We do have a queue of waiting companies worldwide but are just about to open up new private forums.
Experience shows that you're looking at approx 130 pilots/crew to get a reasonably healthy forum. This is based on many years of experience showing the proportion of contributors versus lurkers. Crew working for companies with widely dispersed bases find such forums particularly valuable. In these cases 2 mods covering different times zones, leave periods Etc. work very well. The system beautifully accomodates the road warriors amongst you - I'm running the entire site today from a laptop in a hotel room.
If interested we will have an experienced moderator to hand hold and show whoever is going to run the forums the ropes. Initially there is some workload to get to grips with the influx of permission to enter requests but after that it just takes a short period each day to keep an eye on things.
Because we give you server, software licencing, bandwidth and look after the entire technical side including rigorous backup to corporate standards we charge you a hundred bucks or equivalent per year. We make this clear to you upfront because any competent computer minded member of your company or others reading will be able to do this for free with the facilities offered by most ISP's. That is of course if you discount the time they put in creating and running the site.
Whichever way you decide to go it takes a bit of effort but it does pay off.
Regards
Rob