Re: Will AS keep a VX heritage livery?

625 has just flown to Victorville. My bet is this’ll be the first one painted.

Re: Will AS keep a VX heritage livery?

Are you allowed to disclose the tail number? I’ve been keeping an eye on the entire fleet for the past month or so and the only one that hasn’t flown in the past 7 days is 641, but 851 and 852 have been at GSO for awhile. I don't know which tail number; it was mentioned today during an employee mee...

Re: Rumor: LH might introduce a new/revised livery in 2018

I saw a rendering awhile ago of a livery for them. It looked very similar to their current livery but the titles were changed to billboard style. It actually looked fantastic on their A32S aircraft, too bad I can’t find it.

Re: Will AS keep a VX heritage livery?

The first Airbus being repainted from VX to AS livery went into the paint shop today and is expected back in service by 1/25. Are you allowed to disclose the tail number? I’ve been keeping an eye on the entire fleet for the past month or so and the only one that hasn’t flown in the past 7 days is 6...

Re: Will AS keep a VX heritage livery?

No way Alaska would ever consider having a VX heritage jet. I think I saw a post by EA CO AS on another thread that the AS marketing team wanted the VX brand in the ground asap or something, which is true. As much as I love the VX brand, and dislike the AS brand, VX doesn’t bring anything special to...

Re: Flying Transcon: Virgin America A320 PHL-SFO F

First of all, excellent trip report! You sound just like me when I flew Virgin America for the first time, and the first time in F. I’ve never had a single flight where I was disappointed in even the slightest, and I’m very happy to read you were impressed so many times during your three flights. I ...

Re: MCI announcement 1/9-Icelandair announces KEF-MCI

First of all, hats off to MCI for getting this addition and it’s a vey nice addition for FI’s network. Hopefully for everyone using KEF they do. That airport is going to be an absolute zoo this summer. With all this added traffic PLUS the influx of tourists to the country there is just no where to ...

Re: Cabin Videography/Photography on AA

I personally have never had a single issue on American when it comes to photography onboard. Delta and United, I’ve had one off encounters but not American, and I’ve flown their Dreamliners before. Ultimately it’ll come down to the crewmember. Most times they won’t care, but if they’re having a roug...

Re: MCI announcement 1/9-Icelandair announces KEF-MCI

First of all, hats off to MCI for getting this addition and it’s a vey nice addition for FI’s network. Well done, with the growth in flights to the USA is there a chance KEF will operate a pre-clearence CBP any time soon? Hopefully for everyone using KEF they do. That airport is going to be an absol...

Re: AS v. DL, who is really the best?

DL is doing much more than AS to improve the passenger experience- cabin retrofits, lounge updates, and innovation (like the bioscanning to board). Just flew on one of their A321s in Economy and it was amazing- lots of legroom, moodlighting, and most importantly, personal TVs. If you’re flying acros...

Re: Alaska Airlines starts repainting Airbus fleet

Are the new Airbus’ being delivered to Alaska, or are they going to be stickered “operated by?” For some reason I thought I recall hearing AS personnel (airport, in flight) have been trained, or in process of, for Airbus. Also, what’s changing as far as VX 320 config is concerned? New seats etc, or...

Re: Alaska Airlines unveils A321neo "Most West Coast" livery

I would love it if they would announce a merger with JetBlue. It would make Alaska (or more likely, JetBlue would be the surviving airline name - if they had any sense) a formidable national competitor. I see that happening in the next 5 years, but first, AS joins oneworld - which I believe will ha...

Re: Alaska Airlines unveils A321neo "Most West Coast" livery

https://airlinegeeks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/35042321966_08ae86ccc7_k.jpg I think I've found the culprit: very strong mood lighting. Source: https://airlinegeeks.com/2017/06/07/taking-a-ride-onboard-the-worlds-first-revenue-a321neo-flight/ I actually took that photo. The moodlighting is only...

Re: American takes delivery of the last Boeing 737-800, the fleet is now repainted

AA quietly painted the bottom of one of their old colored aircraft to silver to make it a retrojet. So the silverbird 737-800 will live on with the other retrojets.

Re: OAG Changes 12/24/2017: DL Drops DAY-LGA, EK Daily to Florida, NK Cuts MSP-PHL, VR Out of PVD, WN Adds CVG-PHX

That VX cut of FLL-LAX hurts me a lot

Good to see EK restoring daily service to FLL and MCO however!

Re: Alaska Airlines unveils A321neo "Most West Coast" live

VX represented everything great about flying, it was the airline to counter "blah airlines". To see it absorbed by the "blahest" of airlines turns my stomach. I’d like you to please explain how AS is the “‘blahest’ of Airlines”. Call me biased all you want but as someone who has...

Re: OAG Changes 12/17/2017: AA Adds MIA-BON, AS Shrinks SEA-LAX/SFO, DL Shrinks in LAX; DY Drops BOS-CPH/OSL, Adds JFK-

I think the AA PHL-JFK flight isn’t *worse* for anyone, it’s just giving NYC travelers better international options from their PHL hub. Delta has been flying the route (for the opposite- giving PHL travelers more options from JFK) with 757s on a thirty minute flight recently. AA has shifted a few f...

Re: OAG Changes 12/17/2017: AA Adds MIA-BON, AS Shrinks SEA-LAX/SFO, DL Shrinks in LAX; DY Drops BOS-CPH/OSL, Adds JFK-

I think the AA PHL-JFK flight isn’t *worse* for anyone, it’s just giving NYC travelers better international options from their PHL hub. Delta has been flying the route (for the opposite- giving PHL travelers more options from JFK) with 757s on a thirty minute flight recently. AA has shifted a few fl...

Re: Alaska Airlines unveils A321neo "Most West Coast" livery

This livery is horrible. I normally like liveries with lots of color but holy crap, it looks like Shrek threw up on the airplane. As a loyal Redwood flyer who won’t be switching to Alaska after the merger, it kills me to see it progress, but leaving the tail blank like that? C’mon! As much as it pai...

Re: British Airways Retro 77W Coming Soon?

While it certainly wouldn’t be impossible for the news to break early- like GJ did with HA- it looks like a fantasy model. As VirginFlyer said, the registration is not right. Besides, it would be best to see a BOAC retro on a 744!

Re: LATAM to retrofit its 777 - again.

Is JJ planning to repaint the 777s into LATAM colours? (Have any been repainted so far). I thought AC was slow to repaint its 777s, but JJ is even slower! JJ intially said they weren’t repainting the 77Ws because of their-then imminent retirement. If they do intend on keeping the aircraft another 1...

Re: Rare Malaysian Airlines 9M-MRO MH389 PVG-KUL

Why is it rare? Because the plane crashed? I mean that thing was flying for more than a decade, so you know, millions flew on it. It's not rare. It's clickbait. I can’t seem to find a lot of reports from aircraft that crashed. I’m sure that out of the millions of people that airplane flew, only a f...

Re: Planes that will be missed and those not

It seems most of a.net is divided when it comes to the Maddogs. People either love it or hate it, no in between! Personally, I love it, especially when sitting before the wing because you don’t hear a single thing, other than the air rushing past your window. I’ll also miss the 717s, because sitting...

Re: Airline Poll - major carriers

I am still a big American fan, but Delta has been catching my eye recently in terms of improvements to passenger experience, while United (aside from Polaris) increasingly feels like an LCC back in cattle class on their 737s. Nonetheless my list is: 1. American 2. Emirates (purely because they start...

Re: DEN has an indoor ice rink

I doubt TSA would allow skates in the hand luggage airside, so I would expect them offering rental skates. But an ice rink inside an airport sounds like a really fun place to be for a layover or when checking in early. From the photo, it looks like the rink is actually landside, or am I mistaken? Y...

Re: CM 806 strange path today

Did anyone happen to take a screenshot of the flight path? I can’t see it anymore on FR24.

Re: DEN has an indoor ice rink

A free ice skating rink inside an airport? Now you're speaking my language! That is pretty insane, and would be an awesome thing to do during a layover! I'm looking forward to hearing you explain a pair of ICE SKATES in your hand luggage. Those blades would surely constitute a security issue. :stir...

Re: BA 'Dove' A319s finally getting repainted

Wow, it looks like I'm the only one who absolutely loved the livery. Sucks to hear they won't be around much longer and will join the rest of the standard BA liveried A319s.

Re: DEN has an indoor ice rink

A free ice skating rink inside an airport? Now you're speaking my language! That is pretty insane, and would be an awesome thing to do during a layover!

Re: AA 737 MAX 8 Inaugural

N62NA wrote:

Just a little plastic thing hanging from the ceiling to separate First class from Coach?

Re: Air Canada A321 Livery Mistake?

I do have to agree- it seems that the mask on this particular A321 has that point at the bottom. Comparing it to other A321s in the new livery, I actually like the pointed feature, and as others have suggested, it’s a small detail, but it adds quite a bit to an already great livery. Hopefully it isn...

Re: Timeline for retirement....AA's A333 & E190s?

LOL Are you serious? The A330 is superior to the 787 in AA's configuration. I'll take the 2-4-2 configuration of the A330 over the 3-3-3 seating on the 787 any day of the week. As someone who's flown on both aircraft with AA, the only advantage the 787 has is the IFE and the moodlighting. Other tha...

Re: Timeline for retirement....AA's A333 & E190s?

I am scheduled to fly from Phil to Barcelona on a A330 next summer .... I would LOVEEEE if some how magically we fly in a 787 or any other plane! So please AA ... retire them! LOL Are you serious? The A330 is superior to the 787 in AA's configuration. I'll take the 2-4-2 configuration of the A330 o...

Re: Air Transat to unveil new livery November 13th

Wow what a huge downgrade from their previous livery. What a shame. The only good thing I like is the gradient, but everything else screams “blah”.

Re: Air Transat to unveil new livery November 13th

The link is broken it seems now. Anybody take screenshots of it?

Re: Eastern Web Site Inoperative

In a weird turn of events, Havana Air reverted the titles on one of the former Eastern 737s back to the Eastern title and logo. If the company really is dead, why would Swift go through the hassle of replacing the titles back to EAL? Weird for sure, but something to keep an eye on in the coming weeks.

Re: Could DL return to ISP?

Problem is that Delta has a massive presence at JFK/LGA, just about an hour away (sometimes a bit more with traffic). Long Islanders could easily just take the LIRR to the AirTrain if they wanted to fly Delta. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to allocate aircraft to ISP, where they could be posi...

Re: Pet peeves you have about flight attendants

When they do the normal airline credit card announcement on initial descent (mostly AA or NK) and then you get the occasional flight attendant who likes hearing herself/himself speak and just ramble on and on and on about the card and its benefits and where you can go if you apply for it on this spe...

Re: 2017-2018 NHL Charter Flight Numbers

I believe Vegas has been using Swift Air. On their current road trip I've seen their travel videos on Facebook and it seems like the usual Swift Air 734.

I'm also curious about the Florida Panthers. They used EAL last year but they're gone now, so who are they using?

Re: Airlines serving free alcohol in Y

Virgin America offers free alcohol on their Los Angeles to Vegas service. Because the flight is so short, they only have limited catering and offer passengers either water, white wine or beer for free (at least as of October 2017)

Re: Shortened call signs?

Frontier vs Frontier Flight is common throughout the US. Why does it matter? I get the rigidity of ATC but everyone knows who Frontier is. Question is what will ATC do when Alaska paints the first Virgin America Airbus (and decals over AS' "Proudly All Boeing")? Will it be Virgin in Alask...

Re: TLV to MIA on LH Business class.Terrible.

I did indeed write LH upon arriving home,even called them...their answers were even more upsetting than the experience ,and there was a limit to the length of the report. In short they claim that : 1-The terrible heat in the cabin in Miami was because 'technically' they can not regulate temperature...

Re: Cabin Photos from Doomed Jets

Not sure why everyone is confused about the inquiry. It's strange, but interesting and plenty of aviation enthusiasts who have studied accidents have no doubt found an interest in such documentation. Air New Zealand 901: Plenty of clear images and video were filmed on board the fateful flight, incl...

Re: Passengers "Who Just Met", Join Mile High Club, Get Arrested on DL

I’m very surprised this didn’t happen on Virgin

Re: TLV to MIA on LH Business class.Terrible.

Seriously though, sorry to hear you had a poor experience. I would’ve been writing to them the moment I was home. It seems like it was the exact opposite of an experience you were expecting. I had to read this a few times before I realized it wasn't a sarcastic response to MANMatthew about his poor...

Re: TLV to MIA on LH Business class.Terrible.

Didn’t even attempt to read this with a lack of paragraphs. Excellent contribution to this thread. I bet it took you forever to think of a response like that. Seriously though, sorry to hear you had a poor experience. I would’ve been writing to them the moment I was home. It seems like it was the e...

Re: A visual into Alaska Air Group's Q3 performance

I think something an analyst alluded to, but AS management refuses to acknowledge, is that a lot of Virgin's cool factor allure is gone with the branding changeover to Alaska; an SFO or LAX millenial might have paid a bit of a premium to book Virgin, but not Alaska. The fact that PRASM on VX market...

Re: Confusing Callsigns

My favorite airline, Virgin America, also has one of my favorite callsigns: Redwood, because of the beautiful California Redwoods in their home state. The Muir Woods, known for their Redwoods is in close proximity to their hub at San Francisco. It'll be sad to see this callsign go away in April