Originally Posted by
Denny Crane
The 88 is on its way out the door. If it was staying around, more MSP slots would be a solution as suggested but...............since it is going out the door, it will eventually be pared down to one base (ATL) and eliminated. Hence the category getting all the love from the MD'd categories. As to keeping the 90's, they will probably be the MSP 88 category's savior for a while......
Denny
Not so sure that MSP will close as a MD90 base. Even when it's down to just the 65 MD90s, that is still plenty of aircraft to support 2 bases (the 717 with similar numbers supports 3 bases) and with MSP having a lot of MD90 departures due to it's ideal location (the MD90 can make it to both coasts), I suspect it will stay as a base albeit probably smaller than it's current size.