[Vision2020] Horizon Air plans three new college logo planes

[Kenneth Marcy]

Horizon Air plans three new college logo planes

Horizon Air  plans to launch Bombardier Q400 turboprops sporting the colors 
and logos of the University of Idaho, the University of Montana and Montana 
State University, the Seattle-based airline announced Monday.

Starting in 2008, Horizon has launched Q400s with the colors and logos of 
Boise State University, Oregon State University, the University of Oregon, the 
University of Washington and Washington State University.

"In the nearly 25 years I have been with Horizon, I can think of nothing that 
has generated as much excitement among our customers as our university-themed 
aircraft," Dan Russo, Horizon's vice president of marketing and 
communications, said in a news release. "Now, with the University of Idaho and 
Montana's largest public universities joining our fleet, we look forward to 
thrilling even more school fans."

Horizon will start painting the planes, which were scheduled for repainting 
anyway, in early November. The airline plans to unveil the University of Idaho 
plane at Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport on Nov. 10, the University of Montana 
plane at Missoula International Airport/Johnson-Bell Field on Nov. 19 and the 
Montana State University plane at Gallatin Field in Bozeman on Nov. 30.

To see an artist's conception of what the paint jobs will look like, view:

http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/archives/223584.asp?from=blog_last3 


Ken