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Old 11-13-2009 | 05:34 AM
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From: Bebe Bus De L'Air Assistant Aerial Conveyance Facilitator
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Originally Posted by Mantra
OK, so does that mean that the SLC base is shrinking? I had assumed the MSP 320 displacement would be as big as the MD90 category currently in SLC. Am I missing something?
We won't know until the AE comes out but that's not the way I understood it. There's just going to be more narrow body flying system wide, which I assume is going to be through an increase in block hours.

Instead of doing a 1 for 1 displacement between SLC and MSP, the staffing for the SLC 320 will mostly come from this increased flying. There was nothing said that would indicate SLC was shrinking.

Another way of looking at this is that even with the arrival of the M90 into MSP, there's still going to be enough MSP 320 flying that they're not displacing a 320 crew for every M90. Barry said that there will be some 320 displacement to SLC, but not a whole lot.

I guess it makes sense for the company to do it that way, since most of the SLC 320 slots will be open to anyone in the system and will be filled by AE instead of an MD, thereby saving moving costs.