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

Tue Oct 5 08:54:46 PDT 2010

Come on you UC Santa Clara alums!

Get mad! 

DEMAND equal time!

Ask the “powers that be” . . .

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.

Tom Hansen

Astoria, Oregon

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

>From the Idaho Statesman

Boise, Idaho

Monday, October 4, 2010

Horizon Air Adds University-Themed Planes To Honor Idaho Vandals, Montana Schools

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.

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.

"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."

Horizon is also having two planes painted in the colors of the Montana Grizzlies and Montana State Bobcats.

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.

"It's a decision that was made recently to round out our Pacific Northwest heritage fleet," Boyer said.

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.

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.

Spear said he boycotted the Bronco plane and drove to Spokane's airport instead to protest the lack of a Vandal plane.

"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."

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.

“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.”

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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