no offense, but where do you base this opinion of yours? what facts? The past? If GW was still here and it were 2-3 years ago it probably would be a base by now. He's not here anymore. The GRR failure along with GSO already being called out should show you exactly how useless a small base would be. And no FO's currently on the 145 would likely get into a mythical SDF 170 base as they really do not want to hire onto that airframe again. Everything we've come to know about RAH has changed over the past 8 months. It's only going to continue to do so as well.

someone is trying to make a decision on where to go and you're throwing out an opinion. I'm telling you as someone who see's the numbers and talks to planning it's not in the cards. I think the 145 isn't long for this world here either, as it's our staffing agency for the 170 and eventually the Q. I'm not trying to rile up the guys who live in the outstations, but the facts are what they are. if its no longer efficient to staff our airline through SDF, GSO, IND and CMH, they won't do it. We're being exposed right now for that.