[Vision2020] [Vandal] Horizon Air Adds University-Themed Planes To Honor Idaho Vandals, Montana School

[Tom Hansen]

Oops.

My apologies to UC Santa Clara.

I meant "UC Santa Cruz".

Tom Hansen

On Tue, October 5, 2010 8:54 am, Tom Hansen wrote:
> Come on you UC Santa Clara alums!
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> Get mad!
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> DEMAND equal time!
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> Ask the “powers that be” . . .
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> When will we see your alma mater’s Banana Slug graced on the tail wing
> of a Horizon Air Q400?
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> Later, Vandals and V-peeps.
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> Tom Hansen
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> Astoria, Oregon
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> From: vandal-bounces at uidaho.edu [mailto:vandal-bounces at uidaho.edu] On
> Behalf Of RobieGRuss at aol.com
> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 8:46 PM
> To: vandal at uidaho.edu
> Subject: [Vandal] Horizon Air Adds University-Themed Planes To Honor Idaho
> Vandals, Montana School
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>>From the Idaho Statesman
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> Boise, Idaho
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> Monday, October 4, 2010
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> Horizon Air Adds University-Themed Planes To Honor Idaho Vandals, Montana
> Schools
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> Horizon Air last year launched a 76-seat Bombardier Q400 painted in Boise
> State blue and orange. At that time, officials said they had no plans for
> a plane to honor the University of Idaho Vandals.
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> But on Monday, Horizon and the University of Idaho announced that the
> airline will launch a silver-and-gold Vandal-themed plane after all. The
> Q400 will have a silver "I" logo on the gold tail and the words "Idaho
> Vandals" in gold on both sides. The plane will be unveiled Nov. 10.
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> "We're pleased Horizon Air is including the state's leading, national
> research university in its fleet of collegiate airplanes," Duane Nellis,
> University of Idaho president, said in a press release Monday. "Horizon
> has been a terrific partner of ours for many years and we are glad to see
> a silver and gold plane come to fruition."
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> Horizon is also having two planes painted in the colors of the Montana
> Grizzlies and Montana State Bobcats.
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> Horizon Air spokeswoman Jen Boyer told the Idaho Statesman Monday that the
> decision to add the new university-themed planes was made when three
> planes needed repainting. There will be no cost to the universities.
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> "It's a decision that was made recently to round out our Pacific Northwest
> heritage fleet," Boyer said.
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> When the three new planes are completed, Horizon's heritage fleet will
> have planes representing two universities in each of four Northwest states
> - Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana.
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> The launch last fall of the Boise State Bronco plane didn't sit well with
> some Vandals. In November, Vandals athletic director Rob Spear refused to
> board the Boise State-themed plane from Moscow to Boise.
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> Spear said he boycotted the Bronco plane and drove to Spokane's airport
> instead to protest the lack of a Vandal plane.
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> "The University of Idaho is the state's flagship university," he said in a
> written statement, later adding: "The University of Idaho very likely
> utilizes Horizon Airlines more than any institution in the state."
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> Horizon's other university-themed planes are: Boise State University,
> Oregon State University, the University of Oregon, the University of
> Washington and Washington State University.
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> “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 press release Monday. “Now, with
> the University of Idaho and Montana’s largest public universities
> joining our fleet, we look forward to thrilling even more school fans.”
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> The University of Montana plane will be unveiled Nov. 19 at at Missoula
> International Airport/Johnson-Bell Field. The Montana State University
> plane will be unveiled Nov. 30 at Gallatin Field in Bozeman.
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