I had a guy I flew with the other day tell me:
1. mainline nixed PSA's desire at the last minute to make CVG a crew base. Apparently AA is tired of deadheading crews in to the hubs from the outstation bases (which of course doesn't cost PSA anything).
2. Chicago and STL have also been ruled out due to cost and/or lack of space
3. The fleet manager is under the impression that CVG will be the new base and has no idea why it hasn't been announced yet (see #1).

All of this is of course 4th and 5th hand rumor material, but it gives hope to those wanting a BNA base. If AA really is making BNA a "focus city," that's also good news.

Does anyone know if we're proceeding with plans to make BNA a MX base? A mechanic in CLT told me that the airport had offered up free hangar space for us.