Originally Posted by
CLT Guy
Here is a good rumor with absolutely no basis whatsoever. The only reason that we are starting a 700 initial program is that we are sending all of the 200's to Air Wisconsin and picking up more 900's (the rest of the options). Other than that, there is no real reason to start initial training in the 700's. It certainly isn't to speed up the sims, because we have many more 200 sims than 700 sims.
Sending 35 200s to Whisky and getting the remaining 16 options would be a net loss of 19 airframes compared to what the fleet plan is now.
That said, our pay would go up too, so there's that.
It'll also be interesting to see what effect that would have on TYS and DAY as bases. I know TYS doesn't see the larger airframes very often.