So according to that article we have 24 ATR 42s. I never knew we could staff that many air frames with so few pilots

I love a good speculative airline article as much as the next guy. But come on. This is an article about the possibility of using a potential aircraft that we might purchase to fly a proposed route we've considered flying.

You could easily substitute Britten Norman Islander with Apollo lunar module and the article would be just as credible.

And I've heard the Islander rumor, and I had a good laugh, but like any joke, it gets kinda old after a while.