Daily Departures
 

I saw a graph in one of the resources news letters recently that showed projected daily departures by base and category expected for this summer vs last summer. I noticed DTW is down huge for projected daily departures, in particular, DTW A320 going from 50 to 23 and 7ER going from 32-22. The only real grower is 717 from 33 to 53. Is there something going on that I'm missing? Are they cutting back at DTW in general?

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Looks like the A320 category is down almost everywhere but NYC. I don't see how that works out considering all the A321 deliveries.

I know we are planning on retiring some of the older 319s/320s.. maybe this projection accounts for that?

My guess is you are seeing the narrow bodies moving to NYC to cover for the -88's which are being removed (mostly to ATL) due to the RNAV restrictions.