I'd agree that might have been what he meant....

45 MD 90's would mean that roughly 41% of the flyable MD 90's *that exist worldwide* would be comming to Memphis. Don't know about that...

The range on the 90's is about 2300 (statute) miles, so it could do both coasts. Might make sense to ship the 320's down to ATL, and have 88's/90's move to MEM. Guess we'll have to wait and see.

Take everything that comes from flt ops management with a big grain of salt. I personally don't think they're out to deceive us, but the info they give is only as good as the info they get. Case in point: SD in the weekly update about a month or two ago stated that he thought there would be "strong growth" in the MD90 flying on the January AE. Planes are slow comming out of the shop, and it ends up being the only category with displacements when the bid is actually released.