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Old Mar 25, 2024, 11:48 am
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Originally Posted by pesos
Ah the good ol days. I flew vx all the time for years around CA as well as out to NY and back. Loved it. Refuse to fly Alaska after they destroyed everything special about it
Yet here you are a decade later, still lurking around the Alaska forum.
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Old Mar 25, 2024, 11:54 am
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Originally Posted by StevenSeagalFan
Why won’t people just let airline brands die? PanAm, TWA… Virgin America… there’s a reason they went bye bye.
The TWA brand lives on at the TWA Hotel at JFK.
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Old Mar 25, 2024, 12:59 pm
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I'm in. Acquired ticket on the chance I could get there from Idaho. Then this morning duty called and I had to move a trip up a week which placed my return via SFO right within the window of opportunity. Really looking forward to seeing Fred Reid again. He was on the inaugural IAD-SFO flight I took back in the day. I want to thank him for the many, many great experiences I had with VX.

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Old Mar 25, 2024, 1:01 pm
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Originally Posted by BrandonAB
The TWA brand lives on at the TWA Hotel at JFK.
It lives on with all the trips I took in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s before the dark times, before the empir...Ichan.

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Old Mar 25, 2024, 1:05 pm
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Originally Posted by jsguyrus
Yet here you are a decade later, still lurking around the Alaska forum.
Perhaps he isn't lurking, but trying to make a point on the chance it would improve AS. Just Saying. No need to attack the poster; ff rules and all...

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Old Mar 25, 2024, 1:15 pm
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Originally Posted by BrandonAB
The TWA brand lives on at the TWA Hotel at JFK.
And the Pan Am building in Honolulu is still there and still Pan Am branded.
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Old Mar 25, 2024, 1:30 pm
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Originally Posted by StevenSeagalFan
Why won’t people just let airline brands die? PanAm, TWA… Virgin America… there’s a reason they went bye bye.
Nostalgia is a powerful drug. I say this as I am shuffling a deck of Eastern Air Lines cards.
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Old Mar 25, 2024, 2:11 pm
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Originally Posted by AKLifetimeFlyer
Nostalgia is a powerful drug. I say this as I am shuffling a deck of Eastern Air Lines cards.

I for one regret that I never booked a flight on PanAm or TWA. Or that I never crossed the Atlantic on Concorde.

But I did fly on VX a few times. Always in coach, on short hops from SFO to LAS or back.
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Old Mar 25, 2024, 3:22 pm
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Originally Posted by BrandonAB
The TWA brand lives on at the TWA Hotel at JFK.
And AA retro livery.
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Old Mar 25, 2024, 3:32 pm
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Originally Posted by cyborg
Perhaps he isn't lurking, but trying to make a point on the chance it would improve AS. Just Saying. No need to attack the poster; ff rules and all...

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Well, the plates are more interesting, but the utensils are just as cheap as before
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Old Mar 25, 2024, 4:44 pm
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Originally Posted by Eastbay1K
Well, the plates are more interesting, but the utensils are just as cheap as before
I guess any utensil can be bent if enough effort is applied although the post 911 plastic ones would require special skills...

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Old Mar 25, 2024, 5:41 pm
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Originally Posted by jsguyrus
Yet here you are a decade later, still lurking around the Alaska forum.
2018 is a decade? Strange math you use - where I'm from a decade is 10 years, but it is a big wide world I suppose.

I do occasionally glance through the top threads from almost all the airline subforums to see what piques interest and try and stay informed. Alaska I have actually kept an eye on a bit more frequently of late since the Boeing blowout. Do I have your permission to continue ? XD
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Old Mar 26, 2024, 10:45 pm
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aren't we allowed to be nostalgic towards an airline that was nice for some of us?

I'd love to host a soiree or something for those of us who miss Alaska Airlines from 2014 and earlier - back when we had cheeseburgers in coach, annoying prayer card, carpeted bulkheads, handheld (and seat-held sorta) DigePlayers, and actual lettuce in salads in First Class.
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Old Mar 27, 2024, 7:41 am
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and actual limes in g&ts, and Woodford …
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Old Mar 27, 2024, 7:49 am
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Originally Posted by UAPremierExec
aren't we allowed to be nostalgic towards an airline that was nice for some of us?

I'd love to host a soiree or something for those of us who miss Alaska Airlines from 2014 and earlier - back when we had cheeseburgers in coach, annoying prayer card, carpeted bulkheads, handheld (and seat-held sorta) DigePlayers, and actual lettuce in salads in First Class.
Of course we are, and we all have memories of what we really miss - 1995 and earlier, back when we had real meals in coach, and three course meals on 500+ mile flights, and a salad cart on the lunch/dinner service SEA/ANC..
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