Legend Airlines will begin service from Love Field (not to be confused with Lovell Field, aka CHA )to LAX and Dulles on Leap Year Day. Las Vegas to follow. Service is on DC-9s, reconfigured to 56 business-class seats (to meet the Wright Amendment rules). I priced a 14-day non-refundable roundtrip to LAX at $314.

FF bonus: Sign up and fly one roundtrip by the end of May to be placed in Founders' Club--double miles for life! They have the usual Web booking bonus, plus car partners (50 miles on Hertz or Avis, must be with a flight), a hotel (Wyndham for 500, no flight requirement), and Boston Coach. Miles are redeemable for flights on Legend or Delta.

For planespotters, the tail is blue, with a gold/white star resembling Prodigy's logo.