ASA Ship 849

[Airboss]

"In ASA history this week...
Five years ago, on Nov. 19, 1999, ASA unveiled a special livery for one of its 50-seat CRJs that featured the City of Atlanta and commemorated the airline's 20th anniversary. The livery, mostly green, blue and peach, depicted Atlanta's skyline, Stone Mountain and the phrase "Celebrating 20 Years." Ship N849AS still wears this special livery"

Any idea how much longer we have to deal with this paint scheme?

Any rumors about Blue Bonnett once we pull out of DFW?

 

[Oakum_Boy]

The original had a peach painted on the tail before it was painted solid blue. Apparently it looked like a bare arse. Wish I had a pic...

 

[jetstream]

I think we should paint a confederate flag on the vertical stabilizer of our aircraft and change our call sign to rebel.

Then we get General Lee to take over as president of ASA.

 

[goofyleftwich]

better yet......."redneck" or "hill billy"

 

[General Lee]

Jetstream,


Thanks for the nod. The first thing I would do is sell all of the RJs (with premission from my new pal Gerry Grinstein) and replace them with cheaper airplanes, like Shorts 360s. Those Winnebeggos were "hot" in the day, and I am not just talking about the lack of air conditioning. We would use those airplanes on special intra-Georgia routes, like Valdosta to Athens, and then onto Albany, with a short "technical" stop in La Grange, our newest Delta gateway. Those flights would be at night mostly, flying rubber dog $**CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED**, and left over bags we couldn't carry on our other "new" airplanes---the EMB-110 or "Bandit." I think replacing the RJs with these "new" aircraft could really lift the spirits of of our happy employees, as well as cause severe hearing loss. Enjoy the new fleet boys, I will be driving to the Ritz Carlton in Buckhead in my new BMW for a quick brunch.....


Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[Mikes Apartment]

Jetstream,


Thanks for the nod. The first thing I would do is sell all of the RJs (with premission from my new pal Gerry Grinstein) and replace them with cheaper airplanes, like Shorts 360s. Those Winnebeggos were "hot" in the day, and I am not just talking about the lack of air conditioning. We would use those airplanes on special intra-Georgia routes, like Valdosta to Athens, and then onto Albany, with a short "technical" stop in La Grange, our newest Delta gateway. Those flights would be at night mostly, flying rubber dog $**CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED**, and left over bags we couldn't carry on our other "new" airplanes---the EMB-110 or "Bandit." I think replacing the RJs with these "new" aircraft could really lift the spirits of of our happy employees, as well as cause severe hearing loss. Enjoy the new fleet boys, I will be driving to the Ritz Carlton in Buckhead in my new BMW for a quick brunch.....


Bye Bye--General Lee

General, you're way out of line. The Bandit is too expensive to operate on those kind of routes. I think maybe you could do better with Robinson R22s and Blimps.

 

[General Lee]

How about when I can't get going in the morning? Me too you silly man!



Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[Sinca3]

Silly

Me too you silly man!
Bye Bye--General Lee

Now that my man was funny!!

Cheers

 

[General Lee]

Sorry, that is enough of that!



Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[homerjdispatch]

Wow!!! Now that is funny!!!

 

[bailout]

Well, the ATL paint looks ALOT better than the Texas flowers.....

I personally liked the Olympic paint.

 

[WWEfan]

Yeah, the Olympic paint scheme was the best, but unfortunately had the shortest lifespan. The current paint scheme on ship 849 is just horrible in my opinion. I have so many pax ask me what the hell it even is. Once I tell them they are like, "Oh." Surely the think tank of flightinfo.com can think of something better to represent the ATL.

Here are some ideas:
1. Pro sports theme
2. Local corporate sponsors (Coke, HD, Ted Turner, etc.)
3. MosDef
4. Just paint it like the rest of the fleet

Anyone else?

 

[Mikes Apartment]

How about when I can't get going in the morning? Me too you silly man!



Bye Bye--General Lee

I'll hit you with my purse and slap the taste out of your mouth!!
Straigten up sailor!!

 

[General Lee]

Hi, my name is Al Reynolds and I just married Star Jones because of her LOOKS.....


Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[601Pilot]

"In ASA history this week...
Five years ago, on Nov. 19, 1999, ASA unveiled a special livery for one of its 50-seat CRJs that featured the City of Atlanta and commemorated the airline's 20th anniversary. The livery, mostly green, blue and peach, depicted Atlanta's skyline, Stone Mountain and the phrase "Celebrating 20 Years." Ship N849AS still wears this special livery"

Any idea how much longer we have to deal with this paint scheme?

Any rumors about Blue Bonnett once we pull out of DFW?

Didn't we try to kill this airplane a while back by breaking the gear on landing in ATL, aka Slider 2? I think she'll be around for a while!

 

[katanabob]

Didn't we try to kill this airplane a while back by breaking the gear on landing in ATL, aka Slider 2? I think she'll be around for a while!

Actually, wasn't it Slider 3? I thought 1 and 2 were both Brasilias.

 

[Lolikoka]

Kudzu?

How 'bout we paint it with a Kudzu vine to symbolize the way we're slowly taking over the flying throughout the South.

 

[ifly4food]

"In ASA history this week...
Five years ago, on Nov. 19, 1999, ASA unveiled a special livery for one of its 50-seat CRJs that featured the City of Atlanta and commemorated the airline's 20th anniversary. The livery, mostly green, blue and peach, depicted Atlanta's skyline, Stone Mountain and the phrase "Celebrating 20 Years." Ship N849AS still wears this special livery"

Any idea how much longer we have to deal with this paint scheme?

Any rumors about Blue Bonnett once we pull out of DFW?

Ditch the "Ghetto Jet"? Copy Dat!

 

[T-Gates]

JThose Winnebeggos were "hot" in the day, and I am not just talking about the lack of air conditioning.

Are you inferring that the Shorts is not a sexy airplane?

 

[Ailerongirl]

The original had a peach painted on the tail before it was painted solid blue. Apparently it looked like a bare arse. Wish I had a pic...

It really looked like a butt...I did a double take the first time I saw it. I had a camera ready for the next time, but it had already been redone by then.

What happened to the Olympic paint scheme?

 

[ProLine4]

What happened to the Olympic paint scheme?

Ship 869 Olympic has been repainted into the Wavy Gravy. Only thing denoting what it used to wear is a small plaque on the forward bulkhead facing the door. Skywest is still running their Olympicjet around with just a white tail though.

Only logojets we have now are 849 Ghettojet (good name whoever came up with that), 869 Bluebonnet (so much for that one), 740 Silver and Soaring, and 920 with the "100 CRJs and Climbing" megatitles.

 

[shamrock]

Haven't seen the PansyJet (Blue Bonnet) in a while. Should've kept the Olympic scheme and ditched that one.

Is there only one "Silver and Soaring" plane? Maybe my brain has been fried by all the naps I've been doing, but I thought I heard something about there being a problem with the first one so they painted another and now we have 2.

 

[sweptback]

Only logojets we have now are 849 Ghettojet (good name whoever came up with that), 869 Bluebonnet (so much for that one), 740 Silver and Soaring, and 920 with the "100 CRJs and Climbing" megatitles.

738 is also the Silver and Soaring scheme. I think 738 was one of the airplanes that flew sideways, and it wasn't looking like BBD would be able to get it to us before the "celebration." So, they painted the next one off the line in the same scheme, just to make sure we had one for all the "festivities".

 

[ifly4food]

Ship 869 Olympic has been repainted into the Wavy Gravy. Only thing denoting what it used to wear is a small plaque on the forward bulkhead facing the door. Skywest is still running their Olympicjet around with just a white tail though.

Only logojets we have now are 849 Ghettojet (good name whoever came up with that), 869 Bluebonnet (so much for that one), 740 Silver and Soaring, and 920 with the "100 CRJs and Climbing" megatitles.

Ship 920 should say "100 CRJs and climbing at 300 feet per minute".

 

[wrigley23]

Ship 920 should say "100 CRJs and climbing at 300 feet per minute".

Hey! 500 feet per minute now that it's winter!