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How can we be operating 8 former Freedom, now Pinnacle planes if there are only 7 to go around? Sounds like this unofficial official announcement which never happened still has a few people mixed up. Maybe it's the 7 from Freedom/Pinnacle and 8 new ones?
A Mesaba mechanic in MSP gave us those numbers today along with some of the details of there configuration that can be expected. I don't remember all of the details. He also said that a MX base (perhaps a pilot base as well) would be opening in ATL sometime in the spring around the time that Mesaba will begin revenue flights to ATL. The SAABs will start flying in there around February and the CRJs around March.