide) — How VA staff create and manage NOTAMs