A friend sent us this link of vintage airline commercials that was posted to the Facebook fan page of USAirways pilot Sully Sullenberger. We thought they were a great big fun time waster. North Central http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQFaVy0Kl2Y National http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbWWF7nBV84 Southern http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tgmHGqtDv TWA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RnhwK8Id3Y Southwest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-g0yOFUlOQ UAL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPWTcu0yPGs Delta http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBm1YEO4Q_Q Eastern http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf9sJSvzpqE Western http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfmRKHtzfFs PSA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOtv1lQ3Sgw Braniff [...]
Sully’s Vintage Airline Commercials
February 4th, 2010 · No Comments
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History Celebrated by Continental Airlines
July 1st, 2009 · No Comments

HOUSTON – Look out for a new Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL) Boeing 737-900ER, which is painted with a retro livery to commemorate the airline’s 75th anniversary, which will be celebrated July 15, 2009. The livery was was originally used on aircraft beginning in 1947 and is called The Blue Skyway, was picked by Continental employees. [...]
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Top Five Coolest Retro Airplane Brands
June 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

A plane is a plane, and if it flies, it looks like an airplane because it is an airplane. Unfortunately, that is not always true with commercial and private planes. Some airplanes, for instance have a nose too long, or a body too thin and narrow, giving the plane a pointy appearance. This is the [...]
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We’re Taking the AirTran Cirque B-717 to Orlando
July 10th, 2008 · No Comments
On Monday, the AirTran unveiled a “Say YES to Orlando” wrapped airplane with a special performance from the resident company La Nouba by Cirque du Soleil. The unveiling of the Air Tran “Say YES to Orlando” airplane was timed this week to coincide with AirTran’s special promotion on airfares across the country, including its many [...]
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We’re Lovin’: Ethiopian Airlines
June 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Ethiopian Airlines. One of the last surviving pieces of Trans World Airlines (it was once run by TWA), the African airline has survived Civil War, famine and economic crisis. But how could anything so great and so cool survive so long? The question should how could it not, with its founding by Emperor Haile Selassie, [...]
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