Christmas Meltdown 2025

Who will suffer the most? And How?


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The problem with the Comet is they screwed up the tail. From nose to nacelles to square windows it is so sexy. Then they stick this old school looking tail on it. It just screws up the vibe. That is an even worse sin in my book than in-flight disintegration. Remember darlings, it's better to look good than to feel good.
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Only 5% of this forum will remember Fernando’s Hideaway.

Sigh
I voted for pure incompetence. I mean the last de ice vender we had put only type IV on top of snow filled wing. What’s the worst that could happen, right?

First major deicing event last year. It took us two hours to get from the gate to the number one slot for deicing on our own ramp. And I watched them attempt to deice a 321 with type four, then type one.

Hilarity ensued.
 
I non rev’ed to Montreal and it started snowing in SEA. Air Canada uses Delta to de-ice at the S gates in SEA. So I was wondering if it was any different than the clown show on our ramp. They put a bunch of type 4 on top of 2-3” of snow. I had a great view of it. I was only missing popcorn.
 
I non rev’ed to Montreal and it started snowing in SEA. Air Canada uses Delta to de-ice at the S gates in SEA. So I was wondering if it was any different than the clown show on our ramp. They put a bunch of type 4 on top of 2-3” of snow. I had a great view of it. I was only missing popcorn.

It’s a fairly solid deicing program when:

A. It’s not ATL
B. Pilots stay out of the way of people trying to do their jobs.
 
It’s a fairly solid deicing program when:

A. It’s not ATL
B. Pilots stay out of the way of people trying to do their jobs.

I think SEA has a lot of problems. In general. It’s never gotten sorted out since I have flown here regularly.

Not trying to pick on any one airline. I was just an amused pax watching from my seat.
 
Sadly, the Air Line that would clean shop with retro liveries isn’t planning on any ;(
Slip me Mr CEO's email and you will have full retro back to Huff Daland Dusters and moving forward through liveries. With the 100th year a really well done retro package, tied in with some other things would be highly appropriate as well as brand affirming.
 
I think the understanding is that I wouldn’t give out his private number. LOL
Oh sure... like I'd do something crazy. Like repurpose the RFK Jr-Nuzzi text, but about my harvest and former Delta liveries or something.

Wait...on second thought...
 
With the weird WX we have had in PHX this month (including a tornado 40ish miles NW of PHX) my vote is on Southwest and America West having a weather meltdown.
 
Well it may be SEA with the fuel shortage. Long haul and some Alaska flights start making fuel stops.

A neat thing about this that I didn’t think about before today is that since everyone is tankering fuel into SEA everyone is getting there with a • ton of cold soaked fuel so everyone is having to deice which as we all know is a well oiled machine in SEA
 
A neat thing about this that I didn’t think about before today is that since everyone is tankering fuel into SEA everyone is getting there with a • ton of cold soaked fuel so everyone is having to deice which as we all know is a well oiled machine in SEA
Welp, picked a great week to forget to bid vacation.

(Turkey day was auto awarded since I forgot)
 
A neat thing about this that I didn’t think about before today is that since everyone is tankering fuel into SEA everyone is getting there with a • ton of cold soaked fuel so everyone is having to deice which as we all know is a well oiled machine in SEA
That sounds like fun! I’ve noticed a few DL and AS flights stopping in PSC.
 
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