buscappy

or just call all 767 variants "seven six seven" and all 737 variants "guppy"
cracks me up listening to guys talk about their "nine hundred max nex gen" and then they go hop in a 1960s guppy

sleeves

Nobody talks about,"Their 900 max next gen" as it is not available to airlines. The Max is only being flown by Boing right now. While the NG's are quite different from the classics, I call all of the 737's a seven three....just like all the other airlines that fly them do.

UALinIAH

It's still a POS guppy lol. Lipstick on a 60's pig. But hey it pays the bills.

CHAIRMAN

Long history at UAL calling it the "37". Goes back to the 60ies as we operated the 720, and the 727. You could not say you were on the 72 and have it make any sense.

Chairman

SpecialTracking

sorry, slow night.

Regularguy

Wow someone revived a 3 year old thread to slam the writer? Stranger things have happened on the web.

For UAL pilots there was a day when we had the "rope start" and the "400" on the property. Both are variants of the "whale" and represented the biggest airplanes.

At the bottom end we had the "guppy," which came in two variants, "thunder" and "yuppie" (with some of the late sixties pilots calling it "fat Albert" before the Blue Angels named their C-130 that).

Oh and I forgot to mention the "standard," "stretch" and "advanced" versions of the "three holer."

Must be a "millennial" who complained about the precision of a "boomer" while ignoring completely the "X."

Why are some people so sensitive about a 767 of any size? It's just another comfortable, boring, two engine, and automated jet. If we really loved it we'd give it a handle.

tomgoodman

We did love it at Delta, but not quite as much as the L-1011 TriStar, so the 767 handle was "Bi-Star".

Lambourne

There is a very good reason the 747-400 was referred to as he "400". When we had both the rope start 747-200 and the 747-400 the equipment designator in unimatic was "747" for the rope start and "400" for the 747-400. If you wanted to bid one of the airplanes you had to put either "400" or "747" typed manually into the green screen. Same for looking at pairings in unimatic. Green screen required manual entries and thus a pilot was a "400" person to identify which equipment they were flying. Just like we called the 757/767 "767" because it came on the property first and that was the identifier in unimatic for bidding and looking at pairings.

It was not some great cosnpiracy to evoke superiority. It was just what the programmers used to identify the different fleets and seats.

Deafguppy

That sheds some light on things to this LCAL guy. I'm flying with a LUAL captain now and we are having a great time on the 73, thirty-seven, Super Guppy, whatever.

SpecialTracking

This ^^^. In the end, having fun is all that matters.