Originally Posted by
flythemuppets
the best is talking to someone and explaining that you work for northwest because no one understands mesaba. Then everyone tells you their "saab" story about how they had this horrible trip on red twin prop airplane followed by: so what do you fly?
Yeah sometimes I just say Northwest Airlink, or a subsidiary of Northwest. The worst is when when people confuse Mesaba with Mesa. I go waaay out of my way to correct them. But back to the original point...who comes up with names like Mesaba and Chautauqua?