In article >,
The Bubbo > wrote:

> me wrote:
> > In article >,
> > The Bubbo > wrote:
> >
> >> Today was better than my flight down. Left at 7, landed in memphis at 9am,
> had
> >> a 5 HOUR layover that got extended another 90 minutes because the plane got
> >> delayed in Detroit. Wanna know what there is to do at the Memphis
> >> international airport? ****all! that's where there is to do.
> >
> > The saying around Northwest Airlines is that they had three hubs:
> > Motown (Detroit), Snowtown (Minneapolis/St. Paul), and Notown
> > (Memphis). Based on a business trip I once took to the Memphis
> > airport (my business was _at_ the airport), I'd have to agree.
> >
> > sd
>
> I live in minneapolis and that makes it hard to find non-northwest flights out
> of town that are cheap. Myy dad was a pilot for NWA and one day i shamefully
> admitted I hated flying Northwest for a million reasons. He lit up, he totally
> agreed and if it weren't for the cheap flights he got, he wouldn't fly NWA
> either!

Agreed. I used to work there, too (not as a pilot, though I _was_
licensed as a flight attendant for a year -- long story). It amazes
me that management thinks it can be "the airline of choice" for
fliers at the same time it's continually kicking their employees in
the butt. Flying on other airlines was an absolute revelation. I
don't want to see NWA disappear, but I have to say they're nothing
to be proud of anymore.

sd