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Midwest Death Watch: This Is What a Struggling Airline Looks Like
This Friday-night flight to Milwaukee boasted just five passengers, leaving plenty of leg room and plenty of cookies, but also a new wealth of worries for the struggling Wisconsin carrier.
When we asked a gate attendant why there were so few people waiting in the terminal to depart, she said, "Well, because it's so late." This was at 8:30 pm, though, admittedly, right around last call at the airport bar.
Our flight wasn't one of the newly outsourced routes officially taken over Wednesday by Republic Airlines, and potential Midwest passengers may well be scared by the subcontractor. Republic is more like an octopus of regional operations, a former subsidiary of Frontier which currently flies for Midwest as Midwest Connect (to New York-LaGuardia, Denver and Washington-Reagan among others) and for US Airways as US Airways Express. On the bright side, they're hiring!
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· First-Person Flight Reviews: Passenger Says Midwest Service Not Suffering Yet [Jaunted]
· Midwest Job Outsourcing Starts October 1 [WTMJ]
· Airline Open Thread: Is Midwest Still Worth Paying A Premium For? [Jaunted]
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Most Missed in Milwaukee
It's pretty good to be a Milwaukeean right now. The Brewers are in the midst of their best season since 1987 with 25W, 11L, and Wisconsin's former governor is running for President (even if he is crashing and burning). And now that the news is out that a local TV anchor is dating former "American Idol" champion Taylor Hicks, all the Brews of Brewville will be trying to spot him at Summerfest, the yearly music festival which runs for eleven days at the end of June. Will Taylor lean toward "Grey's Anatomy" favorites The Fray, local boys the Violent Femmes or apparently-still-together '80s hitmakers Arrested Development? Or maybe he'll be partying at one of these places:
