OK, 'fess up. Who has flown PE? I did, once, to St. Pete.

On a 727, IMHO the best damn airliner ever.

Nor the yuk-yuk cabin announcements.

I have the highest respect for WN flight deck crews - they are some of the best in the industry. Aft of the reinforced door is another matter.

Eastern
Critter
ATA
Republic
Mohawk
Allegheny
Aloha
TWA
Pan Am
Varig
Wings
(who crashed the CASA into DTW in the late 80's?)
PBA
NY Air
Presidential
PE
...

I had to google some of these names as I wasn't sure I remembered them correctly. Wow, this goes back a ways. Scary

America West
Eastern
Empire
ATA
Republic
Mohawk
Allegheny
Aloha
TWA
Pan Am
Piedmont
Midway
NY Air
EOS
Silverjet
National
Braniff
People's Express
Im sure there are more but I am getting tired now and this is depressing.

I flew PE several times growing up - mostly to LAX. I miss the transcon 747s...

Lord, I had forgotten all about Midway. Around 1990, Acme food stores in Jersey had these promotions where, for every X dollars in register receipts, you could buy vouchers, by zone, for Midway. Like 69, 79, 89, 99, all in, all the way to the West Coast.

Then they got cocky and got into US's face in PHL, and they were bled to death.

CO buying up PE was probably one of the smartest decisions that management made in the early nineties.

Make that 1987. ;)

CO did a similar promotion in 1987 with Kroger receipts. My family of five went to Boston and back for something like $250 plus a ton of Kroger receipts exchanged for CO flight vouchers. We didn't even have a Kroger in the small town where I lived, so every time we were in Houston or Beaumont where there were Kroger stores, we stocked up on groceries we needed anyway. And, we picked up every discarded receipt on the parking lot and check out area floor that we saw. It took three trips to three different airports to get all of it exchanged, due to a limit on the value of receipts that could be redeemed at a single time. I remember a CO agent at BPT having a fit over all of the receipts we turned in with water stains and tire tread marks. For some reason, CO never ran such a promotion again. :rolleyes: I also remember that trip as being one of the ultimate Lorenzo-CO bad experiences. Basically anything that could go wrong the flights did, with the exception of outright cancellation. My parents kept reminding us the only reason we were flying CO was because it was so cheap and to just be patient.

This was the summer after we stocked up on Skippy Peanut Butter to get the family to SEA on the cheap with AA.

Possible Box Mini-DO destinations
 

http://travel.latimes.com/articles/l...&single_page=y

Pick a site, any site. All of them have good reason to attend, and none are in CLE/IAH/EWR. :D

There have been previous FT DOs at the Oregon Brewfest and I understand that they were quite successful.

Ond of course there is Oktoberfest in MUC, which is one of the greatest beer events in the world.

Hmm... beer, Pacific Northwest/Colorado/California, Box, and Do. I can't imagine that anyone in here would ever want to attend such a thing.

Yeah...but the weak dollar makes that harder to do these days, for the flight costs, hotel costs and beer costs. :(

But when the liter mugs come out and the oom-pah starts, you forget about such mundane stuff. :)

you are right
count me out :D