Originally Posted by Mea25000

I know there are a lot of pilots on pins and needles waiting to find out if this base will stay open. I can say with confidence that it will close the end of August.
I know a lot of people are concerned on the VX side with a majority of the transcon flights heading to the Boeing. I can tell you from the Boeing side a lot of us our going to miss the North South flying and all the turns we will see vanish. This transition will be painful for both parties going forward.
I know a lot of you on the VX side understand the economics of the 321 and wonder why we don’t just use them on the east west routes. You are right, it does very well but we just don’t have that many of them. Going forward it will be an aircraft that will continue to fly transcons while the 320 moves almost exclusively to North South and Midcons.
I think it should be noted the 739 max should produce a very similar if not better CSM to the 321. It appears this will be the work horse of our growing fleet going forward.