That looks great Sandy. That’s a derivation of the Air Tahiti Nui livery, isn’t it?

Nice report Comet, but, err, wheres this photo of you then? 😉

You took the words right out of my mouth. Where is the photo of you, Comet? 😀 The rest of the photos are great, by the way, and good report.

All the legs on Star Alliance?

Yes sir! I Redeemed 80,000 miles for a business class round trip ticket to Europe. I’m doing ONT-DEN-IAD-JFK on UA then JFK-FRA on SQ and FRA-AMS on LH. By the discontinuation of SQ23 EWR-AMS, (which was just a continuation of SIN-AMS-EWR) due to this new non-stop SIN-EWR service, it added 2 more segments to my outbound (originally it was going to be ONT-DEN-EWR-AMS with the last leg being operated by SQ). When I booked my trip, the Star Alliance timetable had the EWR-AMS service operating until July 23rd, to which it would be replaced by the non-stop service thereafter. Seeing as I was leaving on July 21st, I would be flying on one of the last services. Apparantly, they moved up the launch date of the non-stop service to late June, which is why they switched me over to SQ25 JFK-FRA, so I had to get to JFK instead of EWR, and then go from FRA to AMS on LH. On the return journey, my itinerary wasn’t affected because we had already anticipated SQ not not having the AMS-EWR segment anymore, so I just had the travel agent do AMS-IAD-DEN-ONT, all on UA. The only segments out of this whole itinerary that won’t be in business will be the ONT-DEN-ONT legs because those are now TED flights, which are all economy. 😡

SFO makes more sense. They have no lo-co’s based there, and Southwest has a very small SFO presence. They would obviously have to compete with UA, but competing with majors is nothing new for lo-co’s. I don’t see them being based in New York unless it’s EWR. JFK already has Jetblue, and I don’t realistically see 2 lo-co’s being based at the same airport. LGA really isn’t suited for that type of operation, as slots are limited as it is.

This service was set to start in late July, but now they are bumping it up. I had booked an itinerary and was scheduled to fly from EWR to AMS on SQ23 on July 21st. When I went to ticket it, they had re-booked me onto SQ25 from JFK-FRA, but I didn’t have connections in either city. I asked the UA travel agent why they did that, but they didn’t know. I had to re-do my whole itinerary, but I didn’t care. I’m just flying more segments now (5) on the outbound into AMS.

And yes, the Tail is meant to be the Saltire. Not a greek flag at an angle.

I never doubted this Sandy. I was just pointing out that it worked the other way, as well, and that it was ironic in a sense.

So then this aircraft will be in commercial service with Air Berlin sporting these colours with the Boeing titles still, or with their own?

I thought they were getting rid of the eyebrow windows.