One of the most famous airline boarding music pieces is Cathay Pacific’s, but many don’t know the real name or who composed it.
After a deep dive on the internet, I found that it’s actually part of a five part suite composed for Dragonair. The five parts were written by Johnny Yim, who is a composer based out of Hong Kong. The one that most people know to be Cathay Pacific’s boarding music is the fourth movement, which is titled “Soaring High”.
Fun fact: Korean Air used to have 3 flights to and from LAX up until 2013-2015. 2 flights being to and from Seoul (KE17/18, KE12/11) and one flight to GRU (Sao Paulo) using either an A330-200 or 777-200ER.
A330s that were repainted into TAM’s final livery (PT-MVA - PT-MVN) had “Airbus A330” titles:
However, A330s that were delivered with that livery (PT-MVO - PT-MVV) had “Airbus A330-200” titles:
It also happens that the repainted ones had CF6 engines while the ones delivered with the final livery had PW4000s…
PT-MVA through PT-MVE, PT-MVM and PT-MVN: Are we a joke to you?
Then that begs the question, why did TAM choose to go for a mix of the two?
They also had a ton of A320 family aircraft with V2500 engines, but also quite a lot of CFM56-powered ones
Alaska Airlines ordered a single Boeing 747-100 in 1967 for service between Anchorage and Seattle. This order was canceled a year later in 1968, probably because someone put 1 and 1 together and realized their route network and fleet size were both in the single digits, and the company would go bankrupt if they went through with the mammoth operations behind such a large aircraft.
Cursed livery idea for… idk who does those on here nowadays.
They still do, really.
The A320ceo is certified to operate at SDU by the way, if I’m not mistaken?
I guess the past also applies because TAM isn’t officially a thing since 2016
LAN and Avianca Brasil are the only airlines to have operated the PW6000
Golden @Nugget Jets
non merci
Toblerone.
Fun fact, Denver was one of the few airports built to handle the A380 (not requiring airport upgrades to accommodate it), but they never got it aside from one emergency diversion.
Originally, the “Mriya” writing on the An-225 had a dotted “i”, as seen on the aircraft’s roll-out footage:
However that was changed shortly after (seen here at the 1989 Paris Air Show):
