Hundreds of thousands of passengers have been stranded by airlines after the FAA required repairs to their MD-80s. Even our own eponymous shop owner found himself stuck in Texas following the Final Four. The process has been maddening and the responses from the airlines have wavered between inadequate and snotty.

(Not pictured: The Milwaukee Brewers)

Unless you’re the Milwaukee Brewers, of course. When Midwest Airlines has to ground all its charter MD-80s for similar repairs, Ben Sheets doesn’t have to sit in the terminal for 18 hours and incur bed sores on his bottom that put him on the 15-day DL. Instead, Midwest pulls a commercial Boeing 717 out of stock just for them. Read more…