If they all stayed east of the Mississippi like the 88 used to do, it would be a good aircraft for that mission when compared to the 757. You don't need a 3900 mile range when going ATL to CVG. And the commonality and parts availability makes it that much more efficient. But I wouldn't expect that we'd need more than about 50 or 60 to fill that niche.

Maybe that's the plan. With SWA coming to ATL, we'll need to put mainline metal everywhere to compete. They could run hourly -900's to LGA instead of 757's. MCO, JAX, BOS, PHL, DTW, FLL, MIA, TPA, all those places see a lot of 757's from ATL right now. And you know we'll be wingtip to wingtip with SWA in the near future to all those places. The Carribean, Cancun, Puerto Rico, all could be -900's. That makes a lot more sense than sending them out West where they will be pushing the limits of what they can effectively do. And yes, all 737's are high cycle airplanes, just like the DC 9/...