Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners Path: news From: Karl Swartz Subject: Thanksgiving Message-ID: Approved: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM X-Original-Message-Id: Sender: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Date: Wed, 25 Nov 92 3:14:35 PST Tomorrow (er, it's late, better make that today) is the day before Thanksgiving in the United States, traditionally the busiest air travel day of the year. My home-town airport (perhaps you've heard of it -- Chicago's O'Hare International, namesake of the machine I'm posting this on) usually sets a new passenger volume record every year on this day, though this year may be an exception as the half-price fare war led to several record-shattering days this past summer. (For those of you who may be unfamiliar with this custom, it entails family and friends gathering together on the Thursday before the last Friday in November to consume a turkey and stuffing, yams, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, and all sorts of other goodies, followed by three days to sit back, watch football, and digest all that food!) In any case, I'll be doing my part to support the travel industry this holiday, though not at O'Hare and not by air. This means I'll be away from the keyboard until Monday, and airliners posts likely won't go out until then. (I may check in once or twice before then but no promises.) To those of you in the US or celebrating this US holiday, may this be a happy and *safe* holiday for you. To the rest, well, you'll be saved the inevitable weeks of leftover turkey sandwiches. ;-) -- Karl Swartz |INet kls@ditka.chicago.com 1-415/854-3409 |UUCP uunet!decwrl!ditka!kls |Snail 2144 Sand Hill Rd., Menlo Park CA 94025, USA Send sci.aeronautics.airliners submissions to airliners@chicago.com