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Virgin America Arrives in SFO
Pearson:
Nothing special, attached is VRD001 and VRD846 on the parallel arrival to 28R and 28L, respectively. Gotta love the guy giggling in the background when he hears, "'pair of Virgins".
KMSY:
Haha. I wonder if he had been waiting for weeks to say that. Great clip.
athaker:
howd they pick redwood?
tyketto:
--- Quote from: athaker on August 08, 2007, 07:19:30 PM ---howd they pick redwood?
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Generally callsigns are something relative to the airline, or something unique to the airline. I don't think they could use 'Virgin' just because of the issues stemming from US laws and relating it to the int'l carrier.
In this case, they did the same thing AWE and ROK did. AWE is based in Phoenix, and that area (let alone all of Arizona) is known for Cactus, so there you go. National was based in Las Vegas, and didn't want to be related to the old National Airlines and Sunking, so it picked something unique to Vegas, which was Redrock Canyon; hence, Redrock.
Virgin America? it's based in San Fransisco, and Northern California is known for the redwood trees growing all over the place; So, Redwood.
BL.
jettard:
--- Quote from: athaker on August 08, 2007, 07:19:30 PM ---howd they pick redwood?
[/quotewhy cant the have a callsign like BlewBall or something like that... that is a great clip
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