I don't know if you would be able to turn down the Q to fly the Saab. I helped a buddy get hired a while back (year ago or so) at Colgan. He wanted to fly the Saab so he could be based at home in HEF. They offered him the 1900, he said he wanted the Saab to stay at home. They told him 1900 take it or leave it. He's not working at Colgan.

As for outstation basing, don't depend on that. It is going away. We opened up LGA as a base to cover flying to MDT and when we took the beech out of LEB we added those lines to LGA. Next month ITH is closing as a crew base, and that was one our old staples as a base. Looking at the bids, they're also taking some flying away from CHO next month and putting it in LGA so they may be next on the list. It really looks like we're gonna be a hub based oepration sooner than later.