[quote=jetjockey]I have read about the new expansion plans for IND. Do any of you FedEx guys think that IND will ever become a pilot base? quote]

My guess would be no... at least not anytime soon. FDX management likes the pilots under close control of MEM (Pilots based outside MEM tend to develop a little too much independence for management's taste). Add to that the costs of a pilot management infrastructure, and the relative paucity of available deadheads, and I don't see where management would find a compelling reason for an IND domicile.

They've been waffling back and forth for YEARS over a European domicile, something that's needed far more than another mid-U.S. domicile.