> > Mou"What? No review of airplane food?"sie
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> Oh, sorry! Well, as usual, it sucked. I only got one real meal, on the flight from Denver to Chicago, and it was Chicken in some mystery sauce with greenbeans and rice. A stick of bread on the side, a salad, and a two pack of oreo cookies for desert rounded out the meal. Typical airline food, everything basically tasted the same as everything else.
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Ah. You should fly Midwest Express airlines. Wide leather seats with leg room, and wonderful meals. The wife and I took it out to Illinois this past Christmas week -- flew out of Newark, change in Milwaukee, then down to Moline.

The Milwaukee/Newark leg was incredible. Imagine the business class section of a normal airline filling the entire passenger section. For breakfast, we had a choice of a fresh fruit salad, cereal, and a muffin - or - a swiss cheese and mushroom omlette (and muffin) -- all served on real plates with real cutlery. Complementary champagne. The way back was a dinner flight. Marinated chicken breast with (raspberry ?) chutney, some fantastic veggies, and a creamy potato and onion near-potato-salad thing. And complementary wine. And freshly-baked chocolate chip cookies. And and and...

It was a better meal than some restaurants I've been to.

Back to the almost dying landing near Lake Michigan, that nearly happened to us on the commutter plane on the way back. "There's going to be a little turbulance upon our arrival," the pilot announced. I'd hate to see what he thought a lot of turbulance would be.

In those small planes (seated 19 passengers), you could lean into the aisle and look through the cockpit window. On our approach, the ground kept moving back and up and over and then tilted to the left and down to spin to the right and down then up and back over and... Well, let's just say that there was one point where a sudden gust of wind hit us and I would've sworn the plane was going to flip over, right wing over left about sixty feet off the ground.

Even so, I would fly with these pilots again. To be able to land a small plane in such high winds (and not have our luggage crushed in the back compartment) takes a great deal of skill.

-Faux "shaken, not stirred" Pas