Its reservation system requires at least 60 minutes of time on the ground - I was only scheduled to be on the ground for 25 minutes - so I was on two separate reservations. Denver Air Connection doesn't let you purchase a round-trip, same-day, out-and-back DEN-AIA-DEN reservation. When I arrived in Alliance, a city in western Nebraska with a population of 8,151, I needed a boarding pass. The plane, manufactured in Texas, is affectionately nicknamed the "San Antonio Sewer Pipe." A quick look inside, and you can easily see how it got the "sewer pipe" nickname - thankfully only in shape, not in smell.
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Want more airline-specific news? Sign up for TPG's free biweekly Aviation newsletter. Department of Transportation to operate this route. This Metroliner is operated by Key Lime Air, which brands its passenger operations as Denver Air Connection and receives approximately $2.4 million a year in subsidies from the U.S. I recently flew this plane on that route, from Denver International Airport (DEN) to Alliance Municipal Airport (AIA) in Nebraska and back - service subsidized by the federal government's Essential Air Service program, which provides a subsidy to airlines to maintain air carrier service to small airports that would not otherwise be commercially viable. This plane was popular with regional airlines in the 1980s and 1990s, but now just a single airline operates it - and on a single route. right now, the Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner. I didn't, either, until I recently took a flight aboard one of the most unique passenger planes flying in the U.S.
Did you know that it is possible for a plane to simultaneously be cramped and roomy?
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