Cross the Pond

[Ramon Balimann]

The voting for Cross the Pond 2020 Eastbound on 14th November are open now. Log in on https://ctp.vatsim.net/vote and vote for your favorite Airport. We would appreciate your vote for Zurich (LSZH/ZRH). You already voted and didn't select Zurich? No Problem Just sumbit the form again with LSZH and everything is fine.

[Ramon Balimann]

Thanks for your vote! Zürich is selected for this years edition

[Florian Hofer]

Will there be a shiftplan, or acc. Bookings?

[Ramon Balimann]

There will be a shift plan, Infos will follow soon.

[Ramon Balimann]

Everything will be a little different for pilots this year. You can read all changes in this information. Bookings will open tonight at 20:00z! They will stay open for 7 Days and then maybe you will get your slot. Read it all in the announcement above.

[Ramon Balimann]

The CTP Planning team is pleased to announce that the airport voting for Cross the Pond Eastbound 2022 has now opened. VATSIM members can now vote for their top airports until 13th September 2000 UTC via the CTP website.
Members can vote for their 1st, 2nd and 3rd favourite choice on either side of the ocean, earning that airport 5, 3 and 2 points respectively. The Planning Team of the event will then meet with the user’s vote to include your favourite airports and occasionally a choice of their own.
All VATSIM members ca vote for their favourite airports here: https://ctp.vatsim.net/voting
A full list of the airports available on each side of the ocean are listed at the end of my post. I would like to welcome some new geographical areas to our voting, to include airports in South America (Brazil and Venezuela) and Africa (Morocco and South Africa) for the first time.

[Luca Santoro]

Cool to see more diversity included!
Maybe in 10 years from now, the Cross the Pond will simply become a "All World Stations are opened event".

[Chiara Paganini]

I still wonder how they're planning to staff all those additional OACCs if they don't even manage to have Shanwick and Gander filled consistently for CPT

[Ramon Balimann]

As you have seen, the airports were already announced a week ago and now the slot lottery system is ready to join. If you want to participate in CTP as a pilot, please state your interest on the CTP Website. You will find some further Information about the slot lottery system in this VATSIM Forum post.

Furthermore the VATUK staffed is always interested in Oceanic controllers. If you want to apply, feel free to visit www.vatsim.uk/visit-transfer.

[Ramon Balimann]

The Airport voting for the Cross the Pond Westbound 2023 are now open and can be found on https://ctp.vatsim.net. Vote for your favorite airports until 19th February 21:00z.

[Florian Hofer]

Do you maybe know, why CPT is in the voting under Europe airport?

[Chiara Paganini]

Like last CTP, from what I can tell there will be a south atlantic crossing in addition to the north atlantic ones, so one South America - Africa city-pair in addition to the Europe - North America ones

[Ramon Balimann]

The CTP Team is searching for new people which want to contribute for the event in a higher level. If you are interested in such a position, please have a look at this forum thread with all the details.

[Ramon Balimann]

Dear Members

Please make sure to vote for Geneva Airport - LSGG for the upcoming Cross the Pond edition until Saturday evening! You can find the link for the voting here.

Thanks for your support!

[Ramon Balimann]

Dear Members

As some of you might have read in the Cross the Pond Discord News the organisation team has decided to take a break for CTP and evaluate how the event should be hosted in the future. As the network has grown, the planning and hosting of such a big event has brought up some challenges which they want to discuss with the partner involved. Therefore CTP 25 Eastbound will not be hosted and they hope to return in 2026 with some news.

Personal opininion: I appreciate the evaluation of the event and looking around for alternates. With CTP and CTL four times a year it's not that highlight anymore but still has a huge planning work which need to be done. With the variety of other big events and high number of pilot/controller there are also a lot of other options to control with higher traffic which was not the case when the event was introduced.