Yes. And I'm leaving it at that.

ROFLMAO!! Another convert thanks to the BOX!!

Looks like I avoided the devil last FRI although today I am scheduled to go to DCA and connnect to US Air!! :)

One of the best fake April Fools Day press releases I've seen was from UAX, op'ed by Mesa that said that "in the interest of customer expectations" they were going to be "an industry pioneer and abandon all published time-tables and flight times." Passengers were just expected to show up at the airport within specific time-periods (morning, afternoon, evening) and their flight would leave "whenever we got around to it."

Classic.

^

I completely support this statement.

Damn. Sounds like I missed an awesome Saturday. :mad:

Not that I had a bad weekend here, or that our budget right now even allows for much personal travel :(, but I still would have loved to have been there, especially now.

:D:D Good to see you guys on Saturday.

It was good to see all of you guys also ^ I did not think he had a good time, but I am glad he did.

Morning Box. Today's work conference call is already done, my partner got up a little early this morning to make some really yummy breakfast tacos with eggs, cheese, grilled onions, and some spicy cilantro lime marinated shrimp we made last night, and I've got a hot cup of 100% Kona coffee we brought home from Hawaii.

Never thought I'd say this, but so far it's a very good Monday morning. And, the fact that I don't have to leave for my flight until 3:15 PM makes the day even better.

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Good luck with that. :p

That's hilarious.

I remember well how the on-time rating of the 4:30 PM-ish IAD-ATL flight on Friday afternoon rapidly deteriorated when that flight moved from being operated by Shuttle America to Mesa. Not only did we lose the nice E70 on the flight to a crappy CR7 that was beat to Hell (seriously, Mesa's CR7s always look awful, inside and out, compared to the other UAEX CR7s), but the flight went from always departing on time and arriving in ATL 10-15 minutes early to always departing 30-40 minutes late. And, the lateness was always explained as "late crew" or "maintenance." A few months later UA aligned the schedule so that the flight departed later, and had another 15 minutes of padding in the scheduled arrival time at ATL, but that just shortened the published delays. It still was never on time.

And we went from having good crews on Shuttle America to having flight attendants like the Mesa one who was pregnant, missing several front teeth, and wore sandals (clearly an FAA violation) during the service. I had no issue with the pregnant thing, and usually don't care what the FA looks like as long as the appearance is professional, but honestly, the whole package here was pretty unprofessional for most occupations. I remember the guy next to me leaning over and commenting, "I guess the Miss Teenage Pregnancy West Virginia title comes with a free job at Mesa these days."

Seriously, that regional needs to be put down. I don't understand how they remain in business.

Stick around here long enough, go to enough Dos, see enough alcohol being consumed, and you see and hear things. That's all.

Or for the one or two weeks of real spring in March.

Couldn't agree with you more.

In other news, I've got a ssullivan-esque trip coming up in terms of randomness.

LGA - YYZ (AC)
YYZ - ORD - EAU (UA)
EAU - ORD - LGA (UA)

The :rolleyes:s keep on :rolleyes:ing.

Good morning Box. So very tired but I am at work.

They help. But more importantly it's the massive amounts of air conditioning that make living there tolerable, especially in areas along the coast where the humidity monster likes to torture people.