Best Airline Blog of 2008!

Flight Global has announced their 2008 Webbie Awards, including the BEST BLOG OF 2008! Whoo! Whoo! High Five! Wait. What? Fare Market Value wasn't even nominated?

Cue Phil Collins:
"...There must be some misunderstanding,
There must be some kind of mistake..."

Well, there's always next year. They'll probabaly sweeten the prize money by then, too. In the meantime, congratulations to the winner, http://www.jetwhine.com/ and finalists, crankyflier.com and http://www.blogsouthwest.com/. Fine blogs, every one. Keep up the great work!

We're Back - And We Remember

We've been pretty silent the last few months - Combination of our day job really hitting us hard, and the fact that it was a great summer weather in Chicago. If you're from Chicago - you know you have to really maximize the summers in order to slog it through the 8 months of crappy winter hits.

However, FMV had a really interesting conversation the other day that we thought we should share.

We were flying on Weds (Sept. 10th) and sat next to a older couple who kindly asked "do you fly often?" We said "all the time - what about you?". She responded - "Well, this is our first flight since 9-11 since we were pretty scared about air travel, but they seem to have it pretty under control now.."

It took us a few minutes for that to sink in - and kind of amazing that it took SEVEN YEARS before this couple decided that they should get moving again. Those of us in the airline business prolly forget about things like that.

We actually flew on 9-18, the next week after the attacks - and we can still remember how tense it was. It's a world different now, but we guess it shouldn't be taken for granted. We remember and we guess it's time for us to get moving as well.

We're back to doing posts, and hopefully some interesting stuff will hit so we don't have to work too hard during halftimes of Bears wins !!

OK OK - This Time We're Serious !!

OK - It's been two MONTHS since we've posted. We know we've been slacking. We feel bad about abandoning our loyal readers. Trust us - it wasn't you, it was us.

To tell you the truth - we just kinda got into a lazy rut with the onslaught of summer. The combination of travel, work, and vacations just got the better of us.

But we're over it now - and we've rededicated ourselves and from here on out - It's on (like Donkey Kong)!