DG - fleet news only counts a/c in active service flying. It doesn't count spares, planes in paint/seat refurb/mx. We never have every single airplane in service at any given time. I wish you were on to something... but this is not good news today.

And now we'll do what we know best at Mesaba... shrinkage and getting kicked around. The 2 years of "growing" back to our original size was great. NOW everyone can have something to worry about. However... we should still wait to see what really happens. Lots can happen between today and Sept.