This-n-That

We had Southwest 1 arrive a couple of weeks ago from St. Louis. Kinda curious, since we don't normally see flight 1 from Southwest, although we do have flight 1 from a number of other carriers. And St. Louis to LA? Although St. Louis is a recently-added destination from LA for Southwest, it isn't that recent. In any case, I've only seen SWA1 here once.

Here's another flight 1: THT001 seen departing for Papeete. Most LAX controllers don't like Tahiti's Airbus 340s, but this one did make a nice photo.

A formation of Boeings! Well, for an instant anyway - the B727 is departing while the B737 is landing

I noticed a while back that someone came to the blog via a search for Southern Air's new paint scheme. I imagine that they've since found it; but just in case, here it is, as seen on a B747-300.

Shots of the day

I'm trying something different this week; instead of one large posting, I'm doing a few smaller ones.

Both of these B747s have been in and out of LAX a number of times, but this was my first opportunity to get them with the camera during daylight.

The TBIT keeps getting bigger

The sun shines on Fedex

Ghost plane

How about a picture of no airplane?

Stay tuned . . .

Calm before the storm

Yes, yes, I know . . . I'm overdue for this week's post. Last night's mid and the day shift before were both . . . can I just say grueling?



In the meantime, here are some assorted interesting shots for your perusal:

Volaris currently has two A320s; one I showed you last month, and this is the other (and more interesting) one.

Naturally, after I waited some weeks to show you this Sun Country B738, they showed up early one afternoon. Here's a better view.

And speaking of 737's, US Air has recently brought in a B733 from Phoenix a few afternoons.

Horizon has some more college liveries. They originally had some of their CRJ7s bearing various school colors, but they're now an all Dash-8 fleet. Horizon has also added destinations out of LAX; one off the top of my head is San Jose, CA.

Republic (callsign: Brickyard) has also brought in something a bit unusual. While we get E190's on a daily basis at LAX, we don't normally see the smaller E170. As far as know, Republic is the only carrier to ever bring them here.

Thanks to the Rose Bowl game, we must have had a good chunk of Ryan International's fleet on the ground at LAX; I think I counted seven of their aircraft here, six of which can be seen in these two shots.

And a slightly belated Happy New Year to all. I should've had something special for that, but this will have to do. I've got some stuff in the works, but if you're interested in something particular leave a note in the comments.