All the knowledge that flight attendants have about safety and serving the customer doesn’t happen over night. Employees will spend weeks training, most of the time using an aircraft interior mock-up. Last week, Virgin America installed a new Airbus A320 mock up at their Burlingame, California Headquarters. It is unknown if the training A320 comes with techno music standard or if you need to bring your own.
You can also check out photos of the process that Virgin America posted on their Facebook.
This is a classic commercial for Republic Airlines. I chose it not only for the retro Boeing 727 and DC-9, but for sharing the idea of positive letters. Believe it or not, airlines actually do receive letters like this and I have been to more than one airline headquarters where they proudly display them on the wall, to remind workers that some folks are appreciative. For most airlines, all letters (good or bad) are read.
The Republic Airlines in this video is not the same today that operates Frontier. In 1986 Republic Airlines was purchased by Northwest Airlines, which is now part of Delta.
This video was shot in Los Angeles, CA at Ontario International Airport (ONT) in 2009. On its own, it is a pretty slick video showing a bit of airport operations and of course aircraft. The video was made by Greg Strasz who is a visual effects art director who has worked on movies like 2012 and soon to-be release Anonymous. Yea, not too shabby work huh? Although he loves video effects, he also loves aviation and shot this video to provide as a reference for his VFX department to the director of 2012. Obviously it worked. If I remember there was a pretty slick shot of the main character flying a plane under a falling building in the movie. Ah yea.
How do airlines figure out how to charge for tickets? Probably not like this, but this is still a great Alaska Airlines commercial. This is not the first time that Alaska has shown the bad practices of Sky High Airlines. Back in the 1980’s Alaska showed how poorly Sky High would handle your bags.
I love a good time-lapse video. This one is brought to you by the very busy Boston Logan International Airport (BOS). The author recorded one hour and ten minutes of video and reduced it down to about two and a half minutes.
On his YouTube posting he stated he would have preferred to record a bit longer, but local law enforcement thought it might not be such a great idea (even though what he was doing was not illegal). I think it is interesting to see how the aircraft don’t go 100% straight when taking off. Enjoy!