I'm curious to see what will happen in SLC. For one, I know 12 Airbus's are going out there in January to be based for NWA/DAL and some of the MD's will be coming to MSP, you will see the heavy flying (747 & 330) shift to other domestic bases and the (767 & 777) will take their place with the smaller market in MSP. Does this mean since the market has shrunken so much in MSP, that we will see more 50-76 seat aircraft out of the Twin Cities? Who knows....nothing like taken 13 people to STL on a 76 seat RJ

While I know SKW represents a percentage of flying in SLC, I still find it odd that SLC was only supposed to last 2-4 months tops and yet here we are, 9 months later still doing it. As far as the other bases are concerned a buddy over at CZ told me that the Embraer base in MEM will prob be moving to LGA sometime early next year. They seem to be ramping up for alot of flying out of there with the gate swaps.

While from a seniority integration, a merger wouldn't make sense, but from a cost standpoint it would...as long as there were appropriate fences in place (Common Fleet type betwen XJ & Comair). One management team for all the wholly owned (who still wouldn't know what they are doing)...and one flow through program to DAL...

BIG QUESTION: Once they get rid of all the Saabs what will they need the B gates for in MSP? From what I understand you can't park a 200 in the alley on the B gates...could be wrong though