All Hail! TED is Dead!

If you've been watching the news of late, you've seen and heard a lot about airline shrinkage. There's just no way the US airline industry can keep operating the way it has been in the face of oil at $138USD a barrel. So it's change a-gogo right now. Some of these changes blow ($15 for the first bag - gracias, American Airlines) and others do not. Like United's decision to behead TED, its airline within an airline concept. When TED first started flying, I was a fan, but that's because I was in LA and doing mostly short-hauls on TED. Moving to Chicagoland quickly killed any affinity for TED. So the announcement earlier this week that TED was to be euthanized (not quickly enough, if you ask me, since it won't totally go away until 2009) was a good, no a great, one. So adios, TED. Adios.

Way steamy in Chicagoland today. I ran at 7:00AM today to avoid the heat and by the time I was done at 8:00AM, the heat was on and the bugs descended as if sent as a curse, a la Old Testament times. Ugly, with a capital "U"!

Speaking of curses from on high, here's today's 80's flashback:

That's right...Bon Jovi. Head for the hills....