Final Flight #1 12-28-2014

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Dec 28, 14, 10:37 pm

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chuckworth

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Final Flight #1 12-28-2014

Listening in on LiveATC, Tampa approach kept referring to the flight as "Citrus 1" but was corrected by the FO who reminded them the flight was officially filed as "Critter 1".

Dec 29, 14, 7:30 am

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mke9499

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Great coverage of the final day from Airways News:

http://airwaysnews.com/blog/2014/12/...final-flights/

From swamedia.com:

http://www.swamedia.com/releases/sou...flight?l=en-US

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Dec 29, 14, 3:05 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by chuckworth

Listening in on LiveATC, Tampa approach kept referring to the flight as "Citrus 1" but was corrected by the FO who reminded them the flight was officially filed as "Critter 1".

Someone has compiled that all here

New link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XZftXIkHOc

The 180 center in ATL was for the water cannon salute.

Last edited by traveller001; Dec 31, 14 at 1:02 am

Dec 29, 14, 11:35 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by chuckworth

Listening in on LiveATC, Tampa approach kept referring to the flight as "Citrus 1" but was corrected by the FO who reminded them the flight was officially filed as "Critter 1".

Interesting that the crew reverted to their J7 roots for the final flight.

Goodbye Museair, Critter, Wasatch, Amtran, and now Citrus. You're all Southwest now. :-:

Dec 30, 14, 10:35 am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by traveller001

Someone has compiled that all here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=3U7aT1sbZsk

The 180 center in ATL was for the water cannon salute.

Appears to have been removed from YouTube as of the morning of 12-30-2014.

Dec 30, 14, 4:56 pm

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LegalTender

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Re-posted with better quality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XZftXIkHOc

Dec 31, 14, 12:43 am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by JoeFlyer

I'm going to message several of you, but who will be there for the flight tonight? Please PM me with your name and mobile number as I have a reporter that would like to connect with travelers in advance of the flight. She will be on the flight as well.

Joe, I didn't know You were even going to be on the flight or I would have welcomed You and thanked YOU for your help and Airtran travel.

I'm pretty sure Southwest will want to keep You when hearing the full story.

Who knows maybe they might even call You to DAL?

IMO a real BC is something WN could monetize way better than BS or six extra seats they added per aircraft.

Dec 31, 14, 1:18 am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Tanic

Interesting that the crew reverted to their J7 roots for the final flight.

Goodbye Museair, Critter, Wasatch, Amtran, and now Citrus. You're all Southwest now. :-:

Captain of Airtran 1 was a J7 pilot. Many of the crew were former J7 as well. (while a few non-rev bookings existed this might actually enter the record books as most profitable FL flight ever flown per seat mile as fares were not low at any point)

You have to admit Airtran grew up a lot from it's J7 roots. To one of the safest, most on-time and better at bags despite the rapid growth.

I'd love to see Southwest match Airtran's AQR record.

Last edited by traveller001; Oct 10, 15 at 8:21 pm