It's Official: Independence Air To Discontinue Operations

[T-Bird76]

On Thursday To Morn Independence Air Just Wear A blue Shirt.

I was going to drag out my United shirt showing a UAL 747 taking a wizz on an Indy 319. ahahaahahaha :twisted:

[Tower Air]

[quote=T-Bird76]

On Thursday To Morn Independence Air Just Wear A blue Shirt.

I was going to drag out my United shirt showing a UAL 747 taking a wizz on an Indy 319. ahahaahahaha :twisted:[/quote:ae44f]
do you have a pic?

[LGA777]

Well the last departure left LGA about 40 mins late on N805BR. Big disappointment for me as I requested to work Ramp Control today so I could issue pushback clearance to their departure and personally wish the crew well. They ended up changing gates from A4 to A3 which we don't control. but I monitored ground and tower, nothing was said but I saw lots of faces in the windows when they taxied by. I did get to speak with the second to last crew, which was their last leg, since the 1230 departure was an hour late and was at A4, they where Professional to the end and really seamed to appreciate my warm well wishes from a competitor. One of the great things about working in "the" industry is being able to help front line employees at other carriers, at the non upper management ranks we can really help each other out, with out being in the least bit un-loyal to our employers ! I hope all the crews can move on and find good flying jobs in the industry, I am sure having 319 time will sure help !

LGA777

[Tower Air]

The Last Independence Flight Is Now Airborne
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/IDE1777

[mirrodie]

Its like the, sniff, last flight of Concorde....sniff, sniff.

Phil, I need a hug. :twisted:

[Tower Air]

The End Of An era! Independence Air Is Now gone

[PhilDernerJr]

Era? It was ike a year and a half of ****ty yields. lol

[IslipWN]

so is there like a huge plethora of FlyI planes at IAD right now? who is going to take over the concourse now?

[T-Bird76]

so is there like a huge plethora of FlyI planes at IAD right now? who is going to take over the concourse now?

The gates belong to IAD so whoever IAD leases them out to. They'll probably remain empty for a while

[LGA777]

When I got home from work I decided to check flightaware for DH ferry flights out of IAD tonight, look what I found, this only partial

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N815BR

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N811BR

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N809BR

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N812BR

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N807BR

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N808

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N810BR

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N814BR

Could not find any CRJ's

Ron

[T-Bird76]

Wow very interesting Ron. The leasing company took them back pretty quickly. The repo man was probably on hand at IAD when those last flights came in.

[Ari707]

who flew them???

[Ari707]

who is`getting their slots at LGA?

[Tower Air]

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N805BR

One's on the way to mexico

[Clipper]

All the ILFC's owned A319's are being short term stored at Lake Charles, Four owned by CIT is now parked at Mexicana's facility awaiting new customers.

Majority of the ferry flight crews are Flyi employees and were happy to make one more flight on the A319's.