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    OMGWTFBBQ: Oh My God, What the F*ck, Barbecue (yes, it is barbecue)

    It is pretty much mocking the acronyms out there, or used is used in the context of a very hyper OMG WTF.

    Gotham, I don't know what other airlines are painted in blue and white, and what Phil has to do with it. I'm very confused on that part! ;)
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    Quote Originally Posted by mirrodie
    By the way, I think I know OMGWTF, but BBQ? What is the BBQ?
    Quote Originally Posted by Encyclopedia Dramatica
    Originating from somethingawful.com, this word was originally used as a surname for one of the writers there. It was meant to mock the use of acronyms on games such as Starcraft and programs like AIM. It was popularized, ironically, when people began to say it as rejection of people who overused these phrases.

    Starcraft Player #1: OMG ZERG RUSH!!! WTF I HATES JOO!!!
    Korean Player: OMGWTFBBQ, KEKEKE!!!

    It can be interpreted simply as gibberish, when one wants to emphasize one's own incoherence, lack of understanding, or used when one wants to emphasize one's own awesome abilities, such as the power to make really good waffles.
    Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem.
    All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control.
    I trust you are not in too much distress. —Captain Eric Moody, British Airways Flight 9

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    Ah! The Swedish Chef....shmirnynerpnorneernornorMORKMORKMORK!


    Quote Originally Posted by nwafan20
    Gotham, I don't know what other airlines are painted in blue and white, and what Phil has to do with it. I'm very confused on that part! ;)
    Think about airlines that are painted blue and white and fly 757s out of JFK who could be chartered for this type of subservice.

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    Would it happen to be a North American 757?
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    Well, jetBlue really f**ked up this one! (Excuse my language). Everyone deserves a free ticket on JetBlue plus trueBlue points for the members. I know some already got free tickets, but they all should get one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nwafan20
    Would it happen to be a North American 757?
    Yessirreee.

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    Might look like this livery... ;)
    And I, I took the path less traveled by
    and that has made all the difference......yet...
    I have a feeling a handle of people are going to be very interested in what I post in the near future.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nwafan20
    Who did they rent it from?
    JetBlue hired subservices from Omni (752), ATA (753) and North American (752) to cover flights.

    The flight above (in the pic) was the North American one which I was on. I had to fly JFK-FLL-JFK-FLL-JFK over the last 25 hours. Tiresome but lots of fun. I can honestly say that JetBlue was handling it all pretty well considering how many people were in their terminals.
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    I am glad to see B6 was intelligent enough to sub-service from other carriers to move their customers. I was very surprised Frontier did not do this during their DEN meltdown right before Christmas. BTW B6's third bad day in a row made all three of the major networks National news Friday night and it was not favorable coverage.

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    Tonight I was home babysitting my 4 1/2 month old daughter and while I was entertaining her I was also listening to JFK ground, trying to start her aviation interest when her Mom is not around. Anway this guy landed using a B6 callsign and I heard something pretty wild, Jetblue 4014 HEAVY !

    http://flightaware.com/live/flight/JBU4014

    As this was a sub flight from ATA really confused that ATA would use a B6 callsign when I am almost certain ATA actually dispatched the flight. The ground controller actually mistakenly identified it as B6 operated by North American.

    Cheers

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    JetBlue 4115 Heavy, DC-10 (Omni ?) just landed JFK from ATL, I assume on position for Tommorow.

    http://flightaware.com/live/flight/JBU4115


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    Quote Originally Posted by LGA777
    I am glad to see B6 was intelligent enough to sub-service from other carriers to move their customers. I was very surprised Frontier did not do this during their DEN meltdown right before Christmas. BTW B6's third bad day in a row made all three of the major networks National news Friday night and it was not favorable coverage.

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    Ron they really don't have the choice, B6 doesn't have the capacity to deal with situations like this and they made it worse by removing further capacity in 2006. I really use to like B6 but the last few times I've flown them I've been delayed by more then three hours. They expanded to fast and bit off more then they could chew. Just compare their revenue with other airlines they are performing the worst for an airline of their size. They still are making tech stops on transcons this year bc the 320s can't make it. They made some really bad decisions in the last two years and its we're seeing it now.

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    Wow, A DC-10, must have really had a lot of customers to get to ATL!
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    Quote Originally Posted by nwafan20
    Wow, A DC-10, must have really had a lot of customers to get to ATL!
    jet Blue doesn't fly to ATL Matt.

    As mentioned it must be a repositioning flight coming in from ATL as an Omni flight and out to MCO as a jet Blue one.

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    Whoops, sorry.

    So you think it went ATL-JFK-MCO?
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