Originally Posted by
PinnacleFO
i dont work for ASA but i can tell you how this rumor started because its the same rumor that probably happens at every regional. Your company has just announced more block hours for the 700 this summer if i am not mistaken. So someone probably took that and said hmmm, I wonder if that means we are getting more 700's? Then it spread like a virus throughout your airline.
That seems very logical.
All other possibilities, like ASA getting them from Mesa somehow seem very very unlikely at the present time. Stranger things have happened though. Maybe CRJ-700s could be part of that Vietnam thing? (How long before that statement pops up as it's own rumor
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