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Notable Airline, Hotel and Travel News: August 20, 2013

August 20, 2013 by Darren 3 Comments

A brief sampling of industry news that caught my attention today: Allegiant Air announced huge expansion plans today, with a total of 18 new routes and 10 new cities. While a lot of the new service focuses on smaller airports surrounding larger communities (Allegiant’s overall strategy), it’s certain to get the attention of legacy airlines.…

Continental Airlines, Now Featuring Electronic Pub Pong: Retro Video

August 10, 2013 by Darren 2 Comments

I spent part of this morning online searching for additional Vintage Airline Seat Maps to add to my collection, and I came across this video montage of Continental Airlines TV commercials from the 1970s and 1980s. It’s a pretty amusing look back, and a couple of them highlight Continental’s DC-10s with both a first class…

Vintage Airline Seat Map: American Airlines DC-10 ‘Standard’ from 1987

May 10, 2013 by Darren 4 Comments

Last month I published a seat map of American’s “Standard” DC-10 from 1985 sporting a spacious coach cabin. I noted in that post that a mere two years later in 1987, this same aircraft was reconfigured with 22 additional seats in the rear cabin and promised to share the higher-density layout. Here, then, is American’s…

Vintage Airline Seat Map: American Airlines DC-10 ‘Standard’ From 1985

April 5, 2013 by Darren 2 Comments

I previously posted three other American DC-10s – one from 1977 sporting a “Dining in the Sky” section, another from 1985 in a three-class international configuration, and a high-density coach layout operating to Hawaii. And here now is American’s standard version seen flying the skies in 1985 for this installment of Vintage Airline Seat Maps.…

Vintage Airline Seat Map: Continental Airlines DC-10-30 (Domestic-South Pacific)

December 7, 2012 by Darren 3 Comments

I’ve got DC-10s on my mind this week having posted a video on Tuesday showing a “floater” landing by a United DC-10 at LAX years ago. And I’m jealous of a fellow #avgeek who’s flying a KLM MD-11 on Sunday. So… here’s a Continental Airlines DC-10-30 for this installment of Vintage Airline Seat Maps. I…

Video: United Airlines DC-10-30 Landing at LAX… Barely

December 4, 2012 by Darren 4 Comments

Frequent Traveler University was fantastic, but I caught a horrible cold and my post-writing juices have stalled. So… while I wallow in my own pity and recover, check out this floater of a DC-10 landing at LAX. I’ve never seen an aircraft touch down that far along runway 25L. P.S. I’ll reply to the many…

Top 10 Viewed Vintage Airline Seat Maps

November 24, 2012 by Darren Leave A Comment

Instead of posting a new Vintage Airline Seat Map this week, I decided to take a look at my site’s analytics and post the top 10 viewed seat maps since I began blogging in 2010. Obviously the earlier maps have had more opportunity for greater pageviews, but the top 10 didn’t come as a surprise…

Vintage Airline Seat Map: Delta Air Lines DC-10

August 26, 2012 by Darren 8 Comments

When Delta Air Lines acquired Western Airlines in 1987, they integrated Western’s DC-10-10 fleet into their operation. The seat map below reflects a -30 configuration, and unless I’m wrong, Delta never had -30s so I assume this is a typographical error (this map was published in July 1987). Potential error aside, I’m a DC-10 aficionado…

Vintage Airline Seat Map: American Airlines DC-10 (Hawaii) from 1987

May 25, 2012 by Darren 12 Comments

Let’s kick off the Memorial Day weekend with another Vintage Airline Seat Map, shall we? I previously posted two other versions of American Airlines’ DC-10s from the past (here and here), and the one appearing below was seen flying the skies in 1987. Seating a total of 313 passengers in a high-density “Hawaii” configuration, there…

Vintage Airline Seat Map: World Airways DC-10-30 from 1987

April 20, 2012 by Darren 2 Comments

It’s time for another Vintage Airline Seat Map and I’ve selected an unusual one this week. World Airways – I know… they mislabeled it World Airlines – primarily flew (and currently flies) members of the military to war zones the world over along with other contracted business. If Wikipedia is correct, they currently operate a…