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With Virign America offering itself for sale, seems to 2 suitors are interested. Jetblue and Alaska and some sources have Alaska as the likely winner with an offer of 2 billion where other sources put Jetblue in the winners seat.


Big question is if Alaska does buy them will they make a deal with Boeing to trade in Airbus for 737s or will they operate a mixed fleet?

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Alaska Airlines is set to buy Virgin America. Boards of both companies approved the deal. Pending govt approval they expect the deal to close by end of year.

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Any clues what this guy would be doing? Whatever it was, it delayed our departure by almost 3 hours the other day.

https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-...-cC4s8B7-M.jpg

Just wondering which bit had fallen off. :lol:

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Can't say, but most BA 747s are held together with Sellotape and bits of string these days, and I've had similar delays when things had fallen off.

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There was lots of arm waving and clambering up and down. :)

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Something to do with the flaps? :unsure: :scarper:

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:lol:

Maybe a Chicken impression. The Korma was quite tasty.

I WAS quite surprised they kept the plane where it was and didn't move it off of the gate.

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Erm, yeah, he's fueling your aircraft. You'd have been a lot more delayed had he not been there :rofl:

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I was going to say it was refueling, but I didn't see a hose so I didn't want to look like a 'tard.

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They cancelled boarding at the Gate (actually during boarding) as people "needing assistance" were already on and had to be brought back off.

Then we spent 2.5 hours sat at the gate watching this guy wave his arms around at some other people milling around under the plane.

So I don't think it was fuel, unless they fill it with a bucket.

This came up approx. 30 mins after boarding was meant to have commenced. We then had another 2 hour wait before it opened again....

https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-...-87S396z-S.jpg

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Well, he's at the fuel panel of the aircraft, and he's standing on a fuel bowser with the hose connected into the ground. He was fueling your aircraft. That's not to say the fueling was going smoothly of course LOL.

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Certainly makes sense. Since you have worked the ramp anyway, you are going to know better than the rest of us :D

Good to know my first guess was right, even if I was too chicken to say so.

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Yeah, the 2 giveaways are the ring around the rear wheels, and it's blurry, but you can see the cap behind the truck attached to the fuel hydrant. You can also see the hose on the platform if you zoom in and look closely. That said, it doesn't take 2 hours to fuel a 747, so there was clearly some sort of issue.

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Once they did eventually board us, there was a further 30 minute delay whilst the captain waited for some "final paperwork to sign off" that he apparently didn't have. It was all pretty odd. I didn't mind by then though as Fools and Horses was on the Entertainment thingy. :)

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Sounds like a typical BA cluster**** to me LOL