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Thursday, January 17, 2008

Plattsburgh Internatinal Airport

Plattsburgh International Airport

I found all this off of wikipedia.com. It makes you wonder if any of are elected officials do any type of rersearch at all about the airlines they bring into plattsburgh.

Cape Air Airlines

Grounding of entire fleet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Air
On June 12, 2007 Cape Air CEO Daniel Wolf announced the grounding of all of Cape Air's 49 Cessna 402 aircraft nationwide, after three in flight engine failures. The problem was blamed on premature wear on the crankshaft All 402 services were canceled for two days while the counterweights were inspected and replaced if necessary. Normal service resumed about four days after the initial fleet grounding.


Big Lie I mean Big Sky Airlines
The airline was established in 1978 and started operations on September 15, 1978. It started to take over Aspen Mountain Air's Essential Air Service routes in October 1998, following Aspen's bankruptcy. Transfer of services was completed in December 1998.

In late 2002, Big Sky Airlines offered service between Idaho Falls, Idaho and Denver, Colorado but canceled it three months afterward, declaring it unprofitable.[3]

In early 2005, Big Sky announced a few changes to its service, planning the termination of service to North Dakota, and replacing its Metro fleet with Beechcraft 1900Ds which will be leased from Mesa Air Group subsidiary Air Midwest.


Previous Big Sky In July 2006, Big Sky announced that the airline would discontinue service to Great Falls, Montana; Kalispell, Montana; and Spokane, Washington. The airline also announced that one of their Beech 1900D's would be leased to an airline in Florida.

On September 1, 2006, Big Sky discontinued service to Moses Lake, Washington.

Big Sky operated as a Delta Connection carrier from Boston Logan International Airport. Big Sky provides the service using Beechcraft 1900D aircraft. The service ended on January 7, 2008. On December 20, 2007, Big Sky announced that it would more than likely cease operations within 60-90 days. This was due to the loss of the Delta contract, unusually bad weather, disappointing revenue and record-high fuel prices.

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Moose Mitts




15F Below Zero + Moose Mitts = Warm Hands. you can find these at trails edge.com

Stop buying gloves/lobster claws and buy a pair of Moose Mitts/Pogies I never though it would be possible to have warm hands in these temps. Yes they are bit bulky but not overly large. Once you get use to them you don’t even notice them. I just used a thin pair of wind stopper fall riding gloves inside the mitts. Eleven miles later my digits were toasty.

I highly recommend them to anyone who rides in brutal temps. My rating 5 stars.