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Last update: October 28, 2004 at 11:06 AM
startribune.com traveler: Not even a lockout will stop this Delta 'fan fare'
Troy Melhus, startribune.com
Obviously they're not hockey fans.
The robots at Delta Airlines apparently didn't get the memo last month -- or haven't consulted a sports section in the last several -- to get this newsflash: hockey is officially "locked out."
That's management speak for the cancellation of all NHL games -- essentially management taking their ball and going home -- until the players and league reach a new deal on paychecks. The lockout began Sept. 15 -- last month.
Yet a glance at this weekend's Fan Fares from Delta Airlines suggests something a bit different:
"Hockey action is back," the site reports. "Catch a game and support your hometown team in one of these great hockey towns."
Seven last-minute flight deals are then listed, including a $158 roundtrip flight from Minneapolis to Dallas, for the scheduled match up between the Stars and Wild on Monday, Nov. 1.
At first I rubbed my eyes: Did the html code monkeys at Delta know something that the rest of us did not?
Not likely. More likely -- and all the more humorous, then -- is that those who actually program the page obviously aren't on top of the not-so-latest NHL news. (Hockey fans have been fretting about this since well before the end of last season and, as of this writing, games are officially cancelled through Sat., Nov. 13).
Regardless, though, it's all good for the last-minute traveler who wants to head to Dallas. And as for sports fans, let your friends in New York know that there are cyberfares from the Big Apple to the Mini-Apple this weekend for the Giants at the Vikings here.
That's the National Football League. NFL. Sunday.
And the game's not cancelled.
startribune.com traveler: Not even a lockout will stop this Delta 'fan fare'
Troy Melhus, startribune.com
Obviously they're not hockey fans.
The robots at Delta Airlines apparently didn't get the memo last month -- or haven't consulted a sports section in the last several -- to get this newsflash: hockey is officially "locked out."
That's management speak for the cancellation of all NHL games -- essentially management taking their ball and going home -- until the players and league reach a new deal on paychecks. The lockout began Sept. 15 -- last month.
Yet a glance at this weekend's Fan Fares from Delta Airlines suggests something a bit different:
"Hockey action is back," the site reports. "Catch a game and support your hometown team in one of these great hockey towns."
Seven last-minute flight deals are then listed, including a $158 roundtrip flight from Minneapolis to Dallas, for the scheduled match up between the Stars and Wild on Monday, Nov. 1.
At first I rubbed my eyes: Did the html code monkeys at Delta know something that the rest of us did not?
Not likely. More likely -- and all the more humorous, then -- is that those who actually program the page obviously aren't on top of the not-so-latest NHL news. (Hockey fans have been fretting about this since well before the end of last season and, as of this writing, games are officially cancelled through Sat., Nov. 13).
Regardless, though, it's all good for the last-minute traveler who wants to head to Dallas. And as for sports fans, let your friends in New York know that there are cyberfares from the Big Apple to the Mini-Apple this weekend for the Giants at the Vikings here.
That's the National Football League. NFL. Sunday.
And the game's not cancelled.
