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Post by Kahloke on Sept 25, 2008 18:20:56 GMT -8
Here's some good news, not to mention a big milestone: Sea-Tac's 3rd runway is finally complete and an Alaska Airlines 737 touched down on it for the very first time today. It wasn't a revenue flight - not yet anyway - today's touch and go's are part of the 3rd runway's certification process. Revenue flights won't get to use it until Nov 20, according to the news. This has been a long time coming. Here's the video report: www.komonews.com/home/video/29775914.html?video=pop&t=a
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Post by Kahloke on Oct 5, 2010 7:27:45 GMT -8
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Post by FNS on Oct 5, 2010 7:56:09 GMT -8
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Post by lmtengs on Oct 5, 2010 14:28:03 GMT -8
I agree with it being boring. I think the font that 'United' is printed in really bores it up. When the word "Continental" was printed on the side, the font made the scheme look not so bad. They should either change the paint scheme entirely, or change the font.
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Post by dofd on Oct 12, 2010 22:06:20 GMT -8
As a ex-pilot and someone who has seen the change in what people want to pay to travel; we could be hitting the point of white wash and block letters. By the way, most of my flying was cargo.
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Post by Kahloke on May 16, 2011 22:03:19 GMT -8
An Alaska Airlines 737-800 at Sea-Tac's North Satellite on May 12, 2011, courtesy of my iPhone. This plane was to be my winged chariot to San Diego.
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Post by Kahloke on Jun 27, 2011 18:30:35 GMT -8
A photo of Sea-Tac's North Satellite from the LINK Light Rail train. We took the train from the airport station into downtown Seattle on Sunday. Airports fascinate me, and naturally, I have taken a keen interest in the development and happenings at our local airport, Sea-Tac. In this photo, you can see how Alaska Airlines seems to be taking over more and more of North Satellite, which used to be strictly United territory. United's presence in Seattle has been steadily waning over the years, but the merger with Continental may give it a little boost. I'm curious if they will keep's Continental's gates on the B Concourse, or consolidate operations at North Satellite (my guess would be the latter). Anyway, in this photo, North Satellite is pretty busy with the following: 4 "Eskimo Tails", AKA Alaska Airlines, 737's. The ones at N1 and N3 appear to be 737-800's. The one at N2 is a 400 series aircraft. I can't tell what the one is on the other side at N8. 1 United 757 in the pre-merger livery (Tulip livery) 1 United 777 in the new "Continental" livery on the other side of the concourse 1 Air Canada A319 or A320 (kind of hard to tell from this photo) being pushed back 1 Delta 737 taxiing in the background
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Post by Political Incorrectness on Jun 27, 2011 21:04:28 GMT -8
It is hard to say. Some Horizon operations have moved into the B concourse, it might make sense for some Alaska operations to move to the B concourse and consolidate all Star Alliance operations to the North Satellite. Hard to say what will happen though.
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Post by Kahloke on Jun 28, 2011 7:57:45 GMT -8
It is hard to say. Some Horizon operations have moved into the B concourse, it might make sense for some Alaska operations to move to the B concourse and consolidate all Star Alliance operations to the North Satellite. Hard to say what will happen though. You're right, it is hard to say, especially the way the airline business is going. You never know which one is going to bite the dust next. That being said, I would love to see Alaska move out of North Satellite, and consolidate operations into Concourses B, C, and D in The Main Terminal. If Star Alliance were to group together in North Satellite, that would mean United/Continental, Air Canada, and US Airways would operate out of that terminal. That would open up some slots on Concourse A, where US Airways currently is.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Jul 24, 2011 12:08:27 GMT -8
June 25th seaplane sighting in Nanaimo's Newcastle Channel: Can anyone identify what type of seaplane this is?
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Post by Northern Exploration on Jul 24, 2011 12:28:11 GMT -8
June 25th seaplane sighting in Nanaimo's Newcastle Channel: Can anyone identify what type of seaplane this is? Initials T O (and first one isn't twin)
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Post by Starsteward on Jul 24, 2011 13:23:58 GMT -8
Turbo Otter
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Post by Low Light Mike on Jul 24, 2011 16:01:21 GMT -8
Thanks. The turbo look to the Beaver and Otter always throw me off. Now, here's an Otter from Seattle that I saw this week at Mansons Landing on Cortes Island.
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Post by Northern Exploration on Jul 25, 2011 12:51:08 GMT -8
Thanks. The turbo look to the Beaver and Otter always throw me off. Now, here's an Otter from Seattle that I saw this week at Mansons Landing on Cortes Island. Besides the overall size, the windows are a good identification clue. Turbo Beavers mostly retain the odd sized windows down the fuselage, including a trapezoid (think that is what the shape is called.) The Turbo Otters have more uniform windows that line up.
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Post by FNS on Oct 22, 2011 21:44:05 GMT -8
I have been slowly going through my collection of slides and negatives dating from about 1970 up to the dawn of the digital age. For the most part I am looking for scan-able images of ferries & trains. In doing so I have also come across some vintage airline photos which I think some of you might appreciate. So here goes... 3 - United Airlines Boeing 707 @ Vancouver Airport - 2 March 1973 photo © JST - Fujichrome 73-01-14 - VueScanAll these photos are hosted on my Flickr photo site. There will be more to come. If you look closely at the passenger windows, they are separated greatly and there's no needle attached to the vertical tail fin. This is actually a Douglas DC-8. Lots of people get these single deck four-engined jet planes mixed up in their identifying. Today's single deck four-engined passenger jet you see is the AirBus A340.
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Post by Northern Exploration on Oct 23, 2011 17:41:41 GMT -8
I have been slowly going through my collection of slides and negatives dating from about 1970 up to the dawn of the digital age. For the most part I am looking for scan-able images of ferries & trains. In doing so I have also come across some vintage airline photos which I think some of you might appreciate. So here goes... 3 - United Airlines Boeing 707 @ Vancouver Airport - 2 March 1973 photo © JST - Fujichrome 73-01-14 - VueScanAll these photos are hosted on my Flickr photo site. There will be more to come. If you look closely at the passenger windows, they are separated greatly and there's no needle attached to the vertical tail fin. This is actually a Douglas DC-8. Lots of people get these single deck four-engined jet planes mixed up in their identifying. Today's single deck four-engined passenger jet you see is the AirBus A340. I agree. The windows are also larger than a B707.
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 23, 2011 18:40:17 GMT -8
I said 707 for that plane only because that is what I wrote on the slide frame 39 years ago when I was 17. I did not know a lot about jet aircraft then, and I still don't.
I can usually tell my ferries apart, however.
BTW, thanks for the correction. I have updated the information I provided with that photo on my Flickr site.
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Post by Kahloke on Nov 13, 2011 14:18:46 GMT -8
This isn't an airline photo or video, but it is very much about airlines. There is an article in today's TNT (Tacoma News Tribune) about the upcoming reorganization and airline shuffle at Sea-Tac. Some of us have been speculating about where airlines are going to end up at Sea Tac in light of all the mergers and acquisitions that have happened over the last few years, such as Contintental and United, AirTran and Southwest, and Delta absorbing Northwest. Well, today's article spells out some of what is going to be happening at the airport over the next few years: late 2011: just recently, Airtran moved from Concourse A to Concourse B to be located with Southwest's operations on Concourse B. And, their ticket counter moved next to Southwest's, as well. This has already happened. the rest of the moves happen in 2013: Frontier goes from Concourse A to Concourse B. Hawaiian moves back to Concourse B from Concourse A (they used to be in Concourse B) Virgin America goes from A to B American and JetBlue go from A to D United and Continental merge together on Concourse A - United from North Satellite, and Continental from Concourse B. Among other things, this will put them in the same Concourse as US Airways, which I believe is in the same Alliance group as UA. Alaska fully takes over North Satellite, and renovates that terminal as well as Concourse C. It vacates some gates in Concourse D to allow American and JetBlue to move in. I guess other airlines will stay put. After 2013, the airport will most likely look like this: South SatelliteInternational AirlinesAsiana British Airways Condor Emirates EVA Hainan Icelandair Korean Lufthansa Delta (as a side note, the flights to Paris will be on Delta aircraft starting next year. Air France will no longer be flying their own metal to Seattle) Concourse ASun Country? (I wonder if this will eventually move to South Satellite to be with Delta? - No mention of it in the article) US Airways United/Continental (probably fully merged by then) Air Canada? (no mention of Air Canada in the article, but it is grouped with United right now. Will it be in the future? Who knows?) Concourse BFrontier Hawaiian Southwest/Airtran Virgin America Concourse C (will be renovated by Alaska) Alaska Horizon Concourse DAlaska (I'm assuming they will have a small presence left in D) American JetBlue North Satellite (will be renovated by Alaska) Alaska It's interesting times, to be sure. Here is a link to the full article: www.thenewstribune.com/2011/11/13/1904059/switching-positions.html
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Post by Political Incorrectness on Nov 13, 2011 23:28:35 GMT -8
I'd be certain that Star Alliance will control A Concourse. I would heavily consider having D concourse rennovated for some international operations or do it for the expansion of South Satellite. What it sounds like is they are trying to make more gates common-use in order to better suit demand without costly expansion. Although I still think it will be needed due to overflows that do occur at peak times.
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Post by Kahloke on Dec 28, 2011 16:34:47 GMT -8
Something a little different than ferries. Here are Some of my Sea Tac photos from 12-21-2011: Horizon Air Ramp action as seen from the big glass wall in the Central Terminal area - sorry about the reflection In this photo, you see a Q400 in the old Horizon livery, which I really like, a CR7 in the new AS Livery (probably has "Operated by Skywest" in small titles near the front door), a CR7 in Skywest Livery, a Montana State Q400 theme plane, plus a bunch of other Q400's in the new AS and old QX liveries. I'm sorry to see the Horizon identity disappear. Another view of the Horizon Ramp from the Central Terminal area: this view shows the two "comfortably Greener" Q400 theme planes Some Concourse A action here: seen here is a Frontier A320 with a bevy of other aircraft in the background, which include a Southwest 737-700 parked at Concourse B, a US Airways A320 taxiing in, a United 777 at South Satellite, and 2 Delta A330's at South Satellite This was just fun. This castle set up at Gate A9 is by American Airlines for their Snowball Express, a charity for the children of fallen military heroes I love the entry door to the jetway A view down part of Concourse A - it's a really long concourse Some of the interesting art that can be found on Concourse A This "Rube Goldberg" like device travels along a track which parallels the people mover I love Hawaiian Airlines livery, as seen here on an HA 767 Some of the tails you currently see parked at Concourse A: front to back: American Airlines 737-800, Virgin America A320, Frontier A320, US Airways A320 Lastly, the Delta 737-800 that was to be our plane from Seattle to Cincinnati, docked at the South Satellite
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Post by Name Omitted on Apr 28, 2012 10:07:37 GMT -8
Now that Horizon is being rebranded with the Alaska brand, does anyone know how much longer the special liveries (all the university liveries) will fly the Horizon nameplate?
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Post by Political Incorrectness on Apr 28, 2012 12:15:13 GMT -8
Now that Horizon is being rebranded with the Alaska brand, does anyone know how much longer the special liveries (all the university liveries) will fly the Horizon nameplate? They will all probably remain would be my best guess, they wouldn't do the Montana State one just to repaint it in one year.
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Post by Kahloke on May 27, 2012 13:31:22 GMT -8
Our ride home from San Diego last Monday, an Alaska Airlines 737-900 series aircraft - the longest of the 737 series (seen here at San Diego): Sunset from 33,000ft somewhere over Northern California:
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Post by Koastal Karl on May 27, 2012 16:09:46 GMT -8
ooh nice! Sunset is one of my favorite times to fly!
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Post by Koastal Karl on Jul 23, 2012 17:04:01 GMT -8
Me and my g/f are gonna be flying United next month which will be a first for us. Never flown on a commuter jet CRJ and 757 before so that should interesting and I hope to get some photos too!
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