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Nice blog, Jill. I assume the 10 year old was flying as a UM. Of course I am going to be judgemental here, but it would be nice if the parents could live in the same town as the child so the child could have frequent access to both parents. It is self-centered for a parent to move so far away from his/her child and make that child fly in order to see one parent. Parenting is not a priority with one of these parents. There are more UMs today than there were in the 80s when I first started working in the airline business! Rachel ... View more

I worked at Horizon Air a few years ago at PDX. I remembered reading about the blended winglets WN was having outfitted on its 737s. I told a few coworkers about the winglets and they started laughing. I don't know what they imagined a winglet was but I got the impression they did not believe me. The day a WN 737 landed in PDX with the new blended winglets, I got the last laugh. ... View more