MEM, CVG, LA, SEA and BOS. Book it.

We had one of our guys in the jumpseat a week before that AE came out telling us that DAL was looking to transition 20% of its flying from ATL to MEM so as to keep SWA out of MEM.

I think he may have been connecting the dots with a crooked line.


I wouldn't even pretend to guess where those 717s or 739 are going to be based.

I'll take fifty cents and see you a dollar in Atlanta for the full win.

"Always Bet on Atlanta"

Indeed.

I'd expect most or all of the 717s to be based in...ATL.

The 737-900 will probably do a lot of flying out of ATL, but as they add them, they can shift -800 flying pretty much anyplace, so I'd expect an overall increase in anyplace that currently has a 737 base. I'd expect to see shrinkage (!) in the SLC 7ER category and the NYC, DTW, and MSP 7ER category as the -900 takes some of the 757 flying as those airplanes are turned into FedEx box haulers.

You know who I am, and check out my juniority in ATL thanks to the focus on NYC. :)

I peaked with 65 below me on the ATL 767.... eek!

Yeah, being in ATL you've ended up in the training center a lot. The 320 is what, the 4th?

I feel really stupid asking this since so many of you are talking about a "flush", but what are you talking about when you say there will or won't be a "flush"?

Whatever the 717's are all going to DFW!!!

And 550 pilots rejoice!!!!

Yup, this one was voluntary. :) I'd still be weekends-ish rsv if I were still on the 737, though.

Between working pro live sound and the 737, I couldn't take that amount of hearing fatigue.

Plus I like to be able to sit with my legs crossed lady like while the tail falls off.

Brocc;

You know, there really are no stupid questions.

Except this one:D. Flush is a term used for downward or outward movement. You will hear it used in conjuction with bump...ie: no bump, no flush.

Bump is where in a merger a pilot from one airline displaces a pilot from the other airline from the seat he was in.

Flush is where due to a number of reasons you are displaced from the aircraft you are on and or furloughed.

The terms are used primarily in a merger scenario, but could come into play in other scenarios. You have experienced it by being bounced around the bottom to typically lower paying equipment.