Better not call the RJ a "Commuter aircraft"...LOL. How was the view out the windows?...Before you had to bend down and get a crick on your neck to see outside (mostly while on the ground). I see on the 700 they raised them up a little...how was it? Walter DCA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis W Zeuch" <DZTOPS@aol.com> To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 23:18 Subject: Trip Tucson to Portland Oregon > Spent a week in Portland and what a great city. One place in america that > seems to be doing things right. No sales tax, free busses and rail within the > downtown etc etc. > > Anyway flew Horizon (Alaska airlines small plane/low cost substitute) non > stop both ways on brnd new RJ700? (77 seat ) Kinda small for the 2 hour and > 50 min flights but really impressed with Horizon-friendly F/A's who talk and > joke around and free beer and wines and silly snacks (crakerjack and apples) > Not as cramped as I thought but still wonder--kinda a long trip. Isn't this > small commuter acft thing getting out of hand? Soon they will fly coast to > coast with them fur shur. > > Any bets when someone will try to go California to Hawaii with one of them? > Or JFK to London maybe? Dont laugh--somewhere, some corporate exec is really > trying like hell to pull this off I bet> > Dennis >