Horizon Air Plane getting new logo paint

The logos and names of Washington State University, University of Washington, University of Oregon and Oregon State University will soon be sported by Horizon Air planes.

The Seattle-based airline, a subsidiary of Alaska Air Group Inc. (NYSE: ALK) will repaint four CRJ-700 airplanes in its fleet that were previously used by Frontier JetExpress. The planes needed to be repainted anyway, Horizon Air officials said. The first plane repainted will sport WSU's logo on the tail and on the fuselage later this month, followed by logos of Oregon, Oregon State and Washington.

Horizon currently flies to three of the colleges' home cities: Pullman, Wash.; Eugene, Ore.; and Seattle. Oregon State is located in Corvallis.

"We expect this will thrill fans of the school teams, and put a smile on the faces of graduates, current students and university staff," said Dan Russo, Horizon's director of marketing and communications, in a statement.

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[grivett40]

epic

[15Sebastiannn]

Cougs suck! Ducks for life!

[madnavigator]

Five people are Husky fans.

[hyperkid321]

i wana see a wisconsin badgers livery

[TheNurlanBurzuyev]

super

[icool247]

i wanna see LSU and Univerity of Florida paint job!

[ThePaulsenmike]

I help paint that plane I worked for AP associated painters

[marlinsbaseballfan]

cool airplane.

[SenorSpode]

@Apollo580: whoa, I said an all-Q400 fleet. Horizon Air themselves announced it. The reasons why: cheaper to procure, they carry comparable pax/bag load, more seat-miles-per-gallon, plus near-jet speed coupled with quicker turnarounds mean keeping a jet-based schedule. Cheaper maintenance is a big factor as well. There's rumour they want to stretch the Q400, but that's all it is right now: rumour. There's not much they can add onto the plane.

[SenorSpode]

In the "ATW Daily News" section of Air Transport World magazine, 1 July 2008, Horizon Air issued a statement that its fleet will be entirely Q400. All the 200s are being dry-leased to CommutAir and the CRJs will be completely out of service by April of 2010, disposition unknown. This is on record.