Call me old fashioned...

Funny story about Skybus, I feel like I may have told this once on JC already so sorry if I did. I uploaded this pic of a Skybus A319 taking off in San Deigo, and got an interesting e-mail about it. It was an executive of Skybus who let me know he was very impressed by the photo and wanted to buy it off me for their marketing, until he read the comment(which was minus the "skybus shutdown" remark at the time). He was furious and sent me a mini rant about how Skybus was a serious and legit carrier with a ton of planes on order and how they'd be huge and all sorts of other butthurt. I thought it would be hilarious to do a mockumentry about them so I found $9 seats OAK-CMH-OAK for the end of the school year as a highschool grad present to myself. That same week, I'm driving home from school and I hear on the local hip hop station "If any of ya'll got tickets outta Oakland to Ohio on Skybus, they outta buisness and they is gonna refund you so ya'll needa call the airline". I had to pull over I was laughing so hard. I never got my $30 back or whatever it was. I never tried to figure out how to get it, but it wasn't auto-refunded. The bastards.

I did like the livery, though.
 
MikeD said:
The leftover museum is a good one though. It was B-52 and KC-135 schoolhouse for the longest time. Old Atwater......always the constant smell of onions.
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I've seen it from the air but I seem to show up after hours everytime I happen to fly into MER. Another interesting thing I found out about MER is the would-be-hijacker of Federal Express 705, Auburn Calloway, is rotting away at the Federal Prison adjacent to the airport. Ironic he ends up next to an airport.
 
Already been posted, but it needs to be posted again as one of my favorite schemes on one of my favorite airplanes...
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With the other USAir pictures, no one posted the "Three Shades of Rust" paint job?
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And I've always been a fan of this paint job...
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ATN_Pilot said:
An AirTran 737 classic was the first airplane I jumpseated on as a newbie airline pilot! One of them now sits at a secluded part of ATL for the CFR crews to train on, with all of the AirTran markings removed, of course.
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Their DC-9 and 737 of that generation are the first airliners I rode on. Good noises! :)
 


This is what I was doing in 89.

Quite honestly, I was content to fly LAX-LAS-LAX two weeks on one week off on a mail contract. However, as fate would have it, America West got the mail contract from Evergreen, I got furloughed, I didn't get hired at Continental or World, and I did get hired at UPS. And the rest is history...
 
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SeanD said:
This is also a pretty goofy paint job. I liked the gray version better. Allegiant paint also sucks.
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They could not keep the digital logos or designs because the previous owner, Dr. Jacob Schorr, owns them. He charges a fortune in licensing fees to use them. The 2007 livery represents the push to the Caribbean and South America as a carrier of leisure and family travelers. It is what it is!
 
"With the other USAir pictures, no one posted the "Three Shades of Rust" paint job?"

LOL! My Dad was a mechanic for Usairways starting in the Allegheny days. I still have fond memories of that "three shade of rust". Considering most of the carriers that made up Usair pre-Piedmont merger were Rust Belt cities, perhaps it was an unwitting homage to those carriers? Or it was just the 70's going on the 80's and everything looked like that. I still like bare metal fueselages, but the working to keep them looking good(unlike the 737 that's pictured) was a nightmare. Of course, with carbon fiber being the choice now, those days are gone.

I was working as a cleaner for Usairways in PIT when the DC-9's and MD-80's were retired. They looked so bad at the end and when the last one flew, the buff job was terrible.

I did like Valujets "Critter" too.
 
HRDiva said:
They could not keep the digital logos or designs because the previous owner, Dr. Jacob Schorr, owns them. He charges a fortune in licensing fees to use them. The 2007 livery represents the push to the Caribbean and South America as a carrier of leisure and family travelers. It is what it is!
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I always wondered why they changed the liveries so quickly after switching to the digital design. Thanks for the info!
 
Derg said:
Here, let me re-wind the clock:

"You're just a hater! Skybus is great and y'all are all overpaid! We're doing this right! We have senior captains from American and Delta working for us that are tired of the legacies! Derp derp derpy derp DUUUUUURP" :)
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Perhaps SkyBus would have had more success with senior Captains from People's Express and Braniff 3.


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Taking another walk down 70's memory lane! One of my faves as a kid in the era of air travel! Loved this airline.....and at the time, maybe it was because I thought they had a badass paint scheme! ;)

Either way........

Got to fly these cats many times before Continental gobbled them up.
 
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