MCI works good for me as I live in St. Louis.

Midwest requires special training for flight attendants to learn how to bake cookies. I hope that all flight attendants take the time to ask if we need anything on the longer legs as it always is nice to fly with someone who takes care of us. Certainly don't get too much of that in today's society. I actually had a America West (USAir) flight attendant NOT give me ONE extra bag of pretzels!!! She told me I had to buy them from the other flight attendant who was selling them! And yes, I was in uniform.

From the sounds of it, they are in fact gearing up for a quick transfer of people from MKE to MCI. It may or may not be better schedules, we'll just have to wait and see. ATL is a small base, but because they are flying longer legs they average 6 hrs or credit per duty day which is best in the company. They did in August anyways (I think).

It is true that upgrades have stopped, but according to our manager of ground training that is ONLY because we are so short on FO's. Upgrades are scheduled to resume in January and I assume hiring will continue as it has been throughout the next few months. Didn't someone say that we don't hire much in the fourth quarter usually anyways???

Slappy, you going to sell out and vote for ALPA or what??? In regards to his thoughts on growth in 2008, he also said we were getting a lot of Delta flying that has since gone to Mesa, Pinnacle and Comair. Slappy is here just for our amusement and to keep us SkyWest guys drinking to Koolaid! Oh Yeah!