Originally Posted by
flywithjohn
Sounds about right - 200 delays are the result of the perfect storm of a
smaller fleet with less OE captains, less routes and they are shorter so OE takes longer. There is people who were hired in January still waiting to touch a plane.
Less OE captains was caused more by the fact that a large percentage of 200 LCA's were in MSP. When the MSP 200 base closed, they went to MSP9 rather than another base.