Originally Posted by Doubleknuckle

Sky,

What is so f'ing hard to understand here? To be honest, you sound like someone that is not even an airline pilot. Are you having fun playing flight simulator on your sweet setup in the garage? Do you not understand that airlines use different services? Here is the thing, Mesa HAS ACARS that reports OOOI times in their airplanes. There are NO magic IN/OUT numbers being called in. They DO NOT currently have
the ability to receive PDC, ATIS, or IN RANGE (thus the need to call for a gate, clearance and listen to the ridiculously long ATIS). Try getting a clearance in IAD sometime, numerous airlines are calling nonstop. I don't know if you work for envoy. If so, then you have everything in your little Universal FMS magic box. It is absolutely crazy that other regional airlines do not have the wonderful features envoy has. Sorry to ruin you conspiracy theory against the Devil's airline. Oh and by the way, this is not new to DFW.

Ok....let's take a little look back at the history of the illustrious "B" terminal in DFW. A little over two years should do it...around Valentines day 2013. A little company called Expressjet moved 11 CRJ 200s into the Eagle's nest, so to say. Maintenance was a huge issues initially, I believe they did not even have a spare aircraft in the beginning. They had the same issues that Mesa is facing. There were tons of delayed or cancelled flights. Everyone complained about how horrible the operation was, even the outstations. Envoy was going to get that flying back....over two years later, it looks like they righted their ship. Oh well, keep letting Mesa get under your skin. Try to get some sleep.