Originally Posted by Truman_Sparks
Slap....you are the most optomistic person I have ever seen. I hope youre right about half your predictions. Perhaps you havent been here long enough to get kicked in the nuts enough. Massive growth after a contract, which may or may not get solved in this century, is quite optomistic. Who knows if LA will remain a base, let alone grow to a DFW!?!?!? And I've never heard of replacements for the ATR or keeping the 700's or getting 705/900's. Boy, I need a pair of your rose colored glasses. Heres to hoping.
Well, there hasn't relly been anything in writting that we are not getting our 700s back, other than king tutts' 'letter of doom'. As far as the ATR, weeks ago there was an atr-72-500 at the GA ramp in ATL. From what I understand Delta, ASA and Skywest people took a trip around it. Last week LaBreaqe (or however you spell) it was in montreal to look at the q400. They need to replace the ATR by april and they need something to fly to Dotha Al. and Colombus GA. and a 50 seater isn't going to cut it.