This line made me cringe:
"So what happens when the cool kid of the skies hooks up with the straight-A student? You get a straight-A student who's now dressing a little more punk rock and cracking open a beer in the parking lot"
Anyway, it's nice to see AS make improvements but if the airline can't get me from Portland to various mid-sized cities I need to get to for business (Providence, Hartford, Tulsa, etc.), it doesn't really matter.