So basically you're posting heresay? What parked 900s are you talking about? What short staffing are you talking about? The vacancies for the jets continue to get published and filled and people are going to training. The issue with the 200 is that so many people are waiting for IOE. YOu can only fly so many hours in a day and since the planes started being delivered late, that created the initial backlog in training. The more deliveries will allow more IOE to be completed, thus cleaning up the backlog. If NWA thinks by delaying the deliveries to Mesaba is the solution to the "staffing issue" they're crazy. The info you're getting from your sources seem to contradict what really is taking place at Mesaba.