Are you saying this "rumor" is that XJ is getting ALL the 9E flying out of MSP?

I would say that is HIGHLY unlikely since the route structure that NWA has for 9E is us flying all the planes through all the hubs to limit delays when one hub gets slammed on. A typical sched for MEM will have us doing multiple turns through at least one of the OTHER hubs. I have even had 4 day trips where I do turns out of MSP, DTW, and IND, just to end back in MEM (I call them hub tours). I am not saying MSP will not be getting more flying for XJ in leu of 9E but for the month of February MSP has 28 CRJ's and 8600 hours allocated to MSP trips out of almost 38,500ish hours total between all the hubs. This is also with 127 CRJ's on the NWA system. We had 137 at one point so I guess you have 10 out of the 15. NWA cannot pull anymore of the CRJ's from us until we get either a large contract (more than 24 A/C i believe) for another carrier OR they do a 1:1 swap for a CRJ 900 for a -200. I could see the total flying be lowered on the 9E side out of MSP with XJ getting the -900's and Compass running primarily out of MSP at this point. The rumor on the 9E side is that we are going to be getting some of the -900's and XJ is going to get some more -200's in exchange. We all know how rumors go though...