Check out this blog for a little mis-information humor.
If you don’t care about facts and like a little humor with airlines and the local Seattle area, then you should check out The Airline Blogger blog.
This local anonymous blogger recently started sharing his mis-knowledge recently and lives in the Seattle area. He is blogging anonymously, but I know the guy. I can assure you that he literally knows nothing about aviation and I think he actually believes most of what he is posting.
From talking about the DreamLifter being the new comet rocket (it’s not, obviously) to taking really really bad photos with fences in the way . He tells me getting the fence makes it “real”… but I think more like “real” bad.
The man behind this blog let me ask him a few questions to try and learn where he is coming from:
AirlineReporter (me): Who are you?
TheAirlineBlogger (TAB): Who am I? That is such an open question. Who are you?
Me: Why are you writing this blog?
TAB: I have found myself asking question after question trying to understand planes and the airline industry. After hanging out around airline nerds listening to them discuss the crazy things they hear when non airline people share their ideas on the industry, I figured I could stop asking questions and start making assumptions and possibly provide a little amusement along the way. I have found that a lot of “real” media people don’t need to check facts and can say whatever they want, so why can’t I?
Me: You live by Paine Field?
TAB: “By” is relative compared to most people in the world who enjoy planes I live near by. As a kid I lived the first 12 years of my life 2 miles from Paine Field. My elementary school mascot was the “Flyers” because we were so close to it. Today I live “by” Paine Field compared to someone in Jersey, but not “by” Paine Field like I did when I was younger.
Me: Are you afraid people might think your information is valid?
TAB: What do you mean? Are you saying you believe the content in my blog is not valid? As far as I am concerned everything I am blogging is valid. If it is on the internet, it has to be true right?
Me: What is your favorite plane?
TAB: My favorite plane is SpaceShipFour, yea outside of myself, Burt Rutan, Paul Allen and Sir Richard Branson not many people know about this fine craft. It is slated to be the first full orbital commercial airliner. While not practical it should be a blast to ride in. I hope to keep my readers up to date on this project as more details are leaked to me from my “inside source”.
I have found a lot of his stuff to be quite entertaining. Let’s see if he can keep it up.
S7 Airbus A310 VP-BTJ
You aren’t going to miss this livery rolling the down the runway. OJSC Siberia Airlines (but just call her S7) was founded in 1992 and is based in Novosibirsk, Russia.
The airline’s old livery was just a bit drab. With only color on the tail, a white body and some red writing. No one can say the newer S7 livery is bland. The interior is just as festive, check out this photo of the interior of an S7 Airbus A310; almost makes your eyes hurt.
Although the green livery looks good on the Airbus A310, A320, Boeing 737 and Boeing 767 fleet they currently fly, I think it looks best on the classic Tupolev TU-154 that they stopped flying in 2008. The TU-154’s were still flown under the GloBus livery which flew tourist flights until 2009.
In 2007 S7 put in an order for 15 Boeing 787 Dreamliners (would have loved to see that livery on a 787), but they were canceled in 2009 by S7. Just this month S7 was added to the Oneworld alliance, sponsored by British Airways.
Image: Anatoliy Zhuravlev
American Airlines Boeing 757-200 in Seattle.
If you will be flying American Airlines after December 1st and your flight leaves from 5:00pm to 5:59pm you get to enjoy their 5@5 Happy Hour. All alcoholic beverages will only cost $5 for the entire flight. Make sure to bring your cards, since the entire American fleet is cashless.
“As we wrap up the year, we want to show our customers that we appreciate their business. Offering an inflight happy hour is our small way of saying thank you,” said Rob Friedman, American’s Vice President ’“ Marketing. “We know travelers have many options for air travel and the 5@5 happy hour enhances the travel experience for our customers while adding an element of fun onboard during the holiday travel season.”
This seems like a good idea to remind folks that beverages are there to be purchased, especially during the snowy winter months coming up where passengers might enjoy a cheap drink or two.
Seeing how people are reacting to this news, some are saying this will just promote drinking while flying which is bad. I disagree. Someone who will abuse alcohol and cause issues is going to do it no matter the cost. Plus the flight attendants are trained how to tell a passenger when enough is enough. Cheers to American for this promotion.
Image: Drewski2112
I'd rather fly than take the Mayflower.
I hope everyone has a very Happy Thanksgiving and safe travels.
Although travel during the holidays can be a real pain, just remember what it was like for the first pilgrims to arrive to Plymouth Rock.
The Mayflower left England and took 66 days and had two deaths before reaching Massachusetts. Today, you can make the same journey in a few hours. Maybe that little delay and stale peanuts don’t seem so bad after all. Airline travel truly is amazing.
Panorama shot of Paine Field in the snow. Click for much bigger version.
This week we have had an unusual amount of snow in the Seattle area. Liz Matzelle wasn’t afraid of the snow and made her way up to Paine Field yesterday and got some amazing photos. She also created one fantastic panoramic image that she was happy to share. If the small 600 x 47 pixel image above is not big enough, then check out this 30000 x 2373 pixel version of Paine Field in the Snow Panorama (it might take a bit to load so don’t give up).
If you want to get your very own copy of this (would make a great gift), Liz is selling them online, check it out.
Zoom on in to the photo and see if you can find the following:
* White bodied ANA Boeing 787 Dreamliner
* One snowplow truck
* Two red navigation lights on the wing that appear to be on
* Totally white Boeing 787 Dreamliner
* Cessna on the taxi way
* A twin-engine airplane landing
* An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 getting work done
* Turkish Airlines Boeing 777 hiding behind the trees
* 13 Boeing 787 Dreamliners that look chilly
* The old school B-52 bomber
