The silly names airlines give their planes.
I’m am going on a trip with my family soon and of course, in the midst of everything going on with Boeing right now, I had to make sure that the airline I’m flying with doesn’t fly them.
If you have an upcoming trip with JetBlue, good news is they don't! They fly Airbuses, which I don’t know anything about but I know they’re not Boeing, so that’s great. Okay, I did date an aerospace engineer for three years, so I do know a lil bit about a lil bit (evergreen statement). You can also see the aircraft type in your flight details usually grouped with the flight number and which airline is operating the flight. If you are curious about other airlines, just Google “[airline name + planes/aircrafts]”!
But what I really want to talk about are the goddamn “plane personalities”.
The plane names are particularly good. Here are a few of mine across the entire fleet:
Aruba, Jamaica, Blue I Wanna Take Ya (N2016J)
E Pluribus Bluenum (N2047J)
JetBlue Loves You (in American Sign Language) (N2102J)
Pretty Fly For A Blue Guy (N2059J)
Eeny Minty Miney Mo (N979JT)
Minterial Girl (N985JT) - Mint is JetBlue’s business class/premium offering
Taking a Menta Health Day (N980JT) - “menta” is mint in Spanish
Blue.0 (N965JT)
Ha-Blue Espanol (N950JT)
Mint Mint, Wink, Wink (N4058J)
A NEO Mintality (N2105J) - this is for the A321neo plane
If You Can Read This, You're Blue Close (N729JB)
Big Blue People Seater (N705JB)
Bippity Boppity Blue (N565JB)
Connected to 01000010 01001100 01010101 01000101 (BLUE in binary code) (N709JB)
How's My Flying? Call 1-800-JetBlue (N715JB)
Sacre' Bleu! (N554JB)
Rendezblue (N355JB)
On Wednesdays, We Wear Blue (N3077J)
And then there are tailfin designs like these!
So if you are one of the people who arrive at the airport 3 hours ahead (yet don’t have Pre-Check?!) and you nab a seat with a view of the runway, maybe this can be your airport bird watching activity, spotting these fins or whole body liveries. I love learning exact words for things. It’s so helpful.
What are you favorite names from that list?