Call me old fashioned...

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I'll see your tomato can and raise it with a can of apple juice!
 
Probably already been said (11 pages of airline nerdporn is too much for my fainting southern belle stamina), but I think the outgoing American scheme is absolutely classic, as was the 90s Delta scheme.

I mean, honestly. All over the world, giant polished bird with the red white and blue cheat lines...you know who it is. Now it's a white airplane with some white, red, and blue on the tail. Air France? Delta? American? Who knows! Also: Who cares? *yawn*
 
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Sorry to ruin this thread but I'm going to post a pic of a commuter airline (you kids might know it as a regional). This was back when a commuter airline had props in stead of a jet.

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I'm not going to get too sentimental here. But growing up I lived about a mile from the airport that this airline flew out of. From grade school to 1996 I could literally set my alarm clock to when the first show time was.
 
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Washington National's unofficial de-icing truck!(too soon?)

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Here's one back from my CFI days that I'd see shooting approaches into Oakland:
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Sierra Expressway! Now that was a shortlived airline. "Hey, Mid Pacific is doing it from San Jose, Westair is doing it from San Francisco, lets do some Jetstream regional routes from Oakland!". The airline offered ground transportation and discounts on tickets to the Monterey Bay Aqauarium. Driving? Ain't nobody got time for that! Except for all those empty seats, of course. I spy some Reno Air Express Jetstreams on the left of that pic, that was a pretty sexy livery on a not so sexy airplane.
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While I was stationed at Fort Polk, LA in the late 60s, the army airfield on post was served by Trans Texas DC-3s. The airfield was in the midst of the rifle ranges. Every time the snarling Douglas got in-range for the field, all of the shooting ranges ceased firing and grounded all weapons.

They didn't want a pissed off draftee bagging himself a DC-3 before going to south-east Asia.
 
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Whatusername said:
Sorry to ruin this thread but I'm going to post a pic of a commuter airline (you kids might know it as a regional). This was back when a commuter airline had props in stead of a jet.

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I'm not going to get too sentimental here. But growing up I lived about a mile from the airport that this airline flew out of. From grade school to 1996 I could literally set my alarm clock to when the first show time was.
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What do you mean, "had?"
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H46Bubba said:
Here are a few of my favs!

Love the Piedmont Fokker-28's. The interim merger polished aluminum look was a nice look.



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Doug should know this one!
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HELL YEAH!

WestAir was "The Place to Be"(tm) if you were a pilot on the west coast looking to break into the industry. Jetstreams, Brasilias, BAe-146's... Bases all over California.

My "Go To" example for guys that get too heady about how their regional is better than another, they (and even mainline carriers) can go the way of WestAir.

It's a fickle business.
 
Derg said:
HELL YEAH!

WestAir was "The Place to Be"(tm) if you were a pilot on the west coast looking to break into the industry. Jetstreams, Brasilias, BAe-146's... Bases all over California.

My "Go To" example for guys that get too heady about how their regional is better than another, they (and even mainline carriers) can go the way of WestAir.

It's a fickle business.
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Yep. They had a huge operation out of SEA, LAX, SFO, and PDX...and it was all replaced overnight by Skywest(and Great Lakes in LAX) without a hick-up to the United passangers. I remember as an 8 year old one day there were Jetstreams everywhere at SFO, the next day, nothing but Brasilias. Its crazy how fast a change in regional partners can take place.
 
ChasenSFO said:
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.
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You didn't miss anything. I flew them in their very early days CMH-BUR and about 2 hours in, was really desperate to be off that plane. Granted, I had done a red-eye the night before to get to PHL then a delayed WN flight to CMH.

Our cabin crew were (as I dryly nicknamed at the time), Forward Gay Boy, Aft Gay Boy, and Token Female. And yes, just like Ryanair, there was the trolley trash for sale that nobody bought (as far as I could tell). The catering has already been on the plane for 3 legs, and you weren't permitted to bring anything on board to eat, or so they claimed.
 
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