First off, I really like the A319's, especially if you get into a row that doesnt have the middle seat occupied.

It was interesting at the end of our flight that the flight attendant said "Welcome to Milwaukee...We really appreciate you flying with us today and wish you a pleasant evening"...No mention of who we were flying, it was just "us"...The only way you knew it was a primary Midwest flight was that the pilot at the beginning of the flight said welcome to Midwest Flight 739.

For MME it was a fairly easy process for getting all of the new amenities that are now available. The flight attendants are given a list of where all the MME's are seated in the plane and about 10 mins after take-off they come through with a card and ask all of the MME's if they would like to watch DirecTV, you then swipe the card and you are all set.

It was that easy for the adult beverages as well...You just ask what you want and they give it to you...There was no confusion at all in who was an MME and who wasnt, which was great.

I have to say that the planes are great!!!! They have more legroom than the E170 and since there are 3 flight attendants on the flight the service seems to move faster with 2 doing drinks and 1 doing food...I can only imagine what the new signature seats will be like when they reconfigure the A319's in the coming months.

With the changes to the MME program it really puts Midwest on par with AirTran, if you are on a A319...It will be interesting whether Republic sinks the money into the E-Jets to get them WiFi or put DirecTV on them.