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The Houston Astros look to defend their MLB title, as they start the season today against the Texas Rangers.
Also, very sad news on the Opening Day of the 2018 Major League Baseball season, as legend Rusty Staub has passed away at the age of 73. He enjoyed a 23-year baseball career with 5 different teams.
Southwest Airlines has added the Louisiana One logo jet to its fleet to celebrate 39 years of service to New Orleans. The jet wears an artist’s rendering of the Louisiana State flag, and was rolled out earlier this month on march 7th. The aircraft was unveiled at a special event at the New Orleans Louis Armstrong International Airport.
Southwest started flights to New Orleans in 1979, and was the airline’s first destination outside of its home state of Texas. The Mardi Gras styled celebration event at the airport included musicians, state and local government officials, community members, and Southwest Airlines employees. Southwest now operates more than 50 daily nonstop flights to 21 destinations from New Orleans.
The Louisiana One is part of a 12 state logo jet fleet of boeing 737’s in the Southwest fleet. It joins the Arizona One, California One, Colorado One, Florida One, Illinois One, Lone Star State One (Texas), Maryland One, Missouri One, Nevada One, New Mexico One and Tennessee One.
You can checkout a YouTube video of the Louisiana One introduction at the link below!
A charter flight between George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) and the continent of Africa reportedly will end this month.
Known as the “Houston Express,” the 7,700-mile flight is operated by Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings (Nasdaq: AAWW) on behalf of SonAir Airline Services SA, a subsidiary of Angolan national petroleum company Sonangol Group. It would fly between IAH and Luanda, Angola, a few times per week throughout the year and is set to end March 28, according to reports from the Houston Chronicle, PointsPros Inc. travel blog One Mile at a Time and aviation news site Airline Geeks.
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Houston losing only nonstop to Africa
United Airlines has been busy since Hurricane Harvey tore through Houston in late August reinforcing its commitment to a city where the Chicago-based carrier has one of its largest and most important hubs at George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
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United Airlines moves into 609
Zack Greinke beats Dallas Keuchel in a 3-0 D-Backs win over the Astros on Thursday afternoon in Houston. Zack Greinke pitched seven outstanding innings for the Arizona Diamondbacks. The 2015 starting pitcher in the All-Star game for the National League held the Houston hitters to just four singles, and retired 17 of the first 18 batters he faced. He struck out 11 Astros batters and allowed no walks, improving his record on the year to 7-3. Dallas Keuchel also had a shutout going into the seventh, but then allowed the first four batters in the inning to reach base. One of those hits looked like a routine double play ball. With runners on first and second and no outs in the inning, the Astros employed a poorly executed shift, expecting a bunt on the first two pitches to the D-Backs seven hole batter Chris Owings. On the second pitch, Owings grounded the pitch through the vacated shortstop position, and on into left center field for a RBI single. Arizona was able to tack on a third run with two consecutive fly ball outs to Carlos Gomez in Center Field off relief pitcher Pat Neshek. The first one advanced both runners from first and second. The next scored Jake Lamb from third base.
The Astros defeat ended their longest winning streak of the season at five games. That five game streak included three straight over Arizona, before the Diamondbacks were able to salvage the final game of a four game home and home series. The only real highlight for Houston came in the eighth inning, when Arizona’s Michael Bourn was ruled safe at second on a stolen base. The throw by Houston catcher Evan Gattis and tag by second baseman Jose Altuve appeared to get the runner before he reached second. Even though the Astros had already used their challenge, Houston manager A.J. Hinch came out to ask home plate umpire Ron Kulpa is they were sure about the call? After he conferred with the second base umpire Jerry Meals, they agreed to take another look at the play. Replay video clearly showed that Jose Altuve applied the tag on Michael Bourn’s sleeve before he reached the bag, and the call was reversed.
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