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Passenger Trains > American Airlines follows railroads' exampleDate: 09/26/14 09:26 American Airlines follows railroads' example Author: GenePoon Following the example of Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern and Amtrak with its Heritage
locomotives, American Airlines will be painting some of its airplanes in the schemes of its predecessor airlines such as TWA, Reno Air, AirCal, Allegheny, America West, Piedmont, PSA and USAirways. This is the first American airliner in a heritage scheme, America West Airlines. The next to be released will be PSA (Pacific Southwest Airlines). Railroad-related: Piedmont Aviation was once owned by Norfolk and Western Railway. American Airlines photo: Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/26/14 09:31 by GenePoon.  Date: 09/26/14 09:44 Re: American Airlines follows railroads' example Author: altoonafn USAir has been doing this for a while. I'm not surprised this has been expanded with the USAir management team running the combined AA/US now
Posted from iPhone Date: 09/26/14 09:45 Re: American Airlines follows railroads' example Author: pennengineer I look forward to seeing a PSA smileliner again!
Date: 09/26/14 09:54 Re: American Airlines follows railroads' example Author: CarolVoss pennengineer Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > I look forward to seeing a PSA smileliner again! Mother Grinningbird is going to take us flying!! :-) C. Carol Voss Bakersfield, CA Date: 09/26/14 10:15 Re: American Airlines follows railroads' example Author: NYC_L4a Old news really though. AA merger has only relatively recently been a done deal. US Airways has had those heritage paint schemed A-319's for years; better part of a decade actually. Other Airlines have been doing that as well.
Date: 09/26/14 10:22 Re: American Airlines follows railroads' example Author: goneon66 pennengineer Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > I look forward to seeing a PSA smileliner again! hopefully with the flight attendants in the old psa uniforms....... 66 Date: 09/26/14 10:41 Re: American Airlines follows railroads' example Author: Pinecliffe Continental Airlines had a heritage plane before the merger with United that is still flying today.
Date: 09/26/14 10:50 Re: American Airlines follows railroads' example Author: DavidP Pinecliffe Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Continental Airlines had a heritage plane before > the merger with United that is still flying today. UA also has a United retro plane - A320 N475UA - although it's scheduled to exit the fleet shortly. Dave Date: 09/26/14 11:39 Re: American Airlines follows railroads' example Author: ctillnc American had a legacy jet prior to the US Airways deal.
Piedmont was never wholly owned by NS. NS held a 20% stake and tried to buy the remainder in 1987, but USAir outbid them. Date: 09/26/14 11:45 Re: American Airlines follows railroads' example Author: ColdRainAndSnow Reno Air was a nice little airline. Will be nice to see its alpine inspired livery again.
Date: 09/26/14 12:15 Re: American Airlines follows railroads' example Author: march_hare As a former Agony Airlines customer, I'm afraid an Allegheny heritage plane might trigger PTSD. Worst airline I have ever flown on (Aeroflot included).
Date: 09/26/14 12:43 Re: American Airlines follows railroads' example Author: Railfan83 Posted September 24, 2014 on American Airlines' Facebook page.....
 Date: 09/26/14 12:45 Re: American Airlines follows railroads' example Author: GP25 goneon66 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > pennengineer Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I look forward to seeing a PSA smileliner > again! > > hopefully with the flight attendants in the old > psa uniforms....... > > 66 Im looking forward to seeing that too Jerry Martin Los Angeles, CA Central Coast Railroad Festival Date: 09/26/14 12:55 Re: American Airlines follows railroads' example Author: icancmp193 I think I once flew on all of the predecessor lines except (oddly) Reno Air, since I generally fly out of Reno. My first flight ever was on Allegheny from Allentown to Pittsburgh.
Tom Y Date: 09/26/14 13:04 Re: American Airlines follows railroads' example Author: knotch8 We Piedmont Airlines fans always rued the day that Ed Colodny got his hands on Piedmont. There's a reason why USAir was said to stand for "Unfortunately Still Allegheny In Reality."
Date: 09/26/14 13:07 Re: American Airlines follows railroads' example Author: Topfuel GP25 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > goneon66 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > pennengineer Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > I look forward to seeing a PSA smileliner > > again! > > > > hopefully with the flight attendants in the old > > psa uniforms....... > > > > 66 > > Im looking forward to seeing that too Yeah, well, that all sounds great. Until you realize that those air waitresses who wore those uniforms still work for American and are now 65 years old. If the airlines started hiring young, attractive WOMEN again, then we would be on to something with the old uniforms. But of course, sadly, you could never get away with those old uniforms in America today. Date: 09/26/14 14:17 Re: American Airlines follows railroads' example Author: WAF "How are they going to keep them down on the ground after they fly PSA".. 70s ad
Is cactus call sign retired in favor of American? Date: 09/26/14 14:25 Re: American Airlines follows railroads' example Author: pdt I thought Cactus was retired after the USair merger. I think I was still flying then...dont remember hearing
and "cactus" in later days Date: 09/26/14 16:12 Re: American Airlines follows railroads' example Author: kansas1 As a former frequent listener to UA Ch. 9, "cactus" was around after the USAir merger. Since UA has, for all intents and purposes, gotten rid of Ch. 9 for more than a year and a half, I can't tell you whether it is still in existence.
Date: 09/26/14 16:18 Re: American Airlines follows railroads' example Author: WAF kansas1 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > As a former frequent listener to UA Ch. 9, > "cactus" was around after the USAir merger. Since > UA has, for all intents and purposes, gotten rid > of Ch. 9 for more than a year and a half, I can't > tell you whether it is still in existence. Its a pilot thing, not UA policy. Pilots don't like us listening in on their job, same as us critizing your weather forecasting |