AA Airbus A319

Firebird2XC said:
I'd say something snarky but I think lots of us have done it somewhere... maybe...

I really like when ground says "give way to American" and I can key the mike and say "give way to company..."
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Favorites include:

"Say sequence for American two thousand six."
"Wind check, American two thousand six."
"What kind of little jet is that, American two thousand six?"

etc.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
Favorites include:

"Say sequence for American two thousand six."
"Wind check, American two thousand six."
"What kind of little jet is that, American two thousand six?"

etc.
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It wouldn't be so fun to razz the AA kids if they weren't so obviously elitist towards us. I've heard ATC call AA as Eagle and the AA guy's read back sounded like he was going to stroke out. Tell somebody from AA that we're doing basically the exact same work and we should be unifying to deal with management and their eyes roll back in their head. It's a wee bit silly.
 
Firebird2XC said:
It wouldn't be so fun to razz the AA kids if they weren't so obviously elitist towards us. I've heard ATC call AA as Eagle and the AA guy's read back sounded like he was going to stroke out.
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So a garbage truck was cruising the ramp at SYR one night.

"Ops, they're here to pick up the Trash 8's"

Random PDT Pilot "I'm gonna kick yer ass Colgan!!!"

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Firebird2XC said:
It wouldn't be so fun to razz the AA kids if they weren't so obviously elitist towards us. I've heard ATC call AA as Eagle and the AA guy's read back sounded like he was going to stroke out. Tell somebody from AA that we're doing basically the exact same work and we should be unifying to deal with management and their eyes roll back in their head. It's a wee bit silly.
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When I worked at The Beagle, I was on the hotel van riding in from DFW, and one of the mainline good ol' boys ragged on me for flying a jet for, I quote, "eight dollars an hour." This is on a vanful of Eagle flight ops/inflight folks. We all got off at B and had a good laugh, but the guy was an ass.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
When I worked at The Beagle, I was on the hotel van riding in from DFW, and one of the mainline good ol' boys ragged on me for flying a jet for, I quote, "eight dollars an hour." This is on a vanful of Eagle flight ops/inflight folks. We all got off at B and had a good laugh, but the guy was an ass.
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There's a lot of this at DFW. Stories of Eagle kids being accosted by mainline FAs claiming to be AA pilot spouses and that "they were gonna take back yer jobz!" are known. The AA perception that we're somehow the enemy when we exist because of scope clauses they negotiated is highly disingenuous and frankly unbecoming of a professional.
 
Derg said:
TRRRRRBLE paint job.

Maybe I'm retro, but the best UAL paint job:
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Best Delta paint job:
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Best American:
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GREAT POST!

IMHO the United livery is a tossup between the one you posted and the orange/blue tulip that Landor did after the classic version.

But that Delta paint you posted is THE best, possibly of ay airline paint scheme... I wish they would do one of our new CRJ900s in that retro scheme!
I love the US Airways retro birds.
 
Firebird2XC said:
I'd say something snarky but I think lots of us have done it somewhere... maybe...

I really like when ground says "give way to American" and I can key the mike and say "give way to company..."
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Personally, I hate that. Like in JFK when they say "Give way to a company RJ". What, is it the RJ painted in Delta wannabe paint or the one with some special paint scheme, or the one with a generic company scheme?

Seems "cutesy" but when there's a winglet slicing through your cabin because they thought you were going to hold as a 75 joins the taxiway, not so cool anymore.
 
Once I heard about AA's Airbus order, I figured either a new livery was on the way or they were bringing this livery back:
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That would have been the more humane option. But, you know, 'Murika!
 
Derg said:
Personally, I hate that. Like in JFK when they say "Give way to a company RJ". What, is it the RJ painted in Delta wannabe paint or the one with some special paint scheme, or the one with a generic company scheme?

Seems "cutesy" but when there's a winglet slicing through your cabin because they thought you were going to hold as a 75 joins the taxiway, not so cool anymore.
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Yeah, but we actually are the wholly owned subsidiary, nearly all of Eagle's pilots have flow rights, etc.. Our gates say American, our company memos and assets often just say 'American'... We're not a contractor in the most literal sense. We're just on the other side of a paper wall.

... winglet through the cabin? Really, Dough?
 
Firebird2XC said:
It's not, really. It's just a joke Eagle pilots have about AA pilots. Why are you so hung up on it?
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Not hung up at all. Games airline guys play entertain me. Kinda like the gojet ID flipping. We don't have fun like that on the other side of the fence. Just FBO girls and rich people.
 
mikecweb said:
Not hung up at all. Games airline guys play entertain me. Kinda like the gojet ID flipping. We don't have fun like that on the other side of the fence. Just FBO girls and rich people.
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*shrugs* We lack FBO girls and rich people, so we have to make up ways to entertain ourselves. It's either that, or start sleeping with FAs again. My last FA's name was Joey. I'm sure he's super, but he's just not my type.
 
mikecweb said:
Not hung up at all. Games airline guys play entertain me. Kinda like the gojet ID flipping. We don't have fun like that on the other side of the fence. Just FBO girls and rich people.
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And taking pictures of my passed out before McDonalds....
 
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