Originally Posted by
FmrFreightDog
Call me crazy, but I miss Minot. Good food at the hotel, and the van driver would always make a beer run for you if you got in after the hotel bar closed down. Cosmic bowling next door was always worth the trip. Plus, where else in the country will the tower controllers play you a song about their town over the radio upon request??
Nostalgia aside, anyone want to tell me why we no longer run DC-9s into Minot? I have done that 0440 departure many times with a butt in every*seat (including the jumpseat). Makes no sense to me.........
So much for the much talked about but rarely seen pulldown of RJ flying....
Ok. You're Crazy.
I used to wonder about how we managed to fill every seat in a DC-9 at 0440 too. I just figured that it was part of a mass exodus out of the frozen plains of ND. But that wasn't the case. We flew full
back to Minot as well. Go figure.
Look at the upside. If you really want to embrace the feeling of numb extremities and frozen nostril hairs, all hope is not lost. I spied a few 32 hour Grand Forks layovers on the pairings list for next month!
