SAN had no jetways until the late 1970’s - AA and UA DC-10’s and DL L-1011’s all used airstairs.
Jump to postIt's too bad you didn't simply ask the Ops Agent that was boarding your flight if you could keep your boarding pass; most Southwest Agents keep the pass as standard procedure, but there is no official policy that it must be collected, in fact, I've recently heard Agents make the announcement at boar...
Jump to postI believe Western ran a classic round robin route from SLC to AUS and SAT; one flight ran SLC-SAT-AUS-SLC and the other SLC-AUS-SAT-SLC, so there was a nonstop and a one stop to each destination.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/RWA380" class="quote" target="_blank">RWA380</a> (<a href="#90" class="quote">Reply 90</a>):<br/><i> Quoting N200WN (Reply 56): The original Bra...
Jump to postThe original Braniff never flew to <acronym title="San Diego - International / Lindbergh Field (SAN / KSAN), USA - California">SAN</acronym>, but it did appear on one timetable route map post deregulation; I believe it was shown as an <acronym title="San Antonio - International (SAT / KSAT), USA - T...
Jump to postRG, I have not received an email yet, but just sent you an instant message here.
The traffic between SAT and Mexico is pretty impressive...and it's very high end.
There was a Qatar Airways A340 in <acronym title="San Antonio - International (SAT / KSAT), USA - Texas">SAT</acronym> yesterday. It departed this morning on a charter flight I believe. I have a photo on my phone of Interjet, Volaris, VivaAerobus, and Aero Mexico all parked at the four <acronym titl...
Jump to postI love to hear about <acronym title="Colorado Springs - Municipal (Peterson AFB) (COS / KCOS), USA - Colorado">COS</acronym> gaining new carriers and routes, and Alaska Airlines is a great addition. Although, my old school mind is always just a little disappointed when it's an <acronym title="Royal ...
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Jump to postThe runway lengthening is sorely needed...during the summer months Southwest has had to occasionally fuel stop -300's on the <acronym title="San Antonio - International (SAT / KSAT), USA - Texas">SAT</acronym>/<acronym title="Baltimore / Washington - International (Friendship) (BWI / KBWI), USA - Ma...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/GentFromAlaska" class="quote" target="_blank">GentFromAlaska</a> (<a href="#64" class="quote">Reply 64</a>):<br/><i>Although <acronym title="Roc...
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Jump to postThis has less to do with Alaska Airlines and more to do with an overall realignment of Southwest's route structure, high fuel costs, and the ever important "schedule optimizer". Compare this with the <acronym title="El Paso - International (ELP / KELP), USA - Texas">ELP</acronym>-<acronym title="Alb...
Jump to postMergers and rumors of mergers...wasn't this all predicted in the bible?
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Jump to postNobody mentioned Colorado Springs...having lived in Colorado for ten years, I highly recommend it for a weekend trip with the wife. Stay on the north side of town near the <acronym title="Air France">AF</acronym> Academy...check out Garden of the Gods, the Pikes Peak Cog Railway, Manitou Springs, Se...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/NZ107" class="quote" target="_blank">NZ107</a> (<a href="#43" class="quote">Reply 43</a>):<br/><i>Indeed, similar to a long haul flight. The vie...
Jump to postWith only one week, I'd skip west Texas and stick to the Houston-Dallas-San Antonio triangle (includes Aus). There is a lot to see and do, why waste your time with all that driving? Also, watch Interstate 35 and check TxDot - there is going to be a lot of construction and traffic on the I-35 corrido...
Jump to postThis aircraft was mostly before my time (or interest in aviation), but growing up in S. California, I remember both Air California and <acronym title="Pisa - San Giusto / Galileo Galilei (PSA / LIRP), Italy">PSA</acronym> keeping a few around just for the Lake Tahoe services. What I remember most, u...
Jump to postPick your disaster here - natural or man made: http://www.armageddononline.org/The-Big-Disaster-List.html
Jump to postI'd like to learn Persian - I just love the sound of it (Erfan fan here), but Spanish I could use every day.
Jump to postFalstaff, you don't have to justify keeping your cat indoors. My fat Tabby has lived a good 15 years healthy and disease free by being kept inside. That doesn't mean he never gets outside. A few times a day he sits by the back door waiting to cruise around our large fenced backyard. He walks the per...
Jump to postHere's my experience: My wife wanted a cat and I gave in - never was a cat person either. A real cute little female Calico. Funny thing is she loved me and only me, but she was a little behotch, and would hiss at all others. She pee'd around the house and scratched the furniture like crazy. She had ...
Jump to postThanks for your responses. I'm going the S/P route to get started and to avoid some of the extra complications in setting up an LLC. In <acronym title="Caribéenne de Transport (France)">TX</acronym> a "Franchise Tax" needs to be paid for an LLC but not for a S/P. Seems fairly simple to get started i...
Jump to postDoes anyone here run a home based Sole Proprietorship? If so, have you found the tax benefits to be worth the time and effort and how successful have you been? What is your home based business all about? I'm tossing around the idea and would like to see what others have learned from their experience...
Jump to postAfter stopping in La Jolla, I'd go have lunch at Filippi's Pizza in Little Italy between downtown and the airport. Then stroll through Balboa Park. Next, stop out at the end of Point Loma at Cabrillo National Monument to watch the sunset while traffic dies down on I-5 before heading back to L.A. A d...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/johnboy" class="quote" target="_blank">johnboy</a> (<a href="#56" class="quote">Reply 56</a>):<br/><i>I saw a news story that some counties in T...
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Jump to post...my wife spending too much money at Target. If she goes before me I'm going to have her cremated and her ashes sprinkled over the store. <TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=95% style="border-top: 1pt #28455E solid;border-right: 1pt #1B2E3F solid;border-bottom: 1pt #1B2E3F solid;border-left: 1pt #28...
Jump to postHere is one of my favorites from the current (Aug thru Oct) flight schedule: This route does not change flight numbers the entire day - departing <acronym title="Minneapolis / St. Paul - International / Wold-Chamberlain Field (MSP / KMSP), USA - Minnesota">MSP</acronym> at 0700 and terminating in <a...
Jump to postThe original <acronym title="Pisa - San Giusto / Galileo Galilei (PSA / LIRP), Italy">PSA</acronym> was in some kind of talks to assume some of Braniff's operations after the bankruptcy. I wonder how that would have turned out...<acronym title="Pisa - San Giusto / Galileo Galilei (PSA / LIRP), Italy...
Jump to postYes, there is a train from San Jose to San Francisco. From <acronym title="San Jose - Norman Y. Mineta International (Municipal) (SJC / KSJC), USA - California">SJC</acronym> the closest station is just a couple miles away in Santa Clara and there is a bus that will take you there. It's the best way...
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Jump to postThey do have 5th freedom rights between <acronym title="Vancouver - International (YVR / CYVR), Canada - British Columbia">YVR</acronym> and <acronym title="Mexico City (- Licenciado Benito Juarez International) (MEX / MMMX), Mexico">MEX</acronym>, however the flights operate only twice a week and w...
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Jump to postI would expect most of the new flying to be centered on <acronym title="OLD: Denver - Stapleton International (DEN / KDEN) (closed), USA - Colorado AND CURRENT: Denver - International (DEN / KDEN), USA - Colorado">DEN</acronym> and <acronym title="San Francisco - International (SFO / KSFO), USA - Ca...
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Jump to postGreat news for the Springs. I lived there for ten years and love to hear any good news about <acronym title="Colorado Springs - Municipal (Peterson AFB) (COS / KCOS), USA - Colorado">COS</acronym>. Hopefully they will someday see some mainline <acronym title="Frontier Airlines (USA)">F9</acronym> fl...
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