US Airways Dividend Miles (Pre-FlightFund Merger) - Contract Carrier Question

I was just getting ready to book a flight to TRI and I noticed that the A/C was coded a J41 which is that piece of crap the UA uses. The web page did not show it as a UA code share. Since when did Trans States fly those bucket of bolts?

I can remeber flying a J41 back in early 2001, quite an unpleasant experience. The only thing worse was flying on a J31, thank goodness they got rid of those last year!

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Trans States has had J41s for quite some time, operating mostly commuter routes out of BWI. The J41 is actually a decent plane ... the J32 is awful, though.

Please... no J31's!!!! CCAir (when they existed as US Express) used to fly them out of BLF/BKW to CLT (and PIT for awhile). Nice plane when the weather is beautiful, but hell when there's a few clouds or worse. A couple of quick stories...

I remember a flight the weekend before Thanksgiving out of BLF... full flight of 19, There were some guys onboard who had been deer hunting and partaking of the local lube (aka moonshine) I had found out while a couple of us were talking later at the USAir Club . It had gotten rough, and another on the flight told me those guys filled up a few bags before it was over.

Another flight from ROA to PIT, mid-morning in April '95. There was an equipment change on the origination in PIT, downgrade from a D38 to a J31. Beautiful when left ROA, but came down over Monroeville in the middle of a thunderstorm. Approach into PIT became a see-saw ride. When we landed an got to the gate, the first officer made the comment "He did a good job landing that one". I had met my finance at PIT and she was shaken up good on her incoming flight from MSP, so I know it was one heck of a storm we came down through.

Colgan now flies USEx out of here in Beech 1900's. I've flown them a few times, and they seems to be a major improvement over the J31's.


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A "Mileage Run"... is that what they're called? I've been doing them for years and didn't know they had a name.