UA owns the planes, engines and provides the fuel, so the only expense is paying the crews to move the airplanes. Hardly a significant amount of money.

Would United pay for the fuel to perform a Part 91 repo from IAH-LNK? Genuinely don't know, but I don't see why whoever is footing the bill would willingly pick up a 12,000-15,000 lb fuel bill to send a 145 round trip from IAH-LNK. That's like $5k in fuel, per maintenance event, for no real reason. I can't claim to know more than you about the situation, but that sounds like a lot of money to spend on something that could have been done for no further cost in Albany after and before revenue 121 flights.

Just a guess on my part, but since maintenance is a required/fixed cost, the cost to get it to/from the maintenance event is probably baked into the accounting. Just a guess, like I said, but a logical one. C5 shouldn't have to pay for the fuel to move the airplane. They're just hired to operate it.

But maybe they do. Hell if I know.

I'll also say that reason and logic - at the levels the crews can see - don't often seem to factor into C5's decisionmaking.

I saw the 175 sittting in IAH with C5 colors. What's the latest on that program and when it might be providing revenue flights?

I can't believe they would not keep DEN open as a 175 base if the program was reasonably close.

All the idle 175s sitting around IAH, sure seems like they need all they help they can to fly them...

Most of the 145 flights I've been on are jam packed full...

Now this I can agree with wholeheartedly!

How many e-145s are currently active?

Is initial training AQP now? I know it's for recurrent but can't find any news/updates.

N & O checkride. Steep Turns, Stall, A go around, Single Engine Take off and a few approaches and a no flap landing.

How did the DEN closure shake out? Any displacements or mass resignations across the system?

A few displacements, but no mass resignation. Right now, block hours are going to IAH.