Subject: Air Transportation

• The Friendly Skies

  June 17, 1999

• United: When Turkeys Fly

  November 28, 2006

• Shmuck of the Week

  June 14, 2008

• Dear United Airlines: It's Over!

  June 25, 2008

• Giant Rocky Mountain News Typo Begs the Question: "Y"?

  June 20, 2008

• Traveling Turns South by Southwest

  July 17, 2008

• Frontier gives thanks for loan, loyalty

  August 13, 2008

• Shmuck Redux: Christina Szele's bumpy ride

  September 22, 2008

• Szele just can't straighten up and fly right

  September 26, 2008

• Cleanliness Is Next to Godliness

  Muslim cab drivers can finally get their feet wet at DIA.

  March 30, 2000

• Is Chile Rojo ready to take off?

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  December 8, 2008

• Continental keeps crash passengers away from the booze

  Continental Airlines probably should have known better. After all, the airlines have long understood that pacification of terrified passengers in a time of crisis keeps a bad situation from getting worse. The purpose behind those oxygen masks that drop from the ceiling of the plane? Oxygen gets you high, making potential crash victims, in the words of Fight Club 's Tyler Durden, "calm as Hindu cows." So why on earth did Continental spirit the shaken passengers of Flight (term used loosely) 14

  December 23, 2008

• Wake-Up Call: Welcome to Denver. Ignore the wreck on your right

  Flying back into Denver Sunday, I looked for the wreckage of the Continental Airlines flight that had veered off a runway, careened down a hill and landed in a ravine, where it caught fire. That was back on December 20 -- and the plane is still there, clearly visible to passengers as some flights come in for landing. Although some might consider the wreckage a good advertisement for DIA's efficient emergency response, since no one died in the incident (although 38 were injuried), that hardly b

  December 30, 2008

• Letters to the Editor

  August 17, 2000

• Drunk of the Week

  July 8, 2004

• Reel Life at Thirteen

  February 5, 2009

• Mange Rovers

  The Colorado Springs Airport hopes to keep coyotes off the runways.

  March 15, 2001

• I Fathered a Terror Suspect

  Losing the name game at our country's airports.

  July 15, 2004

• Pop Quiz

  Heaven and Helluloid
  February 26, 2004

  February 26, 2004

• Pop Quiz

  Fly Our Fiendly Skies

  January 22, 2004

  January 22, 2004

• Carry On!

  What my bag did on its summer vacation.

  June 12, 2003

• Busted!

  When underwires are outlawed, only outlaws will give uplift.

  October 11, 2001

• What's Fare Is Fair

  Denver and United Airlines are in a dogfight over who gets the loot.

  April 22, 1999

• Soar Loser?

  Western Pacific's losses mount as boss man Ed Beauvais scrambles with new plans.

  October 17, 1996

• Off Limits

  September 26, 1996

• Continental Drift

  As prospects dim, Denver aviation officials still chase after an air link to Britain.

  September 19, 1996

• Speak No Evil

  Why a federal whistleblower was taken off the case at DIA.

  June 20, 1996

• Off Limits

  May 30, 1996

• As the Carousel Turns

  Is a new contract at DIA the first step toward ripping out the automated baggage system?

  May 2, 1996

• Flights of Fancy

  Denver pays a consultant big money to get overseas flights for DIA--and goes nowhere.

  April 18, 1996

• Off Limits

  April 11, 1996

• THE SNIT HITS THE FAN

  WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THOSE CALLS BY PAT SCHROEDER FOR INVESTIGATIONS? NOT A WHOLE LOT.

  January 3, 1996

• BUFFALO BILLS

  ANOTHER FRIEND OF THE MAYOR'S JOINS THE PATRONAGE HERD AT DIA.

  December 13, 1995

• SOUTHWESTERN FLYER

  THE CITY CLEARS THE TARMAC FOR A TEXAS-SIZED TAXPAYER SUBSIDY AT DIA.

  November 22, 1995

• LETTERS

  November 15, 1995

• I'M ED! FLY ME!

  COLORADO SPRINGS BOOSTERS GO UP, UP AND AWAY WITH ED BEAUVAIS.HIGH FLYER HOW MUCH OF A FLIGHT RISK IS WESTERN PACIFIC'S ED BEAUVAIS? JUST ASK THE INVESTORS IN HIS LAST AIRLINE.

  November 15, 1995

• OFF LIMITS

  June 14, 1995

• PLANE TRUTH

  OPPONENTS OF JEFFCO PASSENGER SERVICE ARE FLYING BLIND.

  April 26, 1995

• NORTH OF THE BORDER

  A MEXICAN AIRLINE PURSUES ITS EX-CHAIRMAN TO A VAIL CONDO.

  April 12, 1995

• CAN'T WE ALL GET ALONG?

  NOT WITHOUT "FACILITATORS," WHO ARE GETTING IN TOUCH WITH PLENTY OF TAXPAYER MONEY.

  September 14, 1994

• CHOPPERS GET AXED

  MAYOR WEBB POSTPONES PLANS FOR A DOWNTOWN HELICOPTER PAD.

  August 24, 1994

• Small Craft Warnings

  Regional airports had high hopes when DIA said it wasn't interested in private avaiation. But guess what? DIA changed its mind. Again. Gorilla tactics as dia makes a grab for private planes, regional airports bail out of their expansion plans.

  January 12, 1994

• Five stars at 30,000 feet

  There's much more planning required for very high-altitude cuisine than there is a mere mile above sea level, as Andres Jimenez is learning. Starting May 1, the exec chef at the Ritz-Carlton downtown will be the first of four Ritz-Carlton chefs to take on a two-month stint creating high-end, sky-high cuisine for U.S.-to-Germany travelers on Lufthansa Airlines.

  April 21, 2009

• Today's Featured Event: Record-break at Film on the Rocks' World's Largest Music Lesson

  Paramount Pictures/Lucasfilm Join Henry and Indy Jones at Film on the Rocks.​Film on the Rocks is, hands down, my favorite summer film series in the area. First, there's the gorgeous view of the city from Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 West Alameda Parkway in Morrison. Then there's all the additional entertainment thrown in for the price of admission -- music and comedy and giveaways galore. And finally, there are the films themselves, hand-picked by the folks over at the Denver Film Soc

  July 28, 2009

• Southwest CEO Gary Kelly on the bid for Frontier

  Gary Kelly.​With yesterday's promise of a $170 million bid for Frontier Airlines, Southwest Airlines made it clear it really, really wants the Denver-based carrier. After all, the total was nearly $60 million more than its previously announced offer of $113 million, which was already higher than the $108 million total pledged by Southwest's primary rival in the Frontier sweepstakes, Republic Airways Holdings. Gary Kelly, Southwest's CEO and president, stressed this interest in a memo sent

  August 11, 2009

• GOLDEN FLEECE

  October 5, 1994

• Southwest post-game remarks about losing Frontier

  ​Moments ago, Southwest Airlines released a statement about what everyone else had already figured out -- that Southwest's massive bid for Frontier Airlines had fallen apart at the last minute over an inability to get Frontier pilots to concede on seniority-oriented contract issues. In the document, Southwest CEO Gary Kelly, who seemed so confident of victory over early suitor Republic Airways Holdings just days ago, comes across as both magnanimous and philosophical in defeat, saying, "T

  August 14, 2009

• Three possible futures for Denver International Airport

  ​Republic Airways Holdings' victory over Dallas-based Southwest Airlines in the Frontier sweepstakes raises more questions than it answers, as Dallas Morning News airline blogger Eric Torbenson makes clear in "What Will Denver Look Like in Two Years?," an analysis published earlier today. In Torbenson's view, United Airlines may not survive the current turbulence in the airline industry, and even if it does, it could make significant changes to its Denver operation. Likewise, Southwest may

  August 17, 2009

• Southwest lets Frontier know it's not flying away

  ​When Southwest Airlines made its run at purchasing Frontier Airlines this past month, a number of industry observers speculated that it was doing so because Frontier was kicking its ass in Denver. But just because Southwest eventually lost out to underdog Republic Airways Holdings in the Frontier sweepstakes doesn't mean the firm has plans to slowly back out of the market here. Far from it: Southwest has just announced that it's expanding service at Denver International Airport, adding fl

  September 11, 2009

• Our five best guesses about what those Northwest pilots were doing on their laptops as they drifted over Denver

  Up, up and away -- but where to?​ The latest story from those Northwest Airlines pilots who missed their Minneapolis-St. Paul destination by a mere 150 miles last week: As they flew over Denver, they started fiddling with their laptops and kinda/sorta lost track of time. Which is understandable considering all the great ways the Internet provides to waste hours of your life. Here are five sites so entrancingly odd that it'd be easy to soar across half a continent without realizing it:

  October 27, 2009