As more XJ -200s come on property you'll see them flying on a multitude of routes. For one schedule period we may go to HPN, and then next we may not. It all has to do with lines of flying associated to the a/c. Similarly you'll see the 900 going places one time and a mainline a/c doing it in the next schedule change and the same is true for Saab routes as well. In the summer INL is all 9E CRJ where as in the winter it is all XJ saab. This is how NWA leverages their capasity.

The bottom line is that these routes are NWA routes and they choose for whatever reasons they have, which carrier operates them on their behalf. It's nothing personal or that one pilot group is better than the other. So we're not losing HPN to Pinnacle... NWA just shifted the operator of their MSP-HPN-MSP route.