Dennis, I remember flying Agony on Convairs. At Nationl Airport, they listed my flights as "jet-powered" -- which they were: they were turbo-props. You got to bounce a bit in those planes, but my memory is they made very smooth landings. But United buy US Airways? What were the two boards thinking? john On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Dennis W Zeuch wrote: > In a message dated 8/28/02 6:04:28 PM !!!First Boot!!!, mcb@postmodern.com > writes: > > << US is just digging > themselves into a deeper hole. I really wish UA had bought them and > killed them off cleanly instead of watching them disintegrate. >> > > Youre right, they must mean that drinks are for sale. I still remember most > of my travel on ALegheny Airlines around Penn and Ohio all 30 min flights and > all one class service ( R - for rotten) on BAC 111's. Miserable little > carrier and I never could quite believe that they managed to fly all the way > to Europe without getting lost or something. > dennis > -- John F. Kurtzke, C.S.C. Department of Mathematics 278 Buckley Center University of Portland Portland, OR 97203 503-943-7377 kurtzke@up.edu