Went and saw the new WVU 2008 Men’s and Women’s basketball team last night. They were also showing off the new Score board, laser’s and ribbon board at the Coliseum. Here is a picture of one of the slam dunks contestents, click this flickr link to see the rest.
While I was out driving around today, I went past where one of my favorite seafood restaurants was in town. Unfortunately their sign was gone, and a different one was there. One for an Italian restaurant (Oliverio’s). To me it seemed as though Flying Fish had went out of business. Which was sad as they always had the freshest fish in town. When I got home I started looking at the Glasshouse Grille’s web page (since they are the owners of the Flying Fish & Co) and saw this:
A new home for Flying fish and Company is now under construction
in the Seneca Center on Beechurst Avenue, right across the hall
from our parent restaurant, The Glasshouse Grille.
Our new store will feature most of the same great seafood, soups, and salads
folks have enjoyed since we started in 2002. Fresh fish fillets cut to order
and a variety of shellfish will be waiting for the cook-at-home gourmets!
This was so cool. Not only is it moving closer to where I live but it has not gone away forever….
I noticed the other night while flipping through the channels that there is now a couple of new channels on the cable boxes. One is 298 and it says something like “free on demand movies”. But every time I go to it, it just sits there saying “Please Wait”. There is another channel 999, which I guess is for the Comcast Tech people only. When I clicked on the OnDemand button on the remote, it took me to a channel, but said I was not authorized to receive that channel.
Another thing coming to town is Red Lobster, will be going in right next to Olive Garden, which is no surprise since I think they are owned by the same company.
Well in under a year, there will have been three different air carriers servicing the Morgantown/Clarksburg/Parkersburg WV cities. Last year around this time it was serviced by Continental Express (Regions Air) which flew to Cleveland, OH. They got grounded so Colgan came in and started flying to Pittsburgh again under the USAirways Express name. Well USAirways is pulling so many flights out of Pittsburgh that the 3 little cities in WV were some of the first to go. So now Colgan will switch to United and fly from the three cities to Dulles.. At least there are more connection options out of there.
I was going through my RSS feeds tonight and saw this USA Today article about how USAirways is pulling more flights out of Pittsburgh, PA.. As I read down through the article something else catches my eye:
As for commercial service, the following cities will lose US Airways service to Pittsburgh: Charleston, W. Va.; Chicago O’Hare; Denver; Erie, Pa.; Norfolk, Va.; and Toronto. Depending on the final scheduling decisions of US Airways’ regional, US Airways says it assumes the following cities will also likely lose Pittsburgh service: Bradford, Pa.; Clarksburg, W. Va.; Franklin, Pa.; Jamestown, N.Y.; Johnstown, Pa.; Lewisburg, W. Va.; Louisville; Morgantown, W. Va.; Nashville; Parkersburg, W. Va.; Syracuse, N.Y.; and Washington Dulles. Among the non-hub flights US Airways is expected to keep are routes to Los Angeles, San Francisco and Orlando, among others.
The key thing in that excerpt, the Morgantown, WV, Parkersburg WV, and Clarksburg WV. We just finally got commercial air service back since the flop with Regions Air (dba Continental Express), and now we have Colgan (dba USAirways Express). So if they are going to cut the flights out of the Tri-City’s to Pittsburgh, were are the flights going to go now? Dulles, Regan? Either would be cool if they did, make my life a little easier. I predict in a year USAir will only be flying a couple of connecting flights out of Pittsburgh to PHL and CLT. This sucks really bad as now I have over 50,000 miles on USAir and not really anywhere to go from Pittsburgh..
What I think should happen is that JetBlue take over PIT and make it a major hub like BOS and JFK are. There are always problems with flying out of BOS and JFK due to either weather, or too many planes in the area etc… Now is the perfect time for JetBlue to make a nice hub that rarely experiences weather problems or delays like JFK/BOS do. This would help JetBlue fix the delay problem before the FAA steps in to start changing flight schedules.. Which reminds me because of the amount of congestion in JFK I got an email from JetBlue saying both of my flights that were routed through JFK have been changed. The first one was changed by like 10 or 20 minutes on the connection through JFK. The second flight they instead are rerouting it through BOS.
Come on JetBlue, increase your service at PIT and make it a good hub again. I think you would do very well there.