BOOO! It’s a big, scary Midwestern city.

I’m interested after looking. It’s unique. You have to move UPS out of the ramp somewhere else.

It took 33 years, but I finally missed a flight, which left early.

Absolutely my fault.

Drove all the way to Chicago, crafting an email in my head to provide feedback/help, and then sat outside of Gary's renovated terminal, seeing potential there.

Funny how things work out.

JetBlue Secures $500M Aircraft-Backed Financing to Support Turnaround JetBlue obtains $500M aircraft-backed debt financing with option for $250M more, aiding its JetForward turnaround strategy targeting up to $950M EBIT by 2027.

Holy FUCK airpronews.com/2026/04/20/j...

We are currently in the hard times cycle, where it's time for the strong ideas & players to rise up and grab on to the Wartime CEO mentality to survive, or start something new.

An additional quote to wrap up my thoughts on a Monday morning:

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” - G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain

However - One of the ironic things with my statement? Airlines in the 1990s operated in a manner that should be looked at heavily, even though some of the operating environment is outdated - the mentality to win at all costs within the rules was there, like a Wartime CEO.

The problem is that this industry is still looking inward for poor answers, repeating mistakes, relying on mediocre service, and using tactics built for a world that has passed it by, and not looking outward to other industries such as the tech industry, and other regulated ones.

This thinking is why it's become stagnant with its thinking, bloated with its architecture, and well... now we have airlines struggling financially, the Peacetime CEO mentality is weak.

While I understand we work in a highly regulated industry where safety is #1 , but when you read this concept, you begin to realize that the airline industry operates in Peacetime CEO mode most of the time these days.

feel like it's fitting to share this post with the recent developments with Spirit Airlines facing liquidation, and now potentially jetBlue.

a16z.com/peacetime-ceo-…

This a16z's now 15 year essay about The Peacetime CEO vs Wartime CEO.

That was the one I think

JFC, the NWS is right in the first circle, and a tornado was spotted over the GRR airport. 🌪️

How do you create a SOP/ simulate/predict this?

I love this challenge but this is a 1 in a million chance of this happening, and it happened tonight.

Stay safe y’all.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Tornado watch that covers the Lake 👀

Something interesting to pack into our aviation software.

Do it. DO IT.

Just want to see someone use Claude Code on airline IT.

But in a more serious note, this would be just so catastrophic

Why not just make the seats wider (IE install slim line recliners) and sell the back row at a premium?

I’m also curious how the door would get approved.

What were your thoughts? The pictures I’ve seen aren’t enough for me to judge

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What a wild timeline we live in. Bold strategy, let’s see how it plays out for them.

Especially when you use Claude Code to combine PSS systems.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Exactly my concern with them. My hunch is they use the Lite version. Air Tahiti uses the Prime one which is much more premium and the one we would go for because we are going to be using Porter’s OG seating config of 70Y (34”).

Very much interested in comfort with our play. I’m a big guy haha.

I keep looking at the 2V they have. Jazz has them in their Q400s, I might have to go try one out.

My concern with these is less legroom (we are fine there), its the comfort, I feel like I’m going to have to use Western MI’s furniture knowledge to push for comfort tweaks for my back and 🍑

All flights are up in the air. Goes back to a convo someone had with me recently where they said “You can have Great Lakes aviation and it’s horrendous weather”

Yeah, I like a challenge.

Only way you resolve this is a very large and expensive pump that sits on a semi trailer and a snow melter. Which they don’t have. Permanent fix? Expensive drainage project.

Y’all wanna see some crazy shit?

This is Pellston Regional Airport right now (PLN), the intersection of both runways. A combo of melting snow and rain caused this. Yesterday, they had their plows (pictured) out to try to clear the water.

Somehow, I got into a ramp agent Facebook group, and let me tell you

After seeing some of Delta's finest agents load human remains into a narrow body and then throw bags onto it, I'm learning a lot about how I want our cargo/baggage processes dialed in.

Kudos to people calling that shit out too

Depends. One of those shots shows the dual door usage, and I’d like to utilize ramps to their advantage.

The issue is the weather. I’m fine with us using bridges.

My big problem is the gate checked bag issue. I plan on a radical idea to basically do the opposite of the other airlines. Maybe.

Parting photo at Pasco. Ironically on the way out? I used a jetbridge. Huh.

No, our seats won't look like this. Even though the comfort was pretty good. The new slimlines on offer are not as good imo. Here is a Lufthansa MD-11 and what I believe to be the Hanford Nuclear site?

Who doesn't love ramp boarding. TBH, I'd love to do it out here but the winter is the issue. And yes, I had to catch that Norwegian 787. Those have a special place in my heart as I worked to get them to fly to Chicago in a past life. This 787-9 moved on to LATAM Chile.

Likelihood of acquiring these ones? Maybe. Many have passed on to other parts of the world or been scrapped. A few are stored. One is sitting at the end of the world (South America) with extreme damage after a tail strike.

Enjoy some pictures.

What a wild picture to come up tonight. One of my few (sadly) flights on a Q400 so far. This one was by accident after a misconnect on Delta on GRR-DTW-SEA-PSC. First Q400 (the Huskies one) went Tech (LOL), so they moved us to the second one.