FlyDeltaJets From United States of America, joined Feb 2006, 1245 posts, RR: 1 Posted (5 years 9 months 1 week 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 4777 times:
Today when I was leaving MCO around 1600 local I saw a Vrigin Blue A320 at the LiveTv hangar. Are they flying those planes all the way to Florida to put the PTV's in.
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Luv2fly From United States of America, joined May 2003, 11570 posts, RR: 53 Reply 1, posted (5 years 9 months 1 week 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 4771 times:
Yes, gotta do something with them since still no certificate to fly passengers.
Hiflyer From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 2042 posts, RR: 4 Reply 3, posted (5 years 9 months 1 week 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 4753 times:
Ok...let's see...
Virgin Blue is down under and flying with 737 equipment without PTV.
Have they lost their certificate? Have they gone to 737's? Are they adding US TV?
MCOflyer From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 8423 posts, RR: 16 Reply 4, posted (5 years 9 months 1 week 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 4747 times:
I think he meant Virgin America. Too cool if it is.
EMBQA From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 9177 posts, RR: 15 Reply 5, posted (5 years 9 months 1 week 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 4719 times:
Maybe one of the jetBlue A320 they are set to return that has already been painted having LiveTV removed...???
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog"
Luv2fly From United States of America, joined May 2003, 11570 posts, RR: 53 Reply 6, posted (5 years 9 months 1 week 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 4709 times:
Quoting EMBQA (Reply 5): Maybe one of the jetBlue A320 they are set to return that has already been painted having LiveTV removed...???
Since they are selling them and not returning them!
FlyDeltaJets From United States of America, joined Feb 2006, 1245 posts, RR: 1 Reply 7, posted (5 years 9 months 1 week 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 4661 times:
Quoting MCOflyer (Reply 4): I think he meant Virgin America. Too cool if it is.
MCOflyer From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 8423 posts, RR: 16 Reply 8, posted (5 years 9 months 1 week 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 4650 times:
Did Virgin Blue place an A320 order? FlyDeltaJets can you get a pic of it? Its neat to have this a/c @ MCO. how long will it be there?
Qfba From Australia, joined Feb 2004, 37 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (5 years 9 months 1 week 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 4603 times:
It a B737. DJ have purchsed the old screens that are being replaced by B6. The first plane has gone over along with DJ staff so they can then come back and retro fit the rest of the fleet in Aust.
DJ hope to have the entire fleet of 53 done within 8-12 months
L1011dal From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 128 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (5 years 9 months 1 week 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 4504 times:
I can also confirm it was a 737 Virgin Blue and not an Airbus or Virgin America since I saw the plane.
Alphaomega From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 460 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (5 years 9 months 1 week 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 4487 times:
Its definately Virgin Blue, not Virgin America - the aircraft have been doing approaches and other radio equipment tests at SFB during the night hours.
JetBlueAtJFK From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 1687 posts, RR: 7 Reply 12, posted (5 years 9 months 1 week 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 4453 times:
I doubt jetBlue would supply Virgin America with LiveTV when they can be called somewhat of a competetor if they ever get to flying.
Laxintl From United States of America, joined May 2000, 18914 posts, RR: 51 Reply 13, posted (5 years 9 months 1 week 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 4423 times:
Quoting JetBlueAtJFK (Reply 12): I doubt jetBlue would supply Virgin America with LiveTV when they can be called somewhat of a competetor if they ever get to flying.
I think Jetblue would be happy to supply Virgin America or any airline for that matter with LiveTV.
The division is meant to be a for profit company, and aggressively markets is services. As is WestJet and Frontier are North American TV customers, while XMRadio which is also marketed by LiveTV is being used by Airtran and United. Its only a matter of time before one of the majors jumps on the LiveTV band wagon now that the industry seems to be climbing out of its slump. When that happens I'm sure JetBlue would be more than happy to outfit a few hundred aircraft and garner the added revenue.
Also dont forget Jetblue recently received a license for inflight Wi-Fi, and has acknowledged its looking to offer the service to 3rd parties once up and running.
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Planecrazy2 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 615 posts, RR: 5 Reply 15, posted (5 years 9 months 1 week 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 4362 times:
Yes, they say it will be superior to jetBlue, we shall see.
JetBlueAtJFK From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 1687 posts, RR: 7 Reply 16, posted (5 years 9 months 1 week 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 4327 times:
Quoting Planecrazy2 (Reply 15): Yes, they say it will be superior to jetBlue, we shall see.
That is what I am getting at. They claim it will be better and B6 didn't sell to Song did they. Sure they will supply to CO or AA if they come knocking because it would be great money but if they don't supply VA they might not get their superior tv's.
777ER From New Zealand, joined Dec 2003, 10955 posts, RR: 25 Reply 17, posted (5 years 9 months 1 week 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 4299 times:
Quoting JetBlueAtJFK (Reply 16): Quoting Planecrazy2 (Reply 15):
Yes, they say it will be superior to jetBlue, we shall see.
That is what I am getting at. They claim it will be better and B6 didn't sell to Song did they. Sure they will supply to CO or AA if they come knocking because it would be great money but if they don't supply VA they might not get their superior tv's.
If B6 refuse to offer VA LiveTV then VA could easily get IFE like what NZ has nearly finished installing on its long haul fleet.
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Beautiful livery, looks nothing like Virgin America's tacky and ugly colorscheme on their A320.
Quoting Alphaomega (Reply 11): Its definately Virgin Blue, not Virgin America - the aircraft have been doing approaches and other radio equipment tests at SFB during the night hours.
Planecrazy2 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 615 posts, RR: 5 Reply 20, posted (5 years 9 months 1 week 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 4280 times:
Quoting JetBlueAtJFK (Reply 16): if they don't supply VA they might not get their superior tv's.
Can't they just get it from another supplier? I'm not sure I fully understand what your're saying here.
Route and dates for the ferry flight were as follows :
Dep Brisbane 24 July at 1957z for Nadi
Dep Nadi 25 July at 0017z for Kona
Dep Kona 25 July at 2308z for Tuscon
Dept Tuscon 26 July at 0550z for Orlando MCO.
It's due to depart at 1600z on 20 Aug for Melbourne, via the above points.
Shortly after, one of VOZs -800s will fly over for same (don't know which one yet).
Has anyone seen VBO in the air (times/dates etc)? Also, whereabouts is it parked at MCO please?
FlyDeltaJets From United States of America, joined Feb 2006, 1245 posts, RR: 1 Reply 22, posted (5 years 9 months 1 week 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 4177 times:
I may have been mistaken on the a/c but I know that it was VIrgin Blue. Thanks for the info. I saw it as I were leaving MCO yest. I didn't get a chance to get pics as I were dead tired and wasn't thinkg straight.
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AkjetBlue From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 790 posts, RR: 7 Reply 23, posted (5 years 9 months 1 week 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 4011 times:
Just for clarification:
The aircraft at the JetBlue LiveTV hangar in MCO is a 737 for Virgin BLUE
The aircraft at the JetBlue LiveTV hangar in MCO is NOT a A320 for Virgin America
Last year (2005 in March or April IIRC) an announcement was made that LiveTV would provide systems for Virgin America as can be found below.
Continental From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 5444 posts, RR: 24 Reply 24, posted (5 years 9 months 1 week 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 3975 times:
There was another thread recently about a Virgin Blue 737 at MCO. I took a picture of it when I was at the airport. It's in my profile.
25 MyleHi: I've never heard of Virgin Blue until, I saw it taxiing at MCO on 4th Aug.
26 747LUVR: I wish we had more Australian service to/from MCO. Maybe someday....
27 DLX737200: Nice try MyleHi. Too bad Virgin Blue has no A320s... Anyone know when any test flights or its scheduled departure time is? I'd love to get a shot of t
28 MIAMIx707: oops typing error, thanks It was inside the JetBlue live TV hangar when I passed by but a few days ago they pulled it ouside and parked a Jetblue A32
29 Richierich: United uses JetBlue's subsidiary for XM radio? I don't think so.
30 AirMailer: Yeah, but someone has to supply them with something... so look at it from a different angle, do you really want to force them to go find someone else
31 Aussieindc: I was going to say, WTF! Since when did DJ get Airbuses??? lol.
32 NZ1: It is actually VH-VBO a 737-700. This is 1st of type. This will be 737-800 VH-VUF, and again, is 1st of type. Once these 2 aircraft are done, the rem
33 Antares: NZ1, Don't you share a sense of irony in this. The engineering outfit that the new management of NZ decided wasn't up to world's best continues to win
34 PropilotJW: This has been talked about for a week now in this forum.
35 MyleHi: Saw the Virgin Blue airplane again from the terminal. Sources say it is an Aussie Air Force AWACS airplane disguised as a Virgin Blue airplane, or Vir
36 RichardJF: even worse once they find them running on New Zealand domestic or at least that looked to be the plan.
37 MIAMIx707: Yes, typing mistake, I linked the photo of the correct plane in reply 19. I wish they'd bring the all-blue one now
38 Carnoc: For those interested, the full list of available channels can be found towards the end of the story @ http://en.carnoc.com/list/0/909.html Regards.
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