I, for one, liked the way that Maks was "touchy feely" with Kirstie. Why? Because when a woman is that age and overweight, especially when the woman is famous and used to be stunningly beautiful with a stunningly fabulous body, she would naturally have some issues with feeling a bit out of place or frumpy next to the professional female dancers and the young, thin, and cute celebrity dancers. Kirstie was doing better and better each and every week, and she was also losing weight and inches each and every week. To me, watching Maks be so "loving" towards her, it was like his confirmation to her that she should be proud of herself and her accomplishments and not feel inferior to anyone. It was an affirmation that she is still beautiful and sexy.

I was a booking agent for 4 years with Cheap Tickets, until they sold us to another company and closed our call center. :0) Coach class tickets start out with a class, a letter. There are generally 5 of those letters and then they sell the next letter.....and it's a few dollars more, then after those 5 are sold the price goes up with the next letter, until you will eventually pay almost double for a coach class seat when the plane is almost full. Some airlines charge more for seats next to exits because of the extra leg room. Or more for an aisle or window seat on a plane with 3 on each side and 5 seats in the middle. If a flight isn't filling up an airline might reduce the price. OR.....for instance Quantas will give last minute deals about 3 days before a flight is scheduled to leave. Some airlines discount flights stopping at hubs they own for refueling. Booking with multiple airlines can sometimes same you money if you don't mind the multiple stops. I use "Travel Zoo"....to compare prices. And the program "Side step".

I would. But keep in mind the downside of a small fleet is major delays if something is wrong with a plane and they have to bring the other in. Years ago, we flew to Myrtle Beach on Hooters Air. They only flew to MB on Thursdays and Sundays. Something was wrong with the Sunday night plane and the next scheduled flight wasn't until Thursday so no simple rebooking for the next day. We had to wait for another plane to finish its normal route to come to MB to get us. It was a 7 to 8 hour delay. They gave us vouchers for food but said use it now, the 'food court' closes early. It was/is a small airport and I think it closed by about 8 pm. I think there were three food options: Pizza Hut, Subway, and maybe a bar. We didn't leave MB until 1 am. They offered vouchers for a free flight but who wants to take the chance of being stranded again? I think they went out of business shortly after that.

I have considered finding a better gasket. It just wasn't worth the time ...gaskets would need to be custom cut and if Wolf can't even get the right sized O ring to be spec, what would a normal Joe be able to do. I've spent more than $300 per incident. Me spending more than $3 is also my problem, as the spark modules is also shoehorned under the flatop and the only access is to break $300 in seals so I'd rather be a penny wise # foolish on not replacing them if I have the -hood- open.. I've even gone as far as replacing the flattop itself and even buying 2 new burner assemblies thinking maybe some warpage was a issue, just to rule out the madness Surely Wolf has more brains than I do so I'm going to pre-sume they also have more R&D. Don't really think it would be wise to even try to deviate from OE parts/materials........gas/KaBoom. There are 2 gaskets and one O Ring per burner assembly. The O ring that sits on on the top burner that meets the flat top......it's crazy I tell you. The groove on that part of the O ring is supposed to sit is maybe 1/32 or a hair larger. The O Ring Itself is like 1/16" in diameter and the ---SIZE--- of it , doesn't sit into the channel on this piece. So to install it, you gently need to hold the O ring using your fingers slowly to hold it in this groove, put the assembly down, then 7 times out of 10, the minute you release you finger as the assembly needs to sit on the flatop, the O Ring is not lined up. So here you are, just doing a small lift at a til, and then pushing it roughly in place with a small plastic wedge, etc. Then do a rough feel to see if the O ring is kinda sitting on the groove as now everything is all flush to the flattop. There has been moments where I have said FFFFFF it, let me go grab me a tube of RTV. I'll snap a pic of this O Ring and how it's doesn't even sit on the groove when I do the teardown. On my 1st repair, I thought I received wrong parts but it looks like it is what it is.... Parts just came in yesterday.