Oso planning to go pro
Staying at the JW in San Antonio (highly recommend) and my wife ordered some lunch at the pool. Bill came and I told the young twenty something waitress that we’re guests of the Underhills. Needless to say she didn’t pick up the reference.
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny. Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.
I just bought a piece of luggage .. the $120 model will do just fine. Serious q, Briggs & Riley seems to be $300-600. What makes it 3x better?
Lifetime Guarantee and it holds more on the inside because the handle is on the outside . I got one after Delta ruined a great Tumi I had for many years . I recommend the Briggs.
I have had Hartman for years. I go nowhere without it.Today I have my Hartman road warrior. I began calling it that because it has been rebuilt at least twice and is so scuffed up, it looks like it has been with me for all the miles I've ever flown.Best buy in the world for Hartman is Lebanon, Tennessee. It's about a half hour east of Metro Airport in Nashville and is Hartman's factory store. Great luggage. Reasonable prices.
Making a note for a future trip down.
There is also an outlet store in Aurora.
It has a casino in the airport. It is very clean and very well organized and laid-out. Lots of shops. That's my experience. I'll be passing through Schipol-Amsterdam next weekend myself.
I can't believe casinos haven't made their way into more airports (sans free alcohol). It would be like printing money.Not too mention, throw some small seat movie theaters in airports too. Upon entry you get a little pager or something where you input your flight info and it pages you 15 min before boarding.
I have a 5 hour layover in Amsterdam next month. I have heard it from many people, and have seen it a couple times on this list, but what makes this airport so great?
So.. I wouldn't let any of my friends or family fly allegiant after reading this. I knew nothing of the company prior to reading.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/allegiant-air-the-budget-airline-flying-under-the-radar/FAA switching from enforcement to compliance also seems like a move that may be bad for citizens
Never flown Allegiant and never will. I hate rock-bottom airlines. This is what happens when costs are the prevailing reason why a company exists.Conversely, I fly United for a reason. While I have seen some maintenance problems on United jets from time to time, none were "mission critical." In all my years of flying, I have three aborted landings, all due to air traffic control errors, one aborted take-off and one "near miss" by taking advantage of a scheduling glitch and missing a plane that crashed. Again, air traffic control errors. What the 60 Minutes report did not address is the "outsourcing" of maintenance and the fact that if a plane breaks down away from the maintenance base, the "local" airline will fix it at the local airline's prevailing costs. Which means that if AAR's maintenance base is in Kansas City and a plane breaks down in Houston, they probably have to pay someone else in Houston who has experience with the MD-80. That gets expensive.They never touched on who AAR is and whether it was AAR or Allegiant who had the problems. If it is the former, shouldn't Allegiant find a new maintenance provider?Other airlines do this all the time and maintenance often is done in places like Lake City, FL, Duluth etc. But they also have big in-house maintenance operations and parts inventories around the United States.Secondly, other airlines fly the MD-80 and its derivatives. Delta and American both have substantial fleets of MD-80s still (though American's is quickly on the way out and Delta's will be gone when it starts getting the CS-100). What separates American and Delta from Allegiant? Probably in-house maintenance and an acknowledgment these planes are old. There's nothing wrong with old planes -- just like there is nothing wrong with old cars. The key is maintenance. You have to know older planes require more frequent maintenance and if you provide it, the planes are fine.Delta was flying up until about four years ago, DC-9-50 models purchased by North Central Airlines that I swear I flew on in high school and college. The model 50s were purchased in the early 1970s.I knew it was a North Central jet because the registration was N---NC. Plus, the cockpit was turquoise in color. I doubt Delta had the kind of aborted take-offs, inflight problems and other issues Allegiant/ValueJet had. Delta and Northwest maintain their airplanes!