me wrote:
> 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

I love flying United, but theyre so expensive. Occasionally I can Priceline a
great deal when I head t the east coast.

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