The magic word has been spoken.

I see you prefer the Kolsch or other light varietals. An occasional amber or stout should also be included in the plans. :D

All are welcome, as well as Lambics and Barleywines.

I had a most interesting beer the other day which some might call light but with a 9-10% alcohol content, it has a kick more like wine than like beer.

It is brewed in Quebec and named La fin du Monde. It came in a 750 ml bottle and like wine, it was sealed by a cork. It is relatively pale, semi-filtered, with some wheat beer qualities and a bit of a fruity aroma and taste. It was truly excellent with our Irish Pub dinner.

Yes, it's a good one...from Unibroue. My personal favorite of theirs is Terrible. Despite the name, it's fantastic.

my Rossetta Stone Level 1 training would lead me to believe that La fin du Monde translates to "end of the world"

9:38am??? you are a half hour late.:D:p (east cost time)

You would be correct.

Was PE the first airline to have 31" pitch in standard mainline aircraft?

At the NYC Belgian Beer mini-DO a few weeks ago shell_nyc introduced us to a beer called Lucifer. Drank WAY too easy for an 8% brew.

I've had all those - I like La Fin du Monde and Trois Pistoles.

Actually it might have been one of the 737-100s that PE bought from LH on start up and reconfigured with 29" pitch. It was not all that long ago that CO was still using them (you could tell from the rear door and the German inscriptions on some of the bathroom fixtures). PE did not get any 727s for its first year or two and then, unbelievably, they started deploying the 737s on such short distance routes as EWR-ACY. That one did not last long and clearly to me seemed to be the beginning of its end.

The last few posts have reminded me of another that I had forgotten. I used Empire on and off LGA-ROC quite a few times the year that I had a project up there. The most significant thing about Empire (before it was folded into PanAm) were being sure that you did not hit your head on the entrance door to the F-100s and also being served, on the house, Matt's beer from the upstate NY brewery. List in milepost #5382 has been edited.

I have omitted Allegheny and the Allegheny Commuter because those companies were merely rebranded as USAir and USAir Express and really only the names are defunct. The airlines still operate, as also is the case with America West altho to all intents and purposes, the way they did the takeover cum merger should have enabled us to put USAir on our lists. :rolleyes:

About 2 years ago, on an FL flight ATL-DEN, I got talking to the guy next to me, who, with his three kids and wife in the other seats of our row, was connecting through on a ski vacation. Seems AirTran/Wendys/Coke had a promo where, if you collected like 50 drink cups, you got a reward travel voucher. Through neighbors, dumpsters, and trips to Wendys, they got their cups.

Thing was, since seats were reward bucket, they couldn't find availability for 6 to go on the big skiing trip until about June. The guy was a controller at Jacksonville Center, one of the ones hired when Reagan broke the union back when. He mentioned to his supervisor that he still couldn't schedule his vacation, and told him why. Two days later, his wife got a call from AirTran, and they got his trips laid in on decent flights around a weekend. Turned out the supervisor had called FL's chief pilot's office, and asked if there were anything they could do to help. There was.

So, it actually was 29" pitch, not 31"? Yikes.

Midway 1 was before my time - I think my dad took a handful of flights when he was flying CHI-ATL a lot on business in the 80s/early 90s. I think he mentioned an unscheduled fuel stop in CHA on one flight...

Midway 2, well, I had no need to fly them.