No Dallas

American Airlines recently announced that effective late November, the Syracuse Dallas-Fort Worth flight and on of their 4 daily Syracuse Chicago flights are going to be cut. This is part of nationwide scale back in operations resulting from the rising price of fuel and overall bad economy. This could have been worse as some cities like Harrisburg (which has 2 ORD flights a one to DFW) are losing service from American and other airlines entirely.

Fort Drum 100 anniversary Airshow
On Sunday, June 29th I attended Fort Drum's 100 anniversary airshow which is the first large airshow that the base has hosted. The parking situation was bit chaotic and it resulting in me and my friend getting a front row parking spot. There was a KC-10, KC-135R, C-5A, B-25, B-17, DC-3, A-10, F-16, L-29 Delfin, BAE Strikemaster , two T-45's, two C-130's, and numerous smaller planes, drones, and helicopters on display. One of the drones was worth $300,000 yet was was 3 ft long, had a 4 ft wingspan, and was only 1 ft high. There was also numerous military vehicles on display including an M101 Abrams tank which one could walk on numerous artillery pieces and small arms that people could take a look at. The flying display wasn't too bad with the exception of an F-18F whose afterburner was very load (I was fortunate to be in the KC-10 at the time and it shielded me from some of the noise). A News10now story on the show can be found here:
http://news10now.com/content/top_stories/119112/fort-drum-centennial-air-show/Default.aspx

Sun Country 738
A Sun Country 737-800 flew into Syracuse last weekend from Fort McCory, Wisconsin with members of an engineering battalion who had just served a year in Iraq. Footage of the return of the soldiers and their plane can be seen here:
http://www.9wsyr.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=2939bfa8-095d-45b3-a878-1c25dce3a124