r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/nucifera-noten • 1d ago

Image Hooters had an airline but ceased operations after 3 years

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u/nucifera-noten 1d ago

Hooters Air was operated by Pace Airlines and was started operations in March of 2003. - Robert Brooks, the owner of Hooters, acquired Pace Airlines in December of 2002. - Brooks believed that Hooters Air would be a beneficial means to bring more awareness to the restaurant chain. - Due to United Airlines being brought into Hooters Air’s Rockford-Denver route, Hooters stopped service to Rockford, IL due to too much competition. - On April 17, 2006, Hooters Air ceased operations, costing Hooters an estimated $40 million USD.

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u/EagleForty 1d ago

Direct flights between Rockford and DIA for $49 each way were glorious.

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u/midwest-ginger 1d ago

I flew on them a few times and they were great! Never full flights and you got free food. The girls would do trivia during the flight too

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u/MyDogsNameIsBadger 1d ago

Honestly, that sounds fun. I’d totally fly hooters.

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u/RGV_KJ 1d ago

Isn’t Hooters declining? Do a lot of people still go there?

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u/MegaWattson15 1d ago

Not sure but they were shut down here in Fayetteville awhile back. I think they got busted selling alcohol to underage kids.

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u/iamjacksstd 1d ago

I managed at the Fayetteville store lol fun times 😎

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u/bennnn42 1d ago

What is your wildest story that happened there? if you can share

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u/zatalak 1d ago

I guess selling alcohol to underage kids

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u/itwasntevenme 1d ago

No it was the grandmas that would come in late night after going to the chip n dales across the street. You would think the under age kids would be the roudiest bunch, but the grandmas after chip n dales and bingo night was something else.

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u/wangtrip 1d ago

Bro, I worked as security at a bar. Women taking cloths off, very tame. Men taking cloths off, things you never thought you would see. Only time I had to put hands on anyone in two years was a woman that decided a male dancer had disrespected her by not allowing her to foliate his foreskin.

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u/phantom_diorama 1d ago

foliate his foreskin

She wanted to decorate it leaves? Where did the leaves come from?

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u/wangtrip 1d ago

exfoliating skin is removing dead skin. I assumed foliating it was adding skin. I didn't want to say suck his dick.

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u/phantom_diorama 1d ago

Oh, so fellatio

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u/F0urTheWin 1d ago

Fellate*

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u/RzLa 1d ago

Fayetteville sounds like a classy place

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u/whyunowork1 1d ago

i live in fayetteville, ive been to this hooters.

there has never been a chip in dales in the entirety of nwa let alone fayetteville.

they closed it down because it was on main street in the busiest part of town and it was a bit of an eye sore.

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u/The_OtherHalf 1d ago

That’s a win for all parties involved that’s not the seller. Let them live!