Probably the best thing they can do to compete against Virgins E190s and it will be interesting to see how the two compare once they come online.However I didn't think that there would be any factory fresh 717s left? I thought production on them stopped in 2006 or 07?

What about an expansion of the check-in area to go along with this? More gates, more flights... More people.Sick of having to battle my way through the snaking queues trying to work out which line is Virgin and which line is DeathStar when I need to drop off a bag... 

I have a young baby and I have no problems with MAS banning children from a particular section or class of their planes. In fact good on them. Children, and babies in particular are noisy, and they annoyed the crap out of me before mine came along (actually... she still annoys the crap out of me,...