Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] State Farm Stays

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Dave Lloyd wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Jonathan King wrote:
> 
> > My theory on why they closed that center was that the executives in 
> > charge, who hang out in Clayton, MO, was that it was fine to have 
> > back office stuff in Columbia, just a mile or two from their season 
> > tickets to Mizzou games.  Tulsa was a bearable flight by commercial 
> > airliner.  And Monroe was...man, that place is in the middle of 
> > nowhere.  
> 
> Yup.  When I had to go to Vicksburg, MS (don't ask why),

Vicksburg??  Do re-enacters buy Altix systems to run battle
simulations or something?  :-)

> my choices were either Monroe or Jackson.  That whole area is in
> the middle of nowhere. The only way to get to Monroe is to
> transfer through Memphis on Northwest, then you have to fly a
> little puddle jumper to get there. What a PITA!

I suspected as much.  But let the record show that air connections 
to Columbia do not tend to impressive outsiders, either.  (Yes, 
we've had job candidates in our department and the {relative lack 
of} airline service does come up a lot.)  The weirdness of it all 
being that the de-hubbing of St. Louis might be a significant 
long-term benefit to the Columbia air travel market.

> I flew into Jackson since I could get my AAdvantge miles doing it
> that way.  On the way back, I got to see what flying right through
> a thunderstorm feels like on a RJ45 regional jet.  Joy!

Of course, if State Farm was looking to avoid thunderstorm-prone
locations, they would have shut down Monroe, Columbia, *and* Tulsa. 
:-)

jking



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