What airport is this? It looks rather new, and empty, for that matter.

That’s good news. I look forward to flying USAirways when I go to St. Maarten’s in August.

America West technically is not a low-cost operator. I consider a low-cost operator to be one where you’re never going to pay more than a fixed amount, for any fare. Obviously if you get a ticket far enough in advance, you’re going to pay considerably less. For instance, on Southwest, no fare is ever more than $199 one way; even if you walk up the day of departure. Plus there’s no Saturday night stay requirement and you can purchase one way tickets and not pay an arm and a leg. America West is just like the other majors in their ticketing policies, they just happen to be less expensive in most of their markets. You pay for what you get. Their fleet consists of A319/320, 737-200/300, 757-200’s, plus their express affiliate which operates CRJ’s and Dash 8’s, I believe. It caters very well to their route structure with them flying cross country from PHX and LAS to JFK and BOS, as well as down south to several Mexico destinations. I don’t think a fleet entirely of 737’s, per se, would be ideal for serving all these different markets, when a 757 is clearly preferable on 5 hour segments.

P.S. I’m headed to St. Maartens in August. I’m going to be planted on Maho beach for an entire week catching some rays, babes in bikinis, and plenty of jet fumes. I can’t wait!!

Not go where? I pointed out the obvious, plain and simple. Last time I checked, Keypublishing is U.K. based, and about 90% (kind estimate) of the people in here are European. And by my being American, I went to the “nationalistic rut” card? Uh, NO. Again, just pointing out the obvious. For the record, my ethnicity is European, as is indicated by my handle. Therefore, I have a Euro-American point of view. I would never come in here and bash “Euro’s,” considering both my parents and all my aunts and uncles were born in Europe. Of course, if I react to a general statement made towards Americans, I’m going to come across as controversial. Still waiting for where BBC and Skynews are based.

P.S. So good to be back after a long layoff!!!

I’m sure you’re referring to the Nigga’s With Attitudes, Mongu. They’re pretty much ancient history nowadays, so feel free to use the acronym NWA, freely. By the way, I really like this new color scheme. That is a gray paint job and not bare metal, right?

Of course, EGNM, after all, everything is blown out of proportion across the pond in the U.S. Just like when a couple of 767’s plowed into the sides of the twin towers, we blew that out of proportion too, right? Look, contrary to popular believe we don’t “blow everything out of proportion” or “use increased praphenelia” or whatever it is you want to call it. You just hear what your media wants you to, just like we hear what our media wants us to. It’s called propaganda. So let me reiterate, this was not a terrorist act, nor was it EVER REFERRED TO as such in our highly blown out of proportion media.

All these are guesses. I did no research, and thought I’d give it a go.

1) Brazil
2) Oneworld
3) ATL Hartsfield
4) 10?
5) They are the same age.
6) i) 25th
ii) Phillipines
7) i) Singapore
iii) Malaysian
8) 767
9) ii) 1988
iii) 6
iv) 46
v) 2
10) 777

I’m sure Air St. Maarten’s will expand the number of destinations, given time. However, if you only have 1 aircraft, there’s only so much you can do. The fact that they started with an existing route operated by another carrier is good, because there’s already a market for it. They’ll compete with KLM on the AMS route, and I’m sure they’ll beat KLM’s price to attract more customers. As far as them servicing Pittsburg? USAirways does PHL-SXM so maybe they are quasi-competing on that run.