# Best. Airline site. Ever. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 31, 2004, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-airline-site-ever/257669 "2004-07-31T00:29:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-airline-site-ever/257669/1 "2004-07-31T00:29:28Z")
[http://www.skyhighairlines.com/](http://www.skyhighairlines.com/) …just try making a reservation, and read the small print. It’s priceless 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-airline-site-ever/257669/2 "2004-07-31T04:26:44Z")
Hehehe…great stuff…I especially like their “Cumulative 4-Star Vacation Packages”, and some of their worker testimonials: _- Some people call it “lost luggage.” But we like to say, “if you love something, set it free. If it comes back, well, that’s pretty good.”_ _-I have no people skills. But I do like animals. So I just pretend my passengers are livestock._ I’m going to guess that this whole thing is a joking front for Alaska Air, since many of the pages have things like this: “For those unable to devote 3-4 weeks travel time, you could theoretically try [alaskaair.com](http://alaskaair.com). They have low fares and Web Specials. And you can fly in a jet. Whoop-dee-doo.” ---
**Author:** ![mcott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@mcott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcott)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-airline-site-ever/257669/3 "2004-07-31T04:50:47Z")
You have just destroyed 3 hours of potential productivity 🙂 Once this gets around to my cow - workers and friends, I think it’s safe to say that this one website will be guilty of sapping about 1000 person-hours of work on Monday :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-airline-site-ever/257669/4 "2004-07-31T09:58:44Z")
I’m pretty sure that Sky High Airlines was featured in a series of Alaska Airlines radio commericals. The shtick was how badly they treated you. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-airline-site-ever/257669/5 "2004-07-31T16:17:40Z")
> [@Cardinal](#): > > I’m pretty sure that Sky High Airlines was featured in a series of Alaska Airlines radio commericals. The shtick was how badly they treated you. Bingo. They also did a few television ads some years back. I remember one which featured a “Joe Nebish” type being entranced by images of champagne and lobster, balloons, confetti, and the mind-destroying jingle: _Sky High Airlines! Sky High Airlines! Climb aboard Sky HighAirlines— We’ve got our heads in the clouds!_ At the end of the SHA ad, Joe gives an enthusiastic response to the pilot’s “thumbs up.” Next thing we see, he’s crammed into something that looks like a baby seat between two enormous shadowy figures in a gloomy cabin, and the flight attendant is handing him a single pretzel on a paper plate. Another ad featured a man desperately asking the other passengers for change, because the airline had installed pay toilets. Classic stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-airline-site-ever/257669/6 "2004-07-31T16:25:10Z")
Reminds me of “Verrifast Plaine Co., Ltd.” from the Monty Python sketch. With classic British subtlety, the pilot’s name was Mr. Kamikaze. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2004, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-airline-site-ever/257669/7 "2004-08-01T05:36:48Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > I’m going to guess that this whole thing is a joking front for Alaska Air Exactamundo: Organization: Alaska Airlines Dean DuVall P.O. Box 68900 Seattle, wa 98168 US Phone: 206-431-5639 Fax…: 206-431-3752 Email: [Dean.Duvall@AlaskaAir.com](mailto:Dean.Duvall@AlaskaAir.com) Registrar Name…: [Register.com](http://Register.com) Registrar Whois…: [whois.register.com](http://whois.register.com) Registrar Homepage: [http://www.register.com](http://www.register.com) Domain Name: [SKYHIGHAIRLINES.COM](http://SKYHIGHAIRLINES.COM) Created on…: Wed, Aug 06, 2003 Expires on…: Wed, Aug 06, 2008 Record last updated on…: Thu, May 13, 2004 Silly spoof site for Alaska, yes, but it is still funny. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2004, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-airline-site-ever/257669/8 "2004-08-01T07:17:46Z")
That is a great site! I will be forwarding that one on to friends. As a slight hijack…I read the other day that Southwest Airlines flight attendants were trying to go on stike for more money. Are you ready for this? Starting salary is $14,000 a year, and those with experience get $25,000 a year! How do these people live?!?! ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2004, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-airline-site-ever/257669/9 "2004-08-01T10:29:42Z")
Um. I don’t make anywhere close to $14,000 a year. I like the site, though. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2004, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-airline-site-ever/257669/10 "2004-08-01T16:04:40Z")
The letters from the chairman are hilarious. > [@](#): > > You see, real trying is usually accompanied by a furrowed brow, genuine stress and things like compassion and concern. > > “Trying,” on the other hand, is fake or, as we like to say, ungenuine. It’s similar to the punctuation-free version but you add the theatric touch of throwing your hands in the air followed by an expressive exhale. “Trying” in the hands of a trained professional is a beautiful thing to behold. > > A pantomime of care. An impotent ballet that stops just short of the dancing. > > It is important to note: It is possible to “try” to act like you’re trying. What did I just say? No clue, really. Just copied it out of that book. That’s the sort of statement that could keep the audience at a Phish concert thinking for weeks. Good stuff. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2004, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-airline-site-ever/257669/11 "2004-08-01T19:11:06Z")
Wow, a round trip from Chicago to Tulsa with only three stops each leg for $3,909?? I’m on it!