Things in the Sky

There weren’t any huge news stories yesterday (at least in my opinion), so I’m going to write a post I’ve been planning for awhile.

In August 1999, my airline nerd-ness lept to a whole new level. My father brought home a US Airways magazine (then Attaché) for my mother. I ended up finding it and just kept going through the route and terminal maps, so he decided to bring the next month’s issue. And the one after that. And then another one…

One reason I loved the magazine was that at the time, I was planning to create Dan Airways. (I was nine at the time.) Back then, US Airways didn’t draw its routes on the map in the back of magazine, it just showed what cities the airline served, so it was easy for me to draw the route map of my future empire. Sadly, the company never materialized as an allowance less than $10/week did not prove to be sufficient capital.

My dad kept brinigng the magazines, but he also told friends and business associates about my hobby. This is actually how I get most of them. For example, of all the magazines I have, the most are from Continental, yet I’ve never flown them becuase a family we’re friendly with flies them often. My school friends help out, too. I would usually have six or seven magazines after the end of the first day back from a break. When I went to the movies a few nights ago, I walked out with magazines from Contiental and Swiss.

You can see a list of all my issues here, and I’ve created a page to share my recent finds.

So there’s my big airline hobby. What’s yours?