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Wings Air (Athens To ATL)

I live outside of Athens, Georgia and am flying on <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> from <acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson International (The William B Hartsfield) (ATL / KATL), USA - Georgia">ATL</acronym>-<acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - International (DFW / KD...

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Flights To Beize

Next summer our church (from suburban Atlanta) is sending a team of about 30 people to Belize for a mission trip. We will fly from Atlanta into Belize City. Delta could get us there non-stop, whereas <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> and <acronym title="Continental Airlines (USA)...

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RE: Delta.com Launches Gay-focused Travel Site

I am a conservative, evangelical male, and yet I think this makes sense for Delta. From a business perspective, the gay and lesbian market is lucrative, and the airlines are being smart to invest in marketing towards a distinct audience. By the way, off topic, but referred to in a previous posting, ...

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Short But Funny Eastern/Delta Story...

I am an aviation enthusiast who happens to be a minister of a church, and I frequently use airline stories and aviation examples. Here is an interesting story I came across. Fact or fiction? I am not sure, but it is a funny story. Generosity isn’t always as generous as it might seem. There is a stor...

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Las Vegas To Grand Canyon

In November, my wife and I will be on a business trip in Las Vegas, and I was looking for more information about tours and sightseeing from <acronym title="Las Vegas - McCarran International (LAS / KLAS), USA - Nevada">LAS</acronym> to the Grand Canyon. Do any of you have any information about these...

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RE: Flight Attendant School TV Show Tonight

Last week I was on Frontier from <acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson International (The William B Hartsfield) (ATL / KATL), USA - Georgia">ATL</acronym>-<acronym title="OLD: Denver - Stapleton International (DEN / KDEN) (closed), USA - Colorado AND CURRENT: Denver - International (DEN / KDE...

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RE: CO & Joel Osteen's Wife

As soon as I read the newspaper article anout Joel Olsteen's wife, I knew that Anetters would be going berzerk over this situation. I do not condone anyone who behaves rudely or arrogantly, and if she did so, she got what she deserves. But, let me mention a few things. I am the senior pastor of a fa...

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RE: Pax Booted Off WN Flight-obscene Word On T-shirt

I recently saw a T-shirt with two male stick figures having sexual relations. There was a line through it and underneath in big red letters it said, "Stop AIDS." Tell me that such a picture would not be offensive to some of you. While many of you bash Americans for having values, I am proud that man...

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Questions About Air Evac Of Hurricane Refugees

I saw a picture of what appears to be a C5 at Dobbins Air Force Base outside of Atlanta. They were loading passengers in these military planes. This leads to a couple of questions: First, are these flights subject to FAA rules. In other words, do they have to give a safety demonstration? Secondly, h...

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RE: Worst Strikes In Aviation History

Let me spread some light non the air traffic controllers strike of 1981. First, PATCO (Professional Air Traffic Controllers Oranization) was one of the few labor unions that supported President Reagan, and they assumed that he would be sympathetic to their cause. When they walked off the job on June...

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RE: Sun Country Pilot May Not Face Charges

Bad habit? Just like epilepsy, cystic fibrosis, and muscular dystrophy are bad habits?

I don't think anyone suffering from the above-mentioned diseases would be able to get a pilot's license. Alcoholism may be a disease, but there is still no excuse for improper behavior.

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RE: Shall We Tell The Media?

It is pretty sad to see the mistakes that the emdi makes. But what's even sadder is that they may be making the same mistakes when covering the war in Iraq, politics, economics, etc... and we would never know (albeit someone would).

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RE: Flight 93 Re-Creation To Air On 9/11

First, the goal of a television network is to get ratings. The truth is, FOX gets excellent ratings - far more than CNN, even though FOX is not available in as many areas as CNN.

But the article mentiones that the Disocvery Channel will be airing the program, not FOX.

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RE: Bible Bob, The FA

First, let me confess to being a pretty conservative, evangelical pastor of a church in the south. Secondly, I do not applaud the actions of Bible Bob. Jesus came to serve, and not to be served. I watch FOX News and I lean politically to the right, but no one has ever accused me of being narrow-mind...

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RE: Oldest Airline In The World.. Very Close..

And here's another piece of trivia. KLM's original fleet (circa 1920) consisted of several DC-9s that still fly with Northwest!!!!!

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RE: Dead Bodies = 18% Of B6's Cargo Revenue

I've been dying to fly JetBlue!

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RE: Why Do We Dislike NIMBY's?

Glom From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2005, 232 posts, <acronym title="Royal Air Force (United Kingdom)">RR</acronym>: 0 Reply 45, posted Tue May 17 2005 17:33:42 <acronym title="Utrecht - Soesterberg (UTC / EHSB), Netherlands">UTC</acronym>+2 and read 7 times: Quoting MCOtoATL (Reply 44): I am a big...

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RE: Why Do We Dislike NIMBY's?

We often throw around the word "hypocrite," but is someone a hypocrite simply because they don't want an airport built in their vicinity and yet if one is built they use it? It sounds more like "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em." I don't have sympathy for folks who get great real estate deals near an...

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Why Do We Dislike NIMBY's?

I was reading the post about whether or not Atlanta will ever have a second commercial airport, and it got me thinking: why are people on this post so antagonistic towards NIMBY's ("Not In My Back Yard - those who oppose airport expansion in their neighborhoods)? I love commercial aviation as much a...

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The Pilots....

Are the npilots commercial pilots or Air Force guys?

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RE: Firing Of ATC's In 1981

The article was interesting. I was reading "Splash of Colors" by John J. Nance, which is about Braniff (it's a great book, albeit out of print.) He mentions that when the air traffic controllers were replaced, many of the veteran airline pilots were pleasantly surprised by the friendliness and helpf...

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RE: Delta Suspends FA For Blogging!

If I was management at Delta, I too would be upset with her immature actions. While some may argue that there is nothing wrong with her displaying her uniform, by doing so she is no longer regardng her employer as "anonymous." Perhaps she previously made some disparaging remarks about her employer (...

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I Am Looking To Sell Some...

I have about 50 models (mostly 1:400 metal models) that I am looking to sell cheaply as I prepare to get married (and need money for the ring.) Some no longer have the boxes, but are all in great shape. I am looking to sell them for about $11 each, which would include shipping. If you are interested...

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RE: US Diverts Plane To Pick Up Bush Twins, 22 Others

I would be frustrated if I was on the plane that was diverted. Did the Bush twins have anything to do with causing the airline to make the choice. Probably. Although whenever there is a famous person who causes a diversion, there will always be cries of preferential treatment (there was controversry...

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RE: The World's Smallest Airline

Maybe they will look at the 717 and save the line on Long Beach!

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It Partly Depends On Area

Just yesterday a list of the most expensive cities came out. So trying to determine the best paid pilots could arguably depend at least partly on their location. For example, if a jetBlue captain made $100,000 (for argument's sake) and he was based at <acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy Inter...

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TV Documentary On AA 1420 Crash @ Little Rock

I couldn't find any other thread about this (sorry if I missed it.) The National Geographic Channel had an interesting hour-long show about the <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> crash at Little Rock. National Geographic has had several interesting airplane shows as of late (albei...

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RE: AP Uses A.net Photo In Kerry Article

Perhaps the Associated Press purchased the photo from the photographer; in this case, they own it (based on the contract signed between the AP and the photographer.) But if they own the photo, they can take the credit for it.

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RE: CO A300's, A Mechanical Nightmare?

Weren't they ex-Eastern planes? I have heard that EAL didn't take good care of their planes (Delta had issues with ex-Eastern L-1011's.) Could this be one of the reasons why the planes were problems?

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JetBlue Ranked #1 In New Survey

I searched to see if this had been posted, and didn't find it anywhere. Associated Press Published on: 04/05/04 WASHINGTON -- JetBlue was No. 1 in quality among U.S. airlines in 2003, the first year that it carried enough passengers to be ranked, according to an annual study released Monday. The bud...

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DC-8

This is a DC-8...
I don't know if FedEX still uses DC-8's or not, but UPS does. In fact, several smaller cargo companies use the 8 as well.

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Delta On Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve of 2001, I was catching a 9:50 p.m. flight form Orlando to Atlanta. Usually this is a packed flight, but on this night there were only 17 people on board - the airport was eerily quiet and empty. We were on a 777 (the one with in the Olympic figureskater livery.) When we boarded, th...

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Last Night's Episode

It has become the "same old same old." The worst was the drama involving those guys looking for Eminem. I mean, c'mon! At the end, they hugged and you would have thought that someone just died (plus the sentimental, sapy music didn't help.) Like, Eminem would be fying SWA (or any airline for that ma...

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Airplane

Not only would "Airplane" be the funniest airline movie ever, but a recent poll of Hollywood-types and entertainment reporters had a list of the Top 100 Funniest movies of all time, and "Airplane" was #1.

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RE: DC-10 Grounding 1979

No doubt the grounding of the DC-10 was in the news a lot then. I wonder what it was like for the average flyer once the 10's returned to service. I wonder if folks would have been nervous to get aboard an airliner that had been criticized in the media. I wouldn't be nervous about it, but I bet it w...

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Quite A Few

The best book I have is called "Hard Landing," by Thomas Petzinger. "Splash of Colors" by John J. Nance is also a riveting, story-like narrative of the fall of Braniff. "Freefall" by Jack E. Robinson looks at the demise of Eastern. Robinson was a part of Martin Shagrue's leadership team. Therefore, ...

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RE: Is WN That Trashy?

First, I find it interesting that many of you have a self-righteous view of yourselves, looking down on people for socio-economic reasons. Secondly, the show Airlines shoots tons of footage, and uses only the most extreme examples. Thirdly, there are a lot of travelers who don't dress up to fly (I a...

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RE: Another Simpsons Aviation Reference:

There was one about a year and a half ago (it has been on twice, and each time I forget to set the VCR) in which Krusty runs for Congress and the Simpsons get upset over air traffic flying over their house. Does this sound familiar? Does anyone have a copy of this episode (I will gladly pay for it.)

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RE: Disappearing National Airlines 727

Dear OPNLguy, Thanks for the help. I looked at several websites, and notice that few give any specific details. In fact, one site says it occurred in late 1969, while another says August 22, 1970, and yet another says 1971. Like you said, if it is really true you would think that people would rememb...

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Disappearing National Airlines 727

This has been discussed before, and yet I could not find it in the search engine. In the late 60's or early 70's there was a National Airlines 727 on approach to <acronym title="Miami - International (MIA / KMIA), USA - Florida">MIA</acronym>. It mysteriously disappeared off of the radar for 10 minu...

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It Works Both Ways!

Like I said, the pilot made a tremendous error in judgment and should not have done what he did.

On the other hand, what if passengers were offended by the movie, which features homosexuals? Should the airline get in trouble for that (it is obviously offensive to some people.)

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On The Other Hand...

As I previously stated, the pilot was inappropriate and unprofessional is saying anything about his faith. On the other hand, could we not ask that the person who chooses in-flight movies be fired because there are some people who are offended by lesbians? And even if you choose not to watch the mov...

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RE: The "Crazy" AA Pilot Speaks!

I agree that he did not act in good judgment and he should not have done what he did (at least when he did it.) And yet I also find it interesting that the same people that accuse him of being a Christian "nut" are the same ones who are being so narrow-minded themselves. Sure, he made a mistake, eve...

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A Minister's Point Of View...

As a conservative, evangelical Christian and minister of a fast-growing church, I admit that while I admire the pilot for the strength of his belief, I don't think it was the appropriate time and place. On the flip side, I think it's incredibly narrow-minded to say that he is "sick" or unbalanced be...

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Service May Stink, But Complaints Are Down

While service (at least on domestic airlines within the US) is being watered down (as travelers focus more on price,) complaints are also way down. Perhaps this is due to lowered expectations? Here is the article form today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Last year was a bust financially for the air...

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What About Inside?

I have flown Air France a couple of times and the cabins were in great shape. Obviously, the outside of a plan can get dirty quickly (maybe United was onto something by having dark planes,) but what airline has the worst interior? This could include shabby carpet, worn seats, garbage on the floor, o...

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Look At Delta...

I fly Delta a lot and like the airline, but some of their aircraft will given wven the dirtiest Air France plane a run for its money! Many of Delta's planes, especially the ones in the old, old scheme look prety rough.

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RE: SWA Not Liable In Use Of Rhyme

A previous post stated: "From the accounts I have read, I am the first to admit that it does sound like a pretty stupid case. However, as they say, don't judge a person until you've walked a mile in his (or her) shoes. It may very well be that, in the context of those sisters' life experiences, the ...

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In 2010....

A recent post about which airlines will still be around in 2010 inspired me to think of some of the future topics here on A-net.... In 2010, here are some of the posts you will find on this forum: 1. Why is Virgin America dropping Toledo? 2. The <acronym title="Virgin Express (Belgium)">TV</acronym>...

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RE: Just A REMINDER:AIRLINE Is On NOW!

The show does a good job of showing the extreme measures that the employees go through. SWA really comes out smelling like a rose when people see this show. By the way, it's funny that we find it racist when someone refers to "Arabs," but we don't seem to mind when we refer to people as "trailer tra...

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