Ha! I was in Newport on Sunday, rented a Rhodes 19 at Sail Newport to cruise around the bay, raced a couple of F16s past Castle Hill Light. I lost. :o
Lots of F16s setting up & launching at the time, didn't even think to message to see whether you were there.

Well I just heard a rumor that they don't want to go to the expense of opening an entire new narrow body base in SEA and are just going to add additional guys on the 737 and 320 in SLC and 737 in LAX to cover the SEA flying. Was told they figured the training costs would be huge due to the amount of movement that it would cause and they could save staffing reserves.

That would work for awhile, but if we do a lot of flying there they will need reserves you would think.

Look@ DTW717, no change in 5 months. approx 35 crews steady. nothing planned to change in next 3-4 months. DTW717 may close, NYC or SEA 717may open. I think the next base/aircraft re-alignment notice will happen with some sort of DTW717 change.

I'm not sure of your source, but there aren't any plans to close DTW717. If lack of growth indicates base closure, CVG would've shut down 10 years ago. NYC probably will be the next 717 base, SEA a remote longshot, but I'm hopeful.

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Don't you think new hires will be going to dtw717 to plus that cat up as airframes keep coming in? Btw does anyone know how many we have and what the delivery Sched is going fwd?

We're not going to give up information like that on the world wide web. The 717s are not here to chose sides, they are here to take over. We coming.

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And once we're all here,

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It's going to get real.

Well, that's a new twist on the old "land shark" bit.
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36 on the property. Mostly 3, sometimes 4, per month until we have all the AT frames. Rumored to be open to picking up more as they become available.

RA said he "felt" there would be a 717 base there even though networking said no. I would probably go with RA!

I agree and hope that's the case.

BOS is one of the best markets in the country. JB was on the fence about trying to add it as a dot on their route map when all the sudden they were offered an entire terminal (thanks to DL) and almost overnight became the biggest airline in Boston history, taking over the Red Sox sponsorship to boot.

Its extremely affluent, everyone there travels, and it puts to shame almost every other town that dares to attempt to call themselves a "college town" and it has the air travel inertia per capita that few can match. They have more built in affluent travelers per capita than probably any other large city in the country by a wide margin. It is as close to "recession proof" as you can get in this industry.

IMO we need to kick CAL out and utilize every gate and find a way to get customs to staff it like it was designed for from the beginning. I'd think RA has a lot more clout to get something that basic and federal done. It would also help Boston and MA. If a few palms have to be greased, so be it. We paid 350M for a skinny sheet metal bridge in LGA and 1.5 Billion for a net 5 or 6 gates in JFK. I think we can get customs to locate to A in BOS for a lot less than that.

Its time to own that amazing market again and pry JB's crown jewel right out.