Look at the awards. PHX and DFW both getting a surge in CRJ transfers, especially DFW. None to LAX and ORD. Couple that with the fact LAX still really hasn’t seen an increase all year, and the fact ORD guys are doing 900 DL trips starting/ending in ORD (all while MSP and DTW gets scraps, and heaps of VTO each month, and I’m sure those guys are upset they’re not getting trips they could have been working). So my guess is a majority to DFW and minority to PHX, and we’ll flow though LAX and ORD to supplement like they’ve been doing to us since the summer.

At the very least, I’m hoping a few of the soon-to-be 90 planes can be kept around as spares. The AA 700s have been working hard, and in these last few months I’ve had more mx delays and deferrals than I’ve seen in most of my time at this company. Nothing beats starting day 1 to see your assigned plane hasn’t even left for its first scheduled turn 4 hours ago, so now you’re waiting 4 hours to steal someone else’s plane once they do a tail swap. Not to mention planes coming out of long-term storage will have issues creep up. Wishful thinking, I know the planes need to operate to make money, but a guy can dream to have at least a spare in each AA hub we have a domicile in.