<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/rlwynn" class="quote" target="_blank">rlwynn</a> (<a href="#24" class="quote">Reply 24</a>):<br/><i> The defenders of this are wrong. The airlin...
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Jump to postAgain.... imagine he had pants on and yo <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/777Jet" class="quote" target="_blank">777Jet</a> (<a href="#19" class="quote">Reply 19</a>):<br/><i> Th...
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Jump to postI guess I just see things differently. As a flight attendant, knowing who normally gets seated in the exit rows... I would actually feel more comfortable having my partner, who has a prosthetic leg and who goes to the gym on a daily basis and who participates in mountain bike races and who actually ...
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Jump to postDidn't see this posted yet.... "A wounded veteran flying from Seattle to Washington, D.C., on Alaska Airlines says he was forced to move out of an exit row because of his prosthetic leg." <a href="http://www.king5.com/news/local/Vet-prosthetic-leg-Alaska-Airlines-261670701.html" target="_blank">http...
Jump to postAs a random side-note to the <acronym title="Continental Airlines (USA)">CO</acronym> Cleveland hub... Does anyone else recall back in the early to mid-90s, during the <acronym title="Continental Airlines (USA)">CO</acronym> Lite years, when <acronym title="Continental Airlines (USA)">CO</acronym> r...
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/LOWS" class="quote" target="_blank">LOWS</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i>Just out of curiocity, when was the <acronym title...
Jump to postHere is a United Airlines ad from 1963 that shows the old terminal style:
http://www.departedflights.com/UAmostjets63.html
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/jfk777" class="quote" target="_blank">jfk777</a> (<a href="#1" class="quote">Reply 1</a>):<br/><i>Why would there be a "Full" sized dog in the c...
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Jump to postSome interesting comments regarding this operation that I found in some old Western Airlines annual reports: From Western's 1980 Annual Report: "On October 27, Western inaugurated service to London from Anchorage and Honolulu, completing the first step in the company's lengthy effort to obtain route...
Jump to postI will say this... I have a buddy who flies for a regional airline. It is no secret that pay work rules at regionals in the United States are less than stellar. Granted, he has now been there as a flight attendant for a few years. However, he had the chance to interview with Virgin America.... The 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/steex" class="quote" target="_blank">steex</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>I believe the <acronym title="American Airlines ...
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/anon2070" class="quote" target="_blank">anon2070</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i>From the thread title, I assumed we were t...
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/AmericanAirDFW" class="quote" target="_blank">AmericanAirDFW</a> (<a href="#1" class="quote">Reply 1</a>):<br/><i>they just like spirit are tryi...
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This may or may not be the right place to address this.... But since this thread is about consumers and Spirit Airlines... there is a serious question I want to ask. It absolutely baffles me when I check out the consumer reviews of Spirit Airlines on the skytrax site. There is negative review after ...
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/PITrules" class="quote" target="_blank">PITrules</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i>At one time, US had hubs in <acronym title...
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Jump to postI personally didn't care for it and pretty much rolled my eyes and closed the article halfway through it.
It really had nothing to do with aviation. Maybe it this should be moved to the non-av forum.
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/wedgetail737" class="quote" target="_blank">wedgetail737</a> (<a href="#17" class="quote">Reply 17</a>):<br/><i>Isn't the <acronym title="San Di...
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/WesternA318" class="quote" target="_blank">WesternA318</a> (<a href="#99" class="quote">Reply 99</a>):<br/><i> USAir was, at the time, an East C...
Jump to postOne thing I think some people might be interested in.... Terminal B, while now the American Eagle terminal.... and just a decade ago was the "everyone else" terminal..... and yes... I do mean EVERYONE ELSE.... Terminal B in the late 90s was home to just about EVERY non-hub carrier at <acronym title=...
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/luv2fly" class="quote" target="_blank">luv2fly</a> (<a href="#15" class="quote">Reply 15</a>):<br/><i>I always associate the word anniversary to...
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Jump to postI didn't see this posted anywhere on anet yet. Looks like American Airlines has agreed to pay $135 million to to Cantor Fitzgerald, a company who had it's offices near the top of the North Tower of the World Trade Center and lost 658 employees that morning. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/new...
Jump to postI guess my big question is: Whether you love Southwest or hate Southwest.... How is it in ANY way fair that should Southwest opt to operate from ANY gates at <acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - International (DFW / KDFW), USA - Texas">DFW</acronym> (or any airport within 80 miles of the Metoplex) ...
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/mariner" class="quote" target="_blank">mariner</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i>Not for me. I think the new uniform is a hug...
Jump to postHow did I know that the MOMENT the original poster mentioned Frontier, that a certain poster would be <acronym title="Albenga (Villanova d'Albenga) (- Clemente Panero) (ALL / LIMG), Italy">ALL</acronym> OVER this thread telling us how Frontier is special and different and doesn't really apply to wha...
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Jump to postYou know... for those of us that are old enough to remember it....and for those of us that are old enough to actually have worked for an airline that day... We really don't want to talk about it. We just don't. I don't expect the people on here who were barely born or who were just teenagers to unde...
Jump to postHow about this documentary about the Air Canada inflight fire...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvbrGwtFY98
The incident occurred in 1983, yet the seatbacks show the Air Canada logo from the late 90s.
Hello, all! I was hoping someone could shed some light on this for me. I was looking at an old OAG from 1996 and noticed a nonstop flight from Geneva to Washington Dulles that raised some questions. The flight in question departed Geneva at 12:20pm, arrived at Dulles at 3:40pm on an A310. Nonstop, a...
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Jump to postWhy is this even a discussion??? The answer is: The people whom Southwest pay to determine which routes to fly have determined that <acronym title="Seattle / Tacoma - International (SEA / KSEA), USA - Washington">SEA</acronym>-<acronym title="Portland - International (PDX / KPDX), USA - Oregon">PDX<...
Jump to postSo it was found in the morning? Who knows how long it had been there.... Just a thought... could it have been there for several days and could that aircraft have been used for a military charter in the day(s) leading up to it being found? A military charter means the presence of guns in the cabin. J...
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Jump to postI see your age listed as 13-15 years old, Piedmont 727 (a GREAT name, by the way).... A bit of a history lesson for you... in the mid-80s, a low-fare budget airline named People Express operated many crazy late night flights.... Looking at their July 1984 timetable, you will find: Jacksonville-Newar...
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