Originally Posted by
flyingkangaroo
hahaha I'm reading these posts and cracking up! When i was in training they (management training dep) were saying we were starting an atr base in slc... Just the other day i saw the director of the ATR department going to fly an RJ. All im saying is that they have only said 4 RJs for florida flying and 2 comair CR7's with 12 ATR's still leaving. That's a net reduction of 6 sixty+ seat aircraft. This is just flying being moved around in my opinion. I'm not trying to be negative here but no official announcements have been made about mco, untill then you might as well just ignore it.
All that said I hope this rumor about a base is true cause my surfboard is collecting dust.
you are absolutely right, kangaroo. It is just flying being moved around. The extra 4 RJ's I don't believe are new airframes. I think it is just going to be 4 additional LINES of flying and just an increase in utilization of the 50 seat fleet. After losing APF, MTH, ACY, SCE, MFE, TUP, CRP, MTY, DCA, etc...there is plenty of room to increase flying in the current fleet.
However, official announcements have been made about MCO flying. ASA is defintely doing it. The uncertainly lies in the fact that no one is sure about an MCO base or how long we will even be down there.