Airline Slogans - your favorite ?

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May 16, 2011
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Who are they and what's your favorite ??

More experience than our name implies

Keep climbing

Fly the friendly skies

Work hard, fly right

Fly smart

The joy of flying

No ordinary airline

Up up and away

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Mortimer IOU

Inspiring

TWA

"Up, up, and awaaaaay"

Very prophetic

able123Author

Inspiring

I just heard yesterday on some news program that some airline is offering a new "coach" upgrade thing ...where for about $160 more per ticket you get 4 inches more leg room, and the seats go back 50% MORE.....

Yikes ! The guy in front will have his head in your LAP ! Might be like dominoes...where if the guy in the very front reclines, everyone in that row will also need to recline... ???

A Silly Story.. the punch-line never got to be an offical slogan ( unfortunately )

Years ago I was flying from NY to Denver via Continental. The airline had just had some kind of major problem ( bankruptcy and restructure ? ) and was now working with no more union employees at JFK... Also, they had no "gate" anymore. All the other union affiliated airlines didn't like the Continental planes cause they thought Continental had done the bankruptcy thing in part to "bust" the union. So at JFK that day all the people working for the other airlines... near the Continental plane getting ready to go to Denver ...looked at that plane and made faces and thumbed their noses etc. Nobody offered the use of a "gate". So we passengers were directed to some seating area and told to wait there.... We didn't really know what was going on. We didn't know we were going to be escorted out a door, down some stairs onto the ramp, and then use some portable staircase to get on the plane... While trying to figure out where our plane was and what was going to happen all the other airline employees came by and made faces at us. We saw nobody from "Continental" until finally one of their employees came into our area...( sorta between a couple gates ).. and YELLED AT THE TOP OF HIS LUNGS ..." ANYONE GOING TO DENVER ??!! "

I always thought that was a no nonsense way to get our attention and get us herded to the plane....and wish it had become a slogan...

" ANYONE GOING TO .......? "

the_wine_snob

Inspiring

PAN AM TV SHOW

I keep thinking about this show and have to admit its the first one in 40 years or so of working on stuff that I feel really enthusiastic about... that I want to succeed for as long as the talent and writers and producers and everyone feels good about doing it...and audience loves.

Oddly, there's no advertising for it that I've seen in nyc area.

Oddly, what ads there are ( on abc website etc ) stresses " lives of stewardesses " ...which kinda limits the overall potential of the show IMO. After all, pan am was an air carrier.. with great stewardesses and great service etc...but it wasnt about the stewardesses. It was about travel.

Compared to travel today ( where everyone goes everywhere at the drop of a hat ), travel then was sorta a planned big deal for passengers. Like maybe once a year you would go somewhere as a vacationer...maybe once every 5 years.

Girls back then faced the taboo of sex before marriage.. as did men, though us men tend to forget that little fact of life nowadays. So I didnt pursue sex before marriage, and most girls I knew then ( back in 1967-69-70 ) didn't either. And we were already 17-18-19 years old etc.... not kids really, but not quite full time adults either.

Kids supposedly grow up faster today I guess, and with women's rights movement and " sex and the city" tv shows, it's hard to imagine that time period of " pan am " show... but it's true. You expected pan am to have beautiful stewardesses, but like most men of my age you thought of women as " better then men " in general, protected them instead of lusting after them, and tried to be on equal ground regarding a love for life and a good future for the world.

I hope the writers bring some history and unexplained incidents to the screen with this show. Like when my wife ( who worked for pan am at main office ) went to a bunch of middle east countries on a vacation ...and the plane got boarded in Kabul by a bunch of soldiers with machine guns... and walked through plane looking at everyone with fierce expressions on faces....and nobody ( including pilots ) had a CLUE what was going on...

Very scary.

No " answer " or explanation ever came...

That's what flying was like .. an adventure sometimes with no answers as to why things were crazy in other parts of the world.

And the stewardesses ( and pilots etc ) handled all this with class and I hope the show is brave enough to show us these things... back when flying was really comfortable and the planes weren't packed like cargo carriers.

I am with you on desires to see more than prime-time "soap," set in the middle of the last century, with a plane, or two involved. I want to see the "glory days" of commercial airline travel portrayed realistically. I grew up in that era, and fondly recall air travel then, though did not experience trans-Atlantic, or trans-Pacific air travel, until later, when things had already changed. Even at that time, I pined for a few decades before, with more interesting ships, and every gentleman wearing a suit and hat, and many women in hats and gloves. Air travel WAS a big deal then, rather like train travel, just a few years before.

There was also a lot going on regarding the men (mostly) behind the airlines, and the unique identity of each airline. It was more than ships and routes - think Braniff. I want a "trip back in time," and if there are individual characters' stories, I want air travel to be the leit motif of the series. However, I am not holding my breath. Unfortunately, the TV audience wants to see The Randy Housewives of East Lincolnshire, or similar. Unfortunately, I feel that that is what we will get, but maybe Pan Am will break new ground, just like Hill Street Blues, Twin Peaks, St. Elsewhere, and others did, 20 - 30 years ago. It will all depend on whether the producers are ONLY drawn by $, or whether they realize that they have a real potential groundbreaker on their hands. I am betting on The Randy Stewardesses of Pan Am, but hope that I am proved very wrong.

I want to see Hap Arnold, Juan Trippe and others, who shaped air travel in particular, and travel in general. I had the pleasure of knowing some of the later movers and shakers, like Frank Lorenzo (later Continental), Frank Borman (Eastern Airlines), Ed Beauvais and Bill Franke (America West Airlines - plus Doug Parker, the CEO of the new US Air) and some others. In their own way, they were pioneers, just like Walter Varney (UAL).

Naw, the potential is there, but all will depend on how it's handled. Time will tell.

In the meantime, I am looking closely at Virgin Atlantic's Upper Class, for my flights to Heathrow, as they seem to get it, and harken back to that earlier time. Maybe airline travel can regain some of the glory? Maybe everyone has not forgotten? Perhaps it will soon shake the Greyhound Bus image, that permiates the industry now. We'll see if "class" is still viable in our world.

Hunt

PS - I have been seeing the promos for ABC's Pan Am, in Arizona, San Francisco and Hawaii, so ads ARE playing. Not sure why the NYC market is bereft of them?