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MD-11Loader
Management came into our class today and told us that LGA is predicted to go up to 27 airframes. Is there enough real estate there for that much growth? I assume it will come at the expense of other carriers flying. Would they possibly switch it from a LGA base to a NYC base?
Prior to our return the total amount of 50 seat airplanes in AA's NYC system was around 30 hulls divided mostly among Air Wisconsin and TSA with PSA and PDT doing a little through flying. We're starting with around 10 planes which pushed out Air Wisconsin. Those planes in LGA came mostly at the expense of ORD with Skywest backfilling some of that flying with CRJs. The next 15 will either be from other bases or repatriated flying from TSA.