Flame away for self-promotion, I don't care...I just wanted to share a cool experience with the users here.

A couple of weeks ago, I got an email from someone who had seen my pictures here and asked if I was a Southwest employee. I replied that I was and I thought that was the end of it. Last week, the same guy contacted me identifying himself as a Southwest employee and asking permission to use a couple of my photos for a website he was designing about our new SWACOM (ACARS datalink) system. I told him that he could use them free of charge as long as he included a photo credit beneath each shot, which he did. He sent me a couple of links to the test pages he was working on and I liked what I saw, but unfortunately they are part of SWA's intranet and can't be accessed externally. The ironic thing is that I have been helping installing the ACARS modifications on some of our aircraft as they come into heavy check.

Anyway, I think that it's a high form of flattery to have my pictures used by the airline I work for and thought it was cool that they found them through Airliners.net.