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Old 10-31-2017 | 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted by nopantsILS
When did they announce all 30 airplanes are going to ORD? I just saw the update regarding the initial (15?) order.

There's a bunch of lifers in ORD. I think we'll see something like we saw last year, the upgrade will dip down a bit and a mix of senior RJ CA's and a handful of upgrades will make up each CA class. If ORD/BOI is where the growth is....

If any of those airplanes go somewhere other than BOI or ORD there's plenty of RJ CA's and 4-5+ year existing 175 CA's with transition/transfer bids in. LA, SF, DEN and SEA have significant backlogs of senior pilots wishing to transition.
Truth.
15 going to ORD for now.
Second part also true.