Ok, thanks. I'm at home and it's rainy and I'm too lazy to go out and actually get a paper. I'm also apparently too lazy to look it up online. :)

I'm jealous, I wish I was at a hotel. Even bad continental breakfasts are better than having to provide breakfast for yourself.

Get a girlfriend...mine cooks me Eggs and other scrumptious breakfast delicacies LoL :D

Haha. I always tell people I need a wife because I want someone to cook for me and do my dishes. The joke is that I'm a girl, myself, and I'm not really interested in my own gender. I guess I just need a chef and a maid. :D

I wonder where I could find a pilot to marry me and support me? All pilots are rich, right?

I know of several EAS cities within 2 hours of major airports where local entrepreneurs start bus shuttle services which offer more departures/arrivals, at-your-door pickup, more reliability, half the cost, and roughly equal time enroute...since many many Air Midwest flights arrive at terminals outside the security/terminal area of Southwest and any non-USAir/Midwest Airlines majors...that one additional security and bag pickup (assuming you're not codesharing on USAirways or Midwest) at many airports kills any time savings over a direct bus schedule for many EAS cities. Thus many EAS cities have extremely low loads. It's almost unfair that the bus service has a better product and higher demand, yet the mismanaged company (Air Midwest) with little demand and in many cases little purpose gets a gov't subsidy.

I understand routes like Ft. Leonard Wood, MO and other cities with prison, military, and other important installations requiring air access--because they are usually more remote places that actually have a need for scheduled air service.

An interesting note for the future of EAS, though--it will probably become an even more obsolete option once we have 4-6 seat VLJs hopping around all over the country.

And as for the "commerce" argument...anyone significant investor, developer, or economic player who needs to get into a town to do business probably already has a charter or a privately owned aircraft.

I'm told that besides this little issue with the SEC, and the two well known lawsuits in Hawaii, Mesa also has a big debt bill coming due soon.

I see a total shutdown, aka PanAm, et al.

"I see dead people, I mean airlines."

http://www.mnight.com/images/movies/...colm&cole1.jpg

::Insert foot in mouth now:: LoL :o

My guess is its the money funneled into all the offshore "holding companies" that JO and his cronies are all managing partners in.

No worries. It only would have been offensive if we were talking face to face and you thought I was a dude. :)

Hmm...you know, I'm a fantastic cook - Just thought you might be interested, since you're hungry and all LoL ;)