"Charles Newman" wrote in message
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> "Blake S" wrote in message
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>> "Charles Newman" wrote in message
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>> > "Bert Sweeney" wrote in message
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>> >> The wife and I want to go down to Disney World in December. Took the
>> >> kids
>> >> many times when they were growing up and had a lot of good times. We
>> > always
>> >> flew Eastern, the official airline of WDW. Now that we retired the
> wife
>> > and
>> >> I want to go see Mickey by ourselves. We want to fly the L-1011
>> >> Whisperliner because we know that is the quietest plane in the sky.
>> >> It
>> > can
>> >> fly automatically without the need for pilots, it takes off and lands
> by
>> >> itself. They even got those little closets to hang up your jacket
>> >> between
>> >> the seats. I was looking in the phone book for the number to the
> Eastern
>> >> airlines reservations to book our tickets but had a hard time getting
>> >> through. One place I called I got a Cuban who couldn't speak English.
>> > When
>> >> I told him I wanted to book tickets to Orlando on Eastern he started
>> > yelling
>> >> something about "El Grandote" and Celia Cruz. Does anyone know what
> that
>> > is
>> >> all about?
>> >>
>> >> Anyone know the number to Eastern reservations???
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> > HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
>> >
>> > Looks like you got fooled by one of the "virtual
>> > airlines" for Flight Simulator. A lot of the Virtual
>> > Airlines have such real looking Websites that a
>> > lot of people contact them thinking they are
>> > a real world airline.
>> > Eastern is only a virtual airline in the Flight
>> > Simulator world. It has ONLY existed as a
>> > VA in flight simulator. A lot of people do
>> > get fooled. Several virtual airlines, including
>> > Polar Air, Trans International (formerly Jetstar
>> > VA), and several others are often contacted by
>> > people thinking they are a real world airline,
>> > trying to purchase tickets.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Except that Polar Air is real. Who's fooling who?
>>
>>
>>
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> Check out http://www.polarairways.com, and take
> a closer look, you will see that it is a virtual airline
> that only exists in the Flight Simulator world
>
>
Well, since I don't rely on a video game as the end-all truth, there is
indeed and Polar Air Cargo that has a fairly large fleet. I've seen them
many times at airports throughout Asia.
Here's a photo of one of the "real" Polar Air Cargo planes
http://www.airlinerphotos.de/PolarAirCargo_B747-46NF_SCD__N451PA_1259_5046.jpg
Their web site can be found at:
http://www.polaraircargo.com/
As I said, I don't own the video game that you are talking about, so I can't
say if this is the same Polar Air or not.
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