Wazzu Paint Job-Horizon Air

[WeedKillinCat]

This morning I saw a Horizon jet with a red Wazzu logo on the tail and WSU in big letters down the side at Billings Logan this morning. Love to an MSU version....

[Eastcoastgriz]

This morning I saw a Horizon jet with a red Wazzu logo on the tail and WSU in big letters down the side at Billings Logan this morning. Love to an MSU version....

Horizon is painting several of their jets with the logo of Universities in some of the cities they serve. UM is getting one, MSU is not. UW, WSU, OS, U of O are also getting a jet.

[Cledus]

Sweet.

Maybe MSU-B or Rocky will get one.

[longhorn_22]

Of course MSU isn't. Why in the world would we want to do a thing like that?

[SonomaCat]

This morning I saw a Horizon jet with a red Wazzu logo on the tail and WSU in big letters down the side at Billings Logan this morning. Love to an MSU version....

Horizon is painting several of their jets with the logo of Universities in some of the cities they serve. UM is getting one, MSU is not. UW, WSU, OS, U of O are also getting a jet.

In the press releases I saw from late December, UW, WSU, OSU and UO are mentioned, but UM is not. Do you have a link to something that indicates that UM is as well?

Or ... are you just trying to get a rise out of the locals?

[GOKATS]

This morning I saw a Horizon jet with a red Wazzu logo on the tail and WSU in big letters down the side at Billings Logan this morning. Love to an MSU version....

Horizon is painting several of their jets with the logo of Universities in some of the cities they serve. UM is getting one, MSU is not. UW, WSU, OS, U of O are also getting a jet.

In the press releases I saw from late December, UW, WSU, OSU and UO are mentioned, but UM is not. Do you have a link to something that indicates that UM is as well?

Or ... are you just trying to get a rise out of the locals?

I'm guessing the latter. Fizzoula has nowhere near the air traffic Gallatin Field has (but, Denny WA may have bought one ).

[Eastcoastgriz]

I'm guessing the latter. Fizzoula has nowhere near the air traffic Gallatin Field has (but, Denny WA may have bought one ).

From the states website:(http://www.mdt.mt.gov/publications/docs ... s-2007.pdf)

Missoula had 22,795 boardings while bozo had just 21,462.

My information came from a Horizon VP. He told me they were adding Boise State and U of M to the other 4. Missoula has the most Horizon boardings in the state.

[Cledus]

I'm guessing the latter. Fizzoula has nowhere near the air traffic Gallatin Field has (but, Denny WA may have bought one ).

From the states website:(http://www.mdt.mt.gov/publications/docs ... s-2007.pdf)

Missoula had 22,795 boardings while bozo had just 21,462.

My information came from a Horizon VP. He told me they were adding Boise State and U of M to the other 4. Missoula has the most Horizon boardings in the state.

I don't believe Missoula has the most boardings in the state on Horizon. I fly to and from Seattle once a week for nearly half the year. After about April last year, there was rarely an open seat to or from. Also, within the last few months, Horizon has changed planes from a turbo prop to a jet, which again filled right up; rarely an open seat. I believe your friend may have been speaking to the fact of the Montana cities under consideration for the school color paint job, Missoula has the most traffic. That I would believe.

Good thing I just double checked your link to be sure (didn't want to make a fool of myself). Horizon boardings YTD for Billings are 49k compared to 43k for Missoula.

[Cledus]

I'm guessing the latter. Fizzoula has nowhere near the air traffic Gallatin Field has (but, Denny WA may have bought one ).

From the states website:(http://www.mdt.mt.gov/publications/docs ... s-2007.pdf)

Missoula had 22,795 boardings while bozo had just 21,462.

My information came from a Horizon VP. He told me they were adding Boise State and U of M to the other 4. Missoula has the most Horizon boardings in the state.

Depends on how you interpret that. For Horizon boardings, Missoula had just 3,500 more boardings per year, or just 9.5 more passengers per day (hardly a traffic juggernaut unless you're talking about Reserve Street). Having said that, total traffic through Bozeman compared to Missoula isn't even close. Bozeman had 75k passengers YTD compared to 54k through Missoula. So, for GOKATS to say Gallatin Field has more traffic, he's absolutely correct.

[GOKATS]

I'm guessing the latter. Fizzoula has nowhere near the air traffic Gallatin Field has (but, Denny WA may have bought one ).

From the states website:(http://www.mdt.mt.gov/publications/docs ... s-2007.pdf)

Missoula had 22,795 boardings while bozo had just 21,462.

My information came from a Horizon VP. He told me they were adding Boise State and U of M to the other 4. Missoula has the most Horizon boardings in the state.

I'm just curious why you picked Nov., 2007 for your statistics?

YTD thru Nov., 2007 Missoula total boardings was 258,974.
Bozeman total boardings was 311,276

Missoula off boardings was 257,014
Bozeman off boardings was 308,744

Total Missoula traffic 515,988
Total Bozeman traffic 620,020

In summary YTD thru Nov,. 2007 Bozeman handled 104,032 more passengers than Missoula (average of 285/day)

[STREETCAT]

I'm guessing the latter. Fizzoula has nowhere near the air traffic Gallatin Field has (but, Denny WA may have bought one ).

From the states website:(http://www.mdt.mt.gov/publications/docs ... s-2007.pdf)

Missoula had 22,795 boardings while bozo had just 21,462.

My information came from a Horizon VP. He told me they were adding Boise State and U of M to the other 4. Missoula has the most Horizon boardings in the state.

I'm just curious why you picked Nov., 2007 for your statistics?

YTD thru Nov., 2007 Missoula total boardings was 258,974.
Bozeman total boardings was 311,276

Missoula off boardings was 257,014
Bozeman off boardings was 308,744

Total Missoula traffic 515,988
Total Bozeman traffic 620,020

In summary YTD thru Nov,. 2007 Bozeman handled 104,032 more passengers than Missoula (average of 285/day)

Non of this takes into accound private flight either. I bet GV tripples that of missoula with all the big sky traffic.

[Eastcoastgriz]

Non of this takes into accound private flight either. I bet GV tripples that of missoula with all the big sky traffic.

Speaking of private jets, my next door neighbor sells jet fuel. He stated that Kalispell sells more private jet fuel than any other airport in the state.

[Eastcoastgriz]

I'm just curious why you picked Nov., 2007 for your statistics?

Was multi tasking (helping my daughter with her spelling words) and not paying very close attention to what I was doing. My bad.

[rtb]

I found this article from the Chronicle that gives you an idea of flights out of Bozeman and what percentage is private air traffic.

Gallatin Field sets passenger record

A record 334,505 passengers passed through Gallatin Field in 2007, up 5.6 percent over the previous year, according to a recent news release.

Airport officials attributed the increased travel to new daily year-round nonstop service to Chicago, seasonal weekend nonstops to San Francisco and a third daily nonstop to Seattle-Tacoma. This year will see the upgrade of the United Airlines daily flight to Denver to a mainline 737 aircraft during peak winter and summer travel periods.

Though last year saw a record number of travelers coming through the airport, statistics demonstrate that it was only the second highest year for air traffic control operations, with 80,606 aircraft coming and going in 2007.

The airport underwent $4.2 million in infrastructure improvements in 2007 including a terminal apron expansion to accommodate future terminal growth, construction of 17 new private hangars and a new general aviation pilot shelter built by local volunteers. A new radar site was also commissioned at the airport last year.

Commercial passenger boardings by airline were:

- Delta/Delta Connection - 99,813

- United Express - 94,554

- Northwest/Northwest Jetlink - 91,989

- Horizon - 43,690

- Big Sky - 4,459

Commercial airlines combined with cargo flights account for 20 percent of aviation traffic at the airport. Corporate jet operations grew 10 percent last year and accounted for 7 percent of air traffic operations while 73 percent of airport traffic is general aviation, according to the news release.

[theblackgecko]

Pics?

[MSU01]

Here's a pretty cool timelapse video of the WSU plane being painted...looks good! Would love to see one of those in MSU colors, though I doubt it will ever happen.

[WeedKillinCat]

Here's a pretty cool timelapse video of the WSU plane being painted...looks good! Would love to see one of those in MSU colors, though I doubt it will ever happen.

Thats the one I saw....with all the MSU engineers in the aerospace industry you'd think there ought to be some connections to get it done....

[PDXGriz]

I saw the Oregon Ducks one - it looks great.

[grizatwork]

Here's a pretty cool timelapse video of the WSU plane being painted...looks good! Would love to see one of those in MSU colors, though I doubt it will ever happen.

Thats the one I saw....with all the MSU engineers in the aerospace industry you'd think there ought to be some connections to get it done....

You obviously don't read Dilbert.