Hello there!
Story time.
Virgin America’s merger into Alaska Air in 2018 saw Alaska Air end up with a fleet of A319s, A320s and A321neos. Alaska Air was no longer “proudly all Boeing” as they like to stencil on their 737s. That also began the thoughts of when Alaska would phase out the Airbus fleet. Initially estimates were well into the decade, especially for the A321neo, but times have changed.
The massive fall in passenger demand, thanks to the well-known pandemic, saw the demise of Alaska’A319s. The A320s and A321s soldiered on. However, the timer is getting close to 0 for them. By the time this event happens the A320 of theirs would have been retired.
Even though the A321s will keep going, I’m including them in this event as they don’t have the Alaska livery because we don’t have the NEO variant.
Story time done
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The Route
We will be flying Seattle to Los Angeles. As that’s the last route I’ve seen an A320 of theirs do that isn’t to the desert.
FPL will be made on the day of the event, as any flight plan now would probably be out dated due to thing like weather
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Where: Seattle (KSEA)
Server: Expert
When: March 5 at 1PM PST
Aircraft:
Alaska A320 (I’ll also accept signs ups requesting the Virgin America livery),
and if you’d like, there’s an Generic A321 (as A321neo substitute). Specify if you want it or not though, by default I’ll list you with an A320
If you don’t want to pick just ask for a gate and i’ll give you an A320
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Gates
N1 - Alaska A320 @UALPilot
N2 - Alaska A320 @Real-ak907
N3 - Alaska A320 @EastTexasAviationYT
N4 - Alaska A320 @Dodsky
N5 - Alaska A320 @XXTHUNDERDOMEXX
N6 - Alaska A320 @Ryan_Carney
N7 - Alaska A320 @Butter575
N8 - Alaska A320 @Flyin.Hawaiian
N9 - Alaska A320 @United403
N10 - Alaska A320 @AIDAN101
N11 - Virgin A320 @Pingu
N12 - Alaska A320 @Justin_Betances
N13 - Virgin A320 @plane_guy12
N14 - Alaska A320 @Andy_Garrett
N15 - Alaska A320 @Jarrel_Solomon
N16 - Alaska A320 @ThatOneFloridaAvGeek
N17 - Alaska A320 @samuelhart20081
N18 - Alaska A320 @Avgeek1
N19 - Alaska A320 @Joel_Albert
N20 - Alaska A320 @AxolotlsMaster
more gates can be added as needed
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ATC Spots:
Ground…Vacant
Tower…Vacant
Approach…Vacant
Departure…Vacant
Center…Vacant
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Sponsors:
Alaska Airlines Virtual
Alaska Virtual’s Thread
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Disclaimers
-I am not responsible for any violations and whatnot that you get
-I ask you act professionally at this event
-If ATC isn’t secured and/or doesn’t make it on event day, then use Unicom appropriately
-Photo credits goes to @AIDAN101 (me)
~If there’s any formatting issues or something, do let me know as I’d like to fix them~