Business Journal article, including quotes from MMAC's Tim Sheehy, as well as Carol Skornicka:

http://milwaukee.bizjournals.com/mil...61&t=printable

Do you think that anyone has tried to reached Tim Hoeksema for comment?

Jim Stingl is always a great read. Thanks for sharing.

I thought we would get some hint of this from Mostly Air when he replied in post #88.

I suspect this may still be one of the unknowns. Stay tuned.

I'm not changing mine...these are the airlines of my childhood! YX and NWA inspired the love of flying over the last nearly 30 years. I've moved away from MKE, but air travel to me, always involves YX NWA and MKE :)

I'll never forget the old YX DC9, the NWA E Concourse in MKE, and the NWA DC10 serving MKE-MSP :D

Great memories, but a sad year for this aviation enthusiast, now in Dallas. Maybe I'll adopt WN...

The badger's name should be...are you ready?..."Chip"! Gives a little tip of the hat to Midwest and the chocolate chip cookies!

Hey...don't give your ideas away. There is going to be a contest to name the badger.

Considering a lot of people expect the cookies to go away within a couple years, I doubt they'd want to give it a name that makes people think "hey, why did they take away the cookies?"

I'd rather see Timmy. We need something to remember him by.

Don't worry, Tim will be remembered. His poor decision making and greed will be go down in Milwaukee airline history.

Save Tims name for the Weasel.

Well said.

I'd prefer a donkey for Tim, though.

It is just me, or has the "welcome the badger" commercial been modified a bit to make it less apparently that it wasn't shot in Milwaukee?

http://www.frontiermidwest.com/weare1/funstuff/

When this commercial first came out, there were a couple of comments here and elsewhere (admittedly by detail-oriented geeks like me) that in spite of saying that they were in Milwaukee, it was pretty clearly in Denver. I see to recall that in one shot in the background was a solid glimps of the distinctive DEN terminal canopy roof. No such view in the link above.

The ops tower shown behind Larry the Lynx is not one in Milwaukee, and the plains behind the row of Frontier planes is also not MKE, but these shots are generic enough that most people wouldn't recognize they aren't MKE.

Anybody else remember a the background looking clearly more non-MKE?

I'll agree...

Anyone else see the new GE commercial? Shows a YX E jet in the hanger at MKE (subdtle, but clearly MKE if you're from there), and then later shows a YX connect Embraer with full titles showing...of course I saw this for the first time AFTER they announced they were going with F9. Kind of funny that YX is the only airline in the commercial...I'll try to find a link for it.

I believe it was posted to this board a while back. Very nice commercial though. Showcases Midwest well.