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blakman7 06-05-2012 04:56 PM
AT in SWA colors?
 
While passing through MCO today, I happened to spot what I thought was a former AirTran 737 in SWA colors as N7714B. Does anyone know what the tail numbers are of the AirTran planes that are coming online as SWA?

CANAM 06-05-2012 05:01 PM
Here are a few pics of the transformation.

http://www.airliners.net/uf/view.fil...phpxZ3vhh.jpeg
http://www.airliners.net/uf/view.fil...php5rYDkM.jpeg
http://www.airliners.net/uf/view.fil...phpP1wBi9.jpeg

WHACKMASTER 06-05-2012 05:40 PM
Originally Posted by blakman7 (Post 1205859)
While passing through MCO today, I happened to spot what I thought was a former AirTran 737 in SWA colors as N7714B. Does anyone know what the tail numbers are of the AirTran planes that are coming online as SWA?
That wasn't ours. AirTran B737s are all xxxAT.

OscartheGrouch 06-05-2012 06:02 PM
Originally Posted by blakman7 (Post 1205859)
While passing through MCO today, I happened to spot what I thought was a former AirTran 737 in SWA colors as N7714B. Does anyone know what the tail numbers are of the AirTran planes that are coming online as SWA?
That was the first one to transition over. I flew it on it's first revenue flight after it arrived from PAE. BTW, we lost a generator after takeoff and had to run the APU for the rest of the day. It was probably cursed by the Whaaaamaster!:eek:

The Oscar

WHACKMASTER 06-05-2012 06:33 PM
Originally Posted by OscartheGrouch (Post 1205917)
That was the first one to transition over. I flew it on it's first revenue flight after it arrived from PAE. BTW, we lost a generator after takeoff and had to run the APU for the rest of the day. It was probably cursed by the Whaaaamaster!:eek:

The Oscar
Your welcome. Anytime. Running the APU was good practice for the upcoming ETOPS flights.:D

blakman7 06-06-2012 09:16 AM
Originally Posted by WHACKMASTER (Post 1205900)
That wasn't ours. AirTran B737s are all xxxAT.
Originally Posted by OscartheGrouch (Post 1205917)
That was the first one to transition over. I flew it on it's first revenue flight after it arrived from PAE. BTW, we lost a generator after takeoff and had to run the APU for the rest of the day. It was probably cursed by the Whaaaamaster!:eek:

The Oscar
Yeah I thought that was one of the first ones to go. I remember hearing about the first ones tail being N7714B. Hey Oscar, could you tell (besides maybe the generator loss ;)) that it was a former AT plane? Or did it look the exact same as all the rest of the SWA planes. Not trying to be insulting towards SWA but did they dumb the cockpit down? The AT 737's were a little ahead of the SWA 737's to begin with.

LuvJockey 06-06-2012 12:40 PM
Originally Posted by blakman7 (Post 1206434)
Yeah I thought that was one of the first ones to go. I remember hearing about the first ones tail being N7714B. Hey Oscar, could you tell (besides maybe the generator loss ;)) that it was a former AT plane? Or did it look the exact same as all the rest of the SWA planes. Not trying to be insulting towards SWA but did they dumb the cockpit down? The AT 737's were a little ahead of the SWA 737's to begin with.
I heard that we are putting -300 steam dials in all of the AirTran planes we're getting.:rolleyes:

GizmoNC 06-06-2012 07:54 PM
7714 was the first, then 7702, next one due is 7726, the conversion is taking longer than expected. 7714 was added Mar 15, 2012 to the SWA list, 7702 was added Apr 11, 2012 the latter one 7726 is due any day now. By the end of June there will be 13 737-800s with few more due this summer 3 in July and 2 in August.

OscartheGrouch 06-10-2012 08:08 AM
Originally Posted by blakman7 (Post 1206434)
Yeah I thought that was one of the first ones to go. I remember hearing about the first ones tail being N7714B. Hey Oscar, could you tell (besides maybe the generator loss ;)) that it was a former AT plane? Or did it look the exact same as all the rest of the SWA planes. Not trying to be insulting towards SWA but did they dumb the cockpit down? The AT 737's were a little ahead of the SWA 737's to begin with.
Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner B7. I don't know what the cockpit looked like before , but I am pretty sure they are very similar. AT originals had the different standby displays (we already had a few of them from non SWA carriers) and different com heads. Other than that I think they are "becoming" the same cockpit for obvious reasons. We were served well in the past as far as costs go by utilizing our old displays/equipment without (IMO) any loss in safety. We will now have to embrace the latest to be able to operate everywhere.

The Oscar

It is one thing to fly between AMA and DAL. It is another thing to operate out of country or in/out of highly congested airports. Duh.


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