Re dfw delays
I recently had 3 days in a row where I operated the same flight to XNA. How is it that I could do :23/:25/(where both days we were super late) turns, and the last day we had a normal turn and pushed :10 early, but yet in DFW consider a good turn at :60! This last week I had a plane on the ground in dfw for 1:56 and couldn't get gas.
Now yes, we have some serious problems with mx and I'm not going to sugar coat it. A HUGE chunk of our experienced mx staff quit with the closure of CLT, and that is not helping at all. I also find our 3 day checks are being completed in base prior to the plane going out on its last overnight. That tells me we can't route our planes efficiently through the mx bases we have. I'm not sure if that's a function of AMR scheduling/routing, or Mesa....I'm guessing a little of both.
Also one more observation. So Quite a few flights operated by Mesa were previously done by md80's. Where did those planes park? A/C/D, right? Now they are trying to squeeze us in with all of the other regional flights all on top of terminal B construction. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that there's going to be gate issues/delays caused by this. I'm not trying to be a Mesa cheerleader, but please consider the serious uphill battle they are being presented. The PHX and CLT operations weren't that bad.