Originally Posted by
KC10 FATboy
Flew my last leg of a very long trip back to CVG this evening. To our surprise, there were 6 A320s there.
I mentioned this to one of the maintenance guys and he said, "Don't even get me started !!!". He ended up mentioning that there will soon to be more A320s overnighting than all the other DAL metal combined.
So, is there anyone else who has heard a possible A320 base in CVG and the MD88/90s going elsewhere?
According to Crew resources in the CVG base meeting a few weeks ago, they were not planning to adding a 320 category to CVG. All the official folks that were there said it was status quo for CVG for the foreseeable future.
That being said, the pilot group is edgy up here - and with good reason. We only had between 30 and 35 mainline departures a day to start with, all but one previously on the 73 or M88. Now the airbus has come in and taken quite of few of those depatures from each fleet (the '88 now has a grand total of 10 depatures a day from CVG,) - and no plans to add an airbus base - folks are wondering what we're going to be doing up here exactly. (Granted, most of the flying we do is to cover other bases most of the time, though.)
*AE Intel*
When they spoke to us, crew resources said the fall bid would not be huge. Not a cleanup bid, but with some "cleanup elements." The big item was the 76/7ER SLC thing. 88's getting 90 qualed in NYC (though they've said this before.) No more major narrowbody base shifts currently planed. 76 to 7ER the only major shifts in widebodies currently planed. Not planning to shift any 330's on this bid - or anytime real soon, for that matter.