Why does that tag appear sometimes? I've posted from my crackberry several times and its never appeared. Not complaining or anything, just geniuinly curious.

In other news, congrats Otter and the soon to be Mrs. Otter.

And in even more other news, I don't consider the E170 and E190 to be Express birds (despite what may be painted on the outside of them). They're more "mainline lite".

And you are correct, UAL does treat their Express pax with some semblence of humanity. Except for the whole website, IAD, Mr. Chiken, and ICC thing.