Southwest Boycott Averted Runway 28 Takeoffs Spotting TPA

[@thankfulman515]

Hi Captain Well.......we finally got a cool livery from SWA👏 Another cool intro as well UPS 757 🚀Yes Another action packed video I hope you get your house repaired soon.....sorry to hear that there was more damage than you thought Anyhow Thanks again and have a good weekend🫡 Dave

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

Thanks Dave glad you enjoyed it 👍 anxious to see the estimates. They said it could take 7-10 days to see the paperwork.

[@JelmersAviation]

Another epic video mate! Liked!

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

Thanks a ton!

[@chucklaswick6631]

Well sir, I’m out by YYZ and lo and behold what’s here but the UPS MD11.

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

How cool enjoy 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@marymahakian6478]

Yay!!!! Your call to Southwest was heard!!!! Nice livery and it's a Max 8!! Now it's my turn to make a call to Frontier so they can fly ROSIE into TPA for you!!! It'll be a grand reunion for you both!!❤😅

[@thunderamu9543]

Mary, you're a sadist. 😆 It's time you become a team player and protect the quarterback.!😂

[@javy.airlines]

I Miss Seeing Those Special Liveries By Southwest Too😍❤️💖✈️🇺🇸!!!

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

I do too they are awesome 👍

[@rjb073]

Thanks! My real job was being a pilot for UAL, but I never looked at it as a job. Any young man or lady looking for a career that they will fall in love with should consider taking up flying. No regrets.

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

Super Thanks rjb073 😊👍 have a fantastic weekend thanks for your support 😊👍👍

[@DaveMak5150]

Looking forward to being at TPA tomorrow! Have been coming since I was a little kid, always have loved that airport. AA 921 from ORD.

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

Enjoy your visit! I’ll catch your flight if I’m there but not often I’m there at noon. Safe travels

[@DaveMak5150]

@@CaptainStevenMarkovich Thanks!

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

@ I’ll try

[@DaveMak5150]

@@CaptainStevenMarkovich Don’t waste a beautiful Saturday late morning just for that! Some day I’ll get an early flight into TPA.

[@mikeperdomo2108]

Good morning 🌞 Captain Steven how’s your morning 🌞been well It’s getting really cold 🥶 temperatures 50s and 30s 😳🥶🫣

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

@@mikeperdomo2108 Hi Mike. Have a great weekend 😊👍

[@Tigerroux]

😂The UPS pilot was a laugh! Imagine if Mr. Deparcha talked before him. Maybe he was an ex fighter pilot. The mini tri-hauler did make a nice turn.

[@GregorySweeting-i9v]

Yes sir,l live here. Love to have you here.👍

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

Went once probably 25 years ago on a cruise 🚢

[@QuickBurn70]

I guess Spirit's been having a hard time... Another 300+ pilots furloughed and they are selling 23 planes. Nice job catching Southwest's current Herb Kelleher plane. 60's-70's around SAN, possible rain on Saturday.

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

@@QuickBurn70 doesn’t sound good that’s a lot of cuts

[@chip270]

Captain if you're there early enough Saturday morning Louisiana One is scheduled for a 740am departure

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

Thanks Chip may have to change my plans big thanks 😊

[@toobydude41]

"You are now free to NOT boycott the airline"...a new twist on SW's old tagline! haha That ATC dude at the end sounded real chipper haha NOT. Glad you're on the upswing.

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

Thanks. Yes he sounded bored 🥱

[@GregorySweeting-i9v]

Morning, Captain loving the aviation action. Here in the sunny Bahamas. It's 85 degrees. Keep it up. Needs to do show in the Bahamas.😂

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

@@GregorySweeting-i9v sounds delightful. Vacation or do you live there ?

[@robertpagano5739]

Boy that desert gold Southwest was taxiing very fast. United doesn't even go that fast on take offs!! Glad you are feeling better. I hope the boss is doing well too!!

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

They do move right along. Thanks for asking both are doing good. 😊 and yes SW is a hot rod on taxiways 😊

[@TerryFleischmann]

Thanks!

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

Super Thanks Terry Fleischmann 😊😊👍 have a great weekend and thanks again for all your support 😊😊

[@TerryFleischmann]

Glad you're feeling better, Cap'n...🎉

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

Thanks Terry 👍😊 have a great weekend😊

[@DaveMak5150]

Thanks for all the vids!

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

Super thanks Dave Mak 😊😊👍 It’s 5150 time rock on 🤘

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

I caught your arrival. It airs Nov 8 at 8 am. Jet a blue did a wild go around just before you arrived 👍👍👍

[@lynnkramer1211]

Weather is nice here in BOI. 57/41 much cooler than TPA.

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

Felt like 41 this morning it was 68 with 15 mph NE winds and I was chilly 🥶 Hello Idaho

[@rjb073]

You gotta' stop picking on UAL. That was my paystub. Steve: I flew a new (4th flight) Boeing 757 from DEN to DFW. You're right. The smell is unbelievable. Better than a new car. If any young man or lady is looking for a rewarding career, consider being a pilot. UAL is hiring and they even have their own school for those wanting to learn how to fly. Our FTC (Flight Training Center) is the world's leader in training centers. We have more sims than any other airline. "Come fly the friendly skies."

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

Great story thanks for sharing 😊 yes United would make for a great career 👍

[@paulkelly7388]

I miss the slo-mo take offs and landings!

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

Thanks good reminder glad you enjoy them 👍👍👍

[@mikewilson4852]

I'd like to see Southwest return all their fleet to that Herb Kelleher livery. I've been kicking around the idea of coming down to TPA to do some spotting sometime between the end of January and early April, but can't find a decent hotel/motel rate or early morning arrival from Chicago or Milwaukee. Everything seems to be afternoon arrivals. I'll keep searching however.

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

Jan- April prime snowbird and spring break time busy busy here in Florida. Fingers crossed you find good combination air fare and hotels.

[@mikewilson4852]

@@CaptainStevenMarkovich Thanks for the info. Mike

[@theleastofpilgrims3379]

Captain, I love your channel. Did you ever get a chance to fly the late, great 737-200 or 737-500? I was born in 1985, and my mother completed her doctorate in Tucson between 89 and 91, while her husband and the rest of my family remained in Los Angeles, and so we traveled on your airline a lot, then, and later in my childhood as well (as we then moved to KCIC, closest airport KSMF, another Southwest stronghold), so the airlines I remember most from my youth were you guys, on the 732, 733 and 735, and of course United (and occasionally the United Express Jetstream 31 into CIC, which was also at the time home to Aero Union with their beautiful fleet of DC-4 and P-3 Orion firefighter conversions - also it was from CIC I logged my first hour when I was ten, in a Cessna 152 since that was the only plane the FBO had where my feet could reach the rudder pedals at that age), and also America West, and occasionally Continental and the former PSA parts of USAir, and AA probably due to the AirCal merger, and once, even TWA, which I badly miss. Fortunately after moving to Chico my flying did not end; I remember being thrilled by flying the L1011 TriStars of ATA to Maui and from Honolulu with an inter-island flight on Aloha (which was unnerving after the metal fatigue incident a few years previously, which was also at the time a popular film on the family channel, Miracle Landing), and since this was around the time the first edition of The Eyewitness Visual Dictionary of Flight had been published, which in terms of airliners had a beautiful Lockheed Electra, a BAE 146 under construction, and most exciting of all, a complete cockpit reference for the A320, that same year flying an America West A320 to Chicago and being shown the flight deck before departure and having my picture taken up there with what was for the time a fairly uncommon sight - now of course A320s are oppressively common, but in 1993 they still had a certain cachet. The low point of my aviation experience growing up was probably flying back from Europe in July, 2001 on an AOM A340-200 that had a number of impossibly rowdy passengers on board, who had overwhelmed the flight attendants, who were suffering horribly that flight, and who would sadly be out of a job in a few weeks as AOM was one of several airlines along with TWA, Sabena and Swissair which would not survive into 2002, although in the case of AOM it was total liquidation as opposed to a merger or a reorganization.

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

@@theleastofpilgrims3379 great story thanks for sharing. Yes on the 738-200 never been on a 737-500. Didn’t United and Continental fly them??

[@theleastofpilgrims3379]

@ United and Continental and Southwest had both the -300 and the -500, which is basically a shorter -300. Out west the -500 was used in the first generation “airline within an airline” Shuttle by United for flights between LAX and SFO, where I remember flying it, in addition to flying it with your airline. Continental and America West also operated most of the surviving 737-100 aircraft in the 1990s, sadly none of which remain other than the prototype (so all 30 of the 737-130 aircraft first delivered to Lufthansa wound up being scrapped, with AeroContinente in Peru being one of the last operators). The last -100 on the books of America West spent most of the 90s in an all business class configuration flying the Phoenix Suns, but Continental used their -100 series aircraft in mainline serve until 1999, when they retired all -100, -200 and 727 aircraft from their fleet (which surprised me; I had thought US Airways was the first to retire the 727, but US Airways used eight 727s as part of its Shuttle fleet, which was the former Eastern Shuttle, which they had acquired from Donald Trump and kept as a separate division, until the year 2000, but since Shuttle was a separate entity from the rest of US, they don’t appear in books from the late 90s that listed the fleets of the major airlines, one of which is quite good and includes the registry numbers, fleet numbers and MSN/production order number). Indeed in the case of USAir and Northwest, they retired their MD-80s around the same time as, or substantially before, the retirement of their 727s (Northwest only ever had eight or so Mad Dogs, inherited from Republic, and one of them was notoriously lost in a crash resulting from the pilots failing to extend the flaps, which if I recall either failed to sound a configuration alarm, or the configuration alarm was overlooked, but this resulted in stricter enforcement of the Sterile Cockpit rule, and was partially the fault of excessive delays at DTW).

[@theleastofpilgrims3379]

@ By the way Captain, if you haven’t visited his channel, I really like that of @RonRogers , a retired United 777 check airman with a rather impressive resume as a test pilot, who chaired ALPA’s erstwhile New Aircraft Evaluation Committee, which went by a few different names during his tenure, in the 1990s, and if you have copies of Airline Pilot magazine from that era you will encounter reviews written by himself or members of his team of the 777-200/300, A330, A319/20/21, the 737-800, the MD-90 and some other more exotic types such as the Dornier 328 and the failed commercial version of the McDonnell Douglas C-17, the MD-17. I also really wish Captain Wien at American had done more videos such as his review of the MD-80 flight deck before he retired, or would do some now - his father and grandfather built Wien Air Alaska, which was one of the great airlines of Alaska which have vanished into history along with Mark Air and Reeve Aleutian, and which, in a particularly tragic demise, was destroyed outright by a corporate raider in the early 1980s. Pacific Northern was the only airline other than Alaska to have a happy outcome, in that it was acquired by Western and formed an important part of Western, and then Delta’s, expansion into the Pacific, and indeed Western’s only Trans-Atlantic service was a flight from HNL-ANC-LGW over the pole, a thrilling route operated by their DC-10-30 which sadly was not a financial success, although its the kind of service one could see working with a 757 or one of the new A321-XLR aircraft or perhaps the 737-Max 10. Alaska for their part briefly flew to Vladivostok with the 707 or 720 (they also are one of the few US airlines, along with American and Northeast, which flew the Convair CV-990A Coronado, which was slightly longer than the Convair 880 flown by Delta, TWA and Northeast, and which had a Mach .9 cruising speed which was unsurpassed until Concorde (one will occasionally see the British making that claim about the equally rare Vickers VC-10, but the VC-10, while impressive and much loved by passengers for the quiet flight resulting from having all four engines mounted at the tail (like the similar Ilyushin Il-62 or the Lockheed Jetstar business jet), and slightly faster than some 707s, was not as fast as the Convair Coronado, which had a similar aesthetic to the Convair B-58 Hustler. Convair knew how to make a pretty jet - if I recall they were the first manufacturer to master the area rule with regards to supersonic aircraft, and their expertise with aerodynamics also led to the CV-990A having these amazingly cool looking “shock bodies” on the wings. In my childhood, the Convair liners became my favorite jetliners as soon as I found out about their existence, with the 707s and 727s tied for second place. But like Ron Rogers, I digress. I really wish more pilots would do the kind of narrative videos he does, as well as @74gear and @blancolirio , as it is a delight just listening to narrations on the flight experience from different pilots on KZbin, even those who have only been flying for a few years. And just simple narration and illustration at that - fancy editing of the sort one sees on Mentour is unlikely to be surpassed, and we don’t need more channels that copy that model, or more travel vlogs for that matter, since your colleague @FlyingWithBigErn , who I greatly admire, has absolutely mastered the pilot vlog experience.

[@stephenhudson8739]

Patience captain

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

That’s sounds like United now me 😜😜

[@jamesgardner578]

Miss ya herb!!!! N871HK!!!!

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

Well said 🙏

[@chucklaswick6631]

Just had Halloween and a costume party to boot.

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

Sounds fun. Quiet around here not safe for kids to be walking the sidewalks with all the debris from the hurricanes by us.

[@kentfuqua9634]

12:30 Did we actually see United do a modified Turn and Burn? I’m buying a lottery ticket!

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

Yes good eye pans get that ticket 🎫 let us know how you do 👍

[@anthonyjackson8624]

I have a 1/400 scale Gemini jets model of that desert gold southwest livery

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

That's so cool!😎

[@marymahakian6478]

Not sure if I appreciate your comment....

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

🙏

[@thunderamu9543]

Time lapse Par Excellence!🎬🎥🎞📽👍 0:50 Some things never change. UA♿🧱🧱🧱 1:24 I can't bag on SW too hard. SW is the only guaranteed purveyor of Turn & Burns. ⤴🔥As soon as I say that, they clip the bricks!🧱🤫 5:04 Super Thanks!🗣 6:02 A screamin Hawker departs!🔥🛫 6:50 SW again.♿🧱🧱🧱 8:07 UPS heavy.🚖 9:33 UPS flexes.🦾🛫 14:00 Those are wasps Sir!🚫🐝 14:14 Go for launch! Very STEEP today!🔥↗🚀+ 🗣ATL...!👌 14:28🚜✈🚜✈ 15:3 Big GBird goes!🔥🛫 18:23🚒 30:53 SW hits a clutch homer!🎨🛫

[@CaptainStevenMarkovich]

Thanks. I really enjoy making them. One from this morning came out well 😊👍

[@thunderamu9543]

@@CaptainStevenMarkovich You are on glideslope. You are on glidepath!👍