ninerdriver

Our longest stuff is probably going to involve the Midwest to Texas or South Florida. MSP-DFW, MSP-SRQ, CVG-RSW/FLL, etc.

We're slated to get a little bit of LGA flying back in January, so LGA-STL and LGA-MCI can get added to that list then.

brocklee9000

DTW-LAN was always either fun and quick, or short and miserable (mostly on the way back to DTW when you get capped at 9000' so they can sequence you behind everyone on the Rock City and then get set up for a 20+ mile final on go-home leg). Lately the shortest ones I've been doing are like PHX-TUS, PHX-FLG, but I know we have much much shorter flights. Hayes to Salina was always short, same with Pellston to Alpena (which was a DL route). I've been doing some really long AA 700 flights since this summer, like MSN CID DSM OMA...

Anyway DL routes. For the 200, DTW-AZO is 113sm, which is basically the same as the TUS and FLG routes I do now. DTW-AZO might be the shortest we do for DL on a 200. SLC routes like PIH is 150sm. I don't know what's still going on over in MSP for us, but Brainerd is 114 so it's almost as short as Kalamazoo. LAX-PSP is only 110, but that's obviously not a 200. So I'm going to say MSP-BRD is probably the shortest DL 200 we do, by a smidge. No clue what the longest is, but I was always told DL won't do a 200 over 600 miles. Even if it's not 100% true, I'd say that was pretty much the case though. One of the longest DL flights I did in a 200 was DTW-ORH back when that route existed, and it came in just under 600 statute miles. From what I can see (the DL route map on SWOL says AUG20, so maybe outdated) puts SLC-FCA at 531sm, and SLC-RAP just behind at 508sm.

It looks like the longest 900s we fly are DTW-SAT 1214sm, DTW-IAH 1075, MSP-YYC 1051, MSP-SAT 1097, MSP-IAH 1034. Pasco would have been the furthest, but that went to the ERJ once it came to Minneapolis. Same with some of the SLC routes like MEM STL IAH, mainline or ERJ. KSLC-KSAT gets an honorable mention at 1087sm, since it bounces between 900 and ERJ and sometimes mainline 220. As for the shortest 900 flights... I was gonna say DTW-CLE at 95sm, I remember doing that on 700s and 900s out of DTW, but it looks like we haven't done that in months. I'd say it could be any number of SLC flights that occasionally get dual class jets thrown on them. SLC-TWF is 175sm and sees a 700 sometimes. Once upon a time I had a 900 trip out of DTW that had a 900 to LAN, and a random 700 to SBN. Back when we did GRR on a 900 it was 120 miles. But yeah, I'd say the shortest now are in the 175-200 mile range like the occasional 7/9 that get mixed in out of SLC to places like TWF or IDA (that one might be all ERJ now...) SGU, as well as the occasional 900 upgauge from DTW like PLN. DTW-TVC looks like it's back on a 900 too, just over 200 miles.

Silver02ex

Delta should bring back DTW-TOL which was the shortest at 55 miles. My personal best was 24 min blocked in the 200. This CDO went very senior since it's short, 8 hrs on the ground, van driver was waiting for us, hot breakfast, and the station de-ice us before we showed up in the morning.

Avroman

I was always a fan of the CDO's that got back after 9 am as they weren't coverable by a P3 reserve, so if the sick call came after about 2 pm there was no way to cover the trip and I got a paid night at home.

telejet

DEN-COS and ORD-MKE are up there too.

brocklee9000

67sm and 73sm, respectively. Takes more time to get from the gate into the air, than it does to actually fly.

TransWorld

You are talking about DFW landing to gate, from most anywhere, as well. I’m just grousing.

KelvinHelmholtz

10 more 200s coming. Another realignment coming out this week. From the email it sounds like MSP 200 will be reopening as well.

glorifdbusdrivr

MSP 200 will probably go pretty senior huh?

Meow1215

Absolutely!