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Joyce DeWitt. From 3's Company. She was in town for a play or something. Great looking lady, I gotta tell you.

....Come and knock on our door, we've been waitin' for you
Where the kisses are hers and hers and his, three's company too...."

I loved that show growing up....Don Knotts was awesome!!!

I was telling msu64 that we saw Jackie Sherrill flying us the other day!!!

That's the one...Joyce is still in good form. Looking a tad old (i.e. my age) but no worries, mate.

Jacque Cheryl....hope you 'lost' his reservation!! Ha. I actually used to work with his nephew Alan, who kicked for him at Pitt, late 70s. He was in dental school at UM Med Center and worked with me at a parttime job. Was a good guy. His dad and JS grew up in Moss Point, I think I recall. They were Oklahomans by birth if memory serves.

But JS...I can't handle that guy...

LR, I mentioned you by name today to one of our fuelers (ebonically pronounced: "froolers" here in Jtown :rolleyes: ), and he knows you. He used to work with you at AA, his name is Wayne. I've known the guy for a year and a half and couldn't tell you his last name. He's just Wayne! Anyway, he's an older gentleman, very nice old guy, soft-spoken and spoke well of you. Does that name ring a bell? If not, I will try to produce a last name for you tomorrow (or today, depending on how you're looking at it) via a PM.

10MAN Wrote:LR, I mentioned you by name today to one of our fuelers (ebonically pronounced: "froolers" here in Jtown :rolleyes: ), and he knows you. He used to work with you at AA, his name is Wayne. I've known the guy for a year and a half and couldn't tell you his last name. He's just Wayne! Anyway, he's an older gentleman, very nice old guy, soft-spoken and spoke well of you. Does that name ring a bell? If not, I will try to produce a last name for you tomorrow (or today, depending on how you're looking at it) via a PM.

Wayne Freaking Bridges!! Give him my best regards...great guy, as you said. A couple of other guys I knew may well be working as froolers too: Billy Carpenter and Mauricio Martinez...

LRRebel Wrote:Wayne Freaking Bridges!! Give him my best regards...great guy, as you said. A couple of other guys I knew may well be working as froolers too: Billy Carpenter and Mauricio Martinez...

Aww yes, Billy is a crazy SOB, gambling and chasing all the women he can find, but his standards let's just say, are a bit sub-par! And Mauricio is my bud, but we give him constant hell! He just got back the other day from a month-long vacation back home in El Salvador. Everytime we help him improve his English, he takes a trip back home and comes back and has lost it all. Good guy, though. I'll them them you said Hi!

I thought JAN had one flight to Mexico, thus giving it the name "Jackson International Airport". However, looking at http://www.jmaa.com, that flight isn't there.

Is it federal funding that determines what airports can be deemed as "International"? TUL doesn't fly anything out of the US either, and theirs is International too.

Reason I asked is after looking at the site, JAN is very similar to what Fayetteville's (XNA) is now sizewise... you have Southwest and we don't yet, you have Northwest and Delta non-commuter planes to our Northwest Express and Delta Connection... and you fly to ORL, BWI, and Chi-Midway and Hou-Hobby, which we don't. XNA in turn has American non-commuters, while JAN only has American Eagle (according to its site), and XNA flies to O'Hare, New York- LGA, Newark, St. Louis, Kansas City, and LAX, (Minneapolis starts in Oct.) where JAN doesn't. So I feel the airports are very similar in size, yet Jackson's is International, and XNA is dubbed "Regional"...which, given flights to the east and west coast, kinda sounds silly in my opinion.

10MAN, you have any idea on this? I'm guessing that it's federal funding, but I don't know.

WPS

that's great! Also Marshal Yelverton may also work with them! And Butch Thrasher is their supervisor, I think anyway. I miss working with all those wild men.

You're right, BC is one wild mofo. His brother Randy works for my old GM over at the freight bay. I went to see them after I visited you that day.

CTH, I'm not sure on that. I'm still fairly new to that airport, myself. Maybe LRRebel will know but if not, I will find out for you later on today and post it here. I think you may be right, though, but I will double-check.

LR, I don't know Marshall, but Butch is still their Sup, although I've NEVER met him. He is like a mystery man, someone I've only heard about, but never seen.

I just found out that if an airport has even a connection to outside the US, that they can call themselves, plus JAN is the biggest airport in the state, so they have the right to say "International". And DL has plenty of flights to ATL, connecting to Mexico, therefore the name "International". Also, any airport that has a "Customs" department can call themselves "Int'l", and JAN does have customs. The customs reason is the biggest reason, but I'm sure there are others. Hope that helps.

CTH and 10:

The way I've always understood it - It's pretty much up to the city to name it what they want to. Lots of 'ports use Intl in their name but have no transborder flights. LIT uses National for some reason. When I first went to work at JAN it was 'Municipal' airport! 10, some of the signage around there may still show that?

I once thought that maybe 'Intl' meant that the airport in question had connecting flights to foreign countries.

If/ when you meet Butch, 10, tell him 'Mose' said hi....

calling_the_hogs Wrote:I thought JAN had one flight to Mexico, thus giving it the name "Jackson International Airport". However, looking at http://www.jmaa.com, that flight isn't there.

Is it federal funding that determines what airports can be deemed as "International"? TUL doesn't fly anything out of the US either, and theirs is International too.

Reason I asked is after looking at the site, JAN is very similar to what Fayetteville's (XNA) is now sizewise... you have Southwest and we don't yet, you have Northwest and Delta non-commuter planes to our Northwest Express and Delta Connection... and you fly to ORL, BWI, and Chi-Midway and Hou-Hobby, which we don't. XNA in turn has American non-commuters, while JAN only has American Eagle (according to its site), and XNA flies to O'Hare, New York- LGA, Newark, St. Louis, Kansas City, and LAX, (Minneapolis starts in Oct.) where JAN doesn't. So I feel the airports are very similar in size, yet Jackson's is International, and XNA is dubbed "Regional"...which, given flights to the east and west coast, kinda sounds silly in my opinion.

10MAN, you have any idea on this? I'm guessing that it's federal funding, but I don't know.

WPS

CTH, I've heard that it's a runway size technicality giving it the name Jackson International Airport. Basically, since the runways are long enough for a 747 to land and take off, it's classified as international. I had heard the same thing about one international flight per week, but I'm not sure. For all we know, it could be a FedEx flight.

WR

10MAN Wrote:I just found out that if an airport has even a connection to outside the US, that they can call themselves, plus JAN is the biggest airport in the state, so they have the right to say "International". And DL has plenty of flights to ATL, connecting to Mexico, therefore the name "International". Also, any airport that has a "Customs" department can call themselves "Int'l", and JAN does have customs. The customs reason is the biggest reason, but I'm sure there are others. Hope that helps.

That's right about JAN, 10. When they put that customs office in the freight bay, as part of a 'free trade zone' program, JAN started using the Int'l moniker.

I lived in TUL as a kid, when they upgraded from Muni to Intl. Don't recall the reason, but seem to think it was because AA started serving MEX and YYZ, which you could connect to from TUL, via ORD or DAL (!)...

LR, there are still signs saying "Municipal" around here. And I will tell Butch hi for you......IF I ever meet him. :rolleyes:

LR, Mauricio and Wayne both told me to tell you "Hi". Just passing that along. They asked how you were, too. :wave:

10MAN Wrote:LR, Mauricio and Wayne both told me to tell you "Hi". Just passing that along. They asked how you were, too. :wave:

That's super, 10....Thanks a million for that! Those are 2 good guys. We had a great time working together.

Thanks 10MAN...it must certainly be the customs. XNA's runway is more than long enough for a 747..it's landed Air Force One twice. They're building a second runway just as long b/c of air traffic concerns. I guess TUL must have customs too..just never noticed.

WPS

Airports like those have a Customs presence, due to the fact that cargo shipments come in, and must be cleared. Not all cargo is cleared (or held in-bond) at a gateway city like NYC, MIA. I imagine with WalMart there, there is a heavy flow of imported cargo.

We were talking the other day about how NW Ark is fast becoming the economic hub of the state. LR is not helping their own standing much, with our hapless city fathers and politicians, who have no longrange vision planning skills at all. And if you saw what we had for a US Congressman....They'll eventually fade away here, and exist as not much more than the seat of state government. Oh wait, we have the Heifer Project and the Clinton Library. Slap my face!

10MAN Wrote:....Come and knock on our door, we've been waitin' for you
Where the kisses are hers and hers and his, three's company too...."

I loved that show growing up....Don Knotts was awesome!!!

I was telling msu64 that we saw Jackie Sherrill flying us the other day!!!

This is one I'll have to disagree with. I hated Don Knott's character on Three's Company. Being a fruity landload or whatever he was so beneath his "usual" character. I did always think it would have been great to have two female roommates. :D

10-man, couldn't they throw him off the plane...without a parachute? No, let's keep him. Maybe he will go 1-11 this year.

REBstill Wrote:10-man, couldn't they throw him off the plane...without a parachute? No, let's keep him. Maybe he will go 1-11 this year.

Well, I think they will do much better than 1-11, Still. But if they do go 1-11, I think you know who they'd prefer that "1" be? :eek: Let's hope they win a bunch more than 1, but not on T-Giving.