I would think that MSP would continue to ramp up. We still have some "new" 90's comming down the pipe, and I would bet a good portion of them do some flying out of MSP. One has to wonder if they bulked up the 88 in NYC for the slot swap, and are now letting it shrink in the wake of its demise.

That being said, if you look at the 22.D.3 report issued with the latest AE, it show most of the -88 categories losing bodies. My understanding is that the 22.D.3 report is where crew resources plans to have all active pilots at the end of the conversion window. Anyone else notice there are 80 fewer pilots on this report than the one issued with the bid in May? Someone tell me what I'm missing here...

And in regards to the long call argument - I really don’t think a commuter needs to fly into his base on long call, just on the off chance scheduling calls in the “witching hours.” (And unless you commute by car, pretty much every place you could commute from has a “witching hour.”) In some categories, you’d be spending 20+ days hanging in your crashpad, and be lucky if you fly one trip. That’s just silly.

And just for the record -I don’t commute to reserve, I never played roulette, and I’ve never missed an assignment. I tried commuting for about 6 months, and between the stress and the low QOL, I just couldn’t do it. So I moved to base. Then they kicked me out of that base - so we made Delta pay for the move to the next one. Now I’m one of the guys that get’s called when someone “***** it up,” and I’m fine with that. I live 15 minutes from the parking lot, and spend most of my shortcalls at the park with my 2 year old.