Grounded: Casino Express

Описание: This episode of Grounded is off to Elko, Nevada where we take a look at the history of Casino Express. Founded specially to operate gaming charters taking gamblers to casinos, Casino Express would go on to operate ad-hoc executive charters as well as provide aircraft operations for Tahoe Air before moving fully into executive charters and rebranding as Xtra Airways. You'll have surely seen the King of Diamonds or the Queen of Hearts 737s, now is the time to find out the story behind those aircraft so sit down, grab a brew and enjoy!

** Contents of this Video **
00:00 Intro
00:14 Red Lion Hotels
01:35 Casino Express founded
06:52 Spirit of America collapses
07:21 TEM Enterprises steps in
08:28 The famous aircraft liveries
10:35 Red Lion One
11:25 Tahoe Air
12:55 A change in direction
14:41 A change in ownership
15:05 Xtra Airways
15:24 Outro

It had been a real struggle getting the latest episode complete, now that I'm flying again I am very, very busy with 1-2 days free per week to research, write, record and compile an episode. In the 2 months since the last episode I had 4 false starts with other airlines before taking on Casino Express, after pulling out all the stops to get it done earlier this month I discovered that the audio had been ruined from about halfway in and thus I would need to re-record it all. Having rushed back from New York last weekend and despite being called off a home-standby to operate a flight to Turkey the next day I have somehow managed to get this completed and online in time for a Saturday release. I honestly will try harder to keep the episodes coming at a much better rate so stay tuned for future episodes :)

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