Originally Posted by
captain152
Just to add my $.02 ...
I agree 100% that the Q's will more than likely not be going to IAH anymore. If they were, management would not have come out with a memo that, in a nutshell said, "Rumor spreading regarding the Q's not coming to IAH anymore ... Meeting with Co-nited this Friday ... Update to come soon". They would have simply said, "this is rumor, they will still be coming to IAH" end of story.
I figured when the Co-nited merger happened it could literally change everything. We (9L) are one of the only regionals (yes, there are a few others) that operates almost exclusively for both airlines (yes, USAirways is there too, but not a huge competitor). So, they could pretty much rearrange our entire route system if they wanted to with us being the only operator of the Q-400 aircraft for both airlines.
I'll be very interested to see what comes of this next week!!
I'd be willing to bet that you can be looking forward to a Denver base and LAX or SFO base as well in the future. I bet we (SkyWest) will be moving out east to EWR with our 700s while your Qs will be doing some of the coveted west coast short hops and colorado mountain flying that we do with the 50s and 70s.
Complete speculation on my part, but i'd put money on it happening in the next year.