And you only get a gym if you're ATL based. So there's that, too.

Come to Mecca, bud! It's not all that bad, despite what you read about here. We all get along famously!

Seems Boeing wants the Gobbmint to charge 79% tax on the "C" series now.

What if the company wants to open a VB in one of the previously mentioned cities. Let's say they are thinking DFW, SAT, or AUS. You say they have to wait and see who bids it and where they live. What if they want to let us know where they are thinking of putting one, and encourage local DFW guys, for example, to bid it. Or AUS or SAT.

Yeah it seems like it would be wise for them to generate interest beforehand in order to facilitate such a base. Also, it seems like we should hear fairly soon where the first C100 base will be since the first bid is only 3 or 4 months out.

[QUOTE=Big E 757;2386868]What if the company wants to open a VB in one of the previously mentioned cities. Let's say they are thinking DFW, SAT, or AUS. You say they have to wait and see who bids it and where they live. What if they want to let us know where they are thinking of putting one, and encourage local DFW guys, for example, to bid it. Or AUS or SAT.[/QUOTE

What I gather you are saying is the company would say we are opening a LAX base but promise you a VB in Texas so please bid for it. Just trust us!
If they are that sure of a year round need for a Texas base why not just open a regular base and save money?

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Perhaps Flight Ops has been burned by marketing and is understandably a lot more hesitant to open a base on what marketing says is a "surety."

Just think NYC 777 or even DTW 777 for that matter.

But honestly it really doesn't matter - right now the plan could be 99% LAX for a C series base and it could change 5 times before the fall. Time will tell.

Scoop

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...pecifi-438325/

May get even more published range.

Could be another reason for making our Korean relationship tighter.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...es-on-c-series

It may get a lot of things including additional interest from airlines. The only thing that matters however is additional orders. So far in that regard the interest is severely lacking. There will come a point when the plug has to be pulled on the program unless orders and a bunch are forthcoming soon.