>If it is that bad front of the house I don't trust their maintenance >crews. No problem, they locked out the mechanics union and hired replacements quite a while ago. While I think there is some chance that you would show up for a Northwest flight and find that the airline had suddenly gone out of business, I'm not worried about planes falling out of the air. I do think there is considerable merit in identifying a set of venues that are known to do a good job and using them whenever a meeting is scheduled for their part of the world. Minneapolis is roughly in the middle of the populated part of North America, the hotel knows us, why not go back there? R's, John >Direct flight is not a must for me. There are plenty of connections via Chicago, Toronto, and New York that don't use Northwest. If you're coming from the west you have fewer options but there are some reasonable connections via Denver and Phoenix. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf