I hear Cape Air is going to start operations out of PDX in the near future.

It's the shiznit. It's good. I'm really gonna miss it when I'm gone.

Most of the planes have already had the spar strap mod. Company doesn't blink twice at doing the right thing. Had an issue with crankshaft counterweights this past summer, and they grounded the whole fleet and changed em ALL in about 3 days. Top notch.

...and the company has been flirting with an EAS route out in the Washington/Oregon area, but until it's "Portland Ground, Cair XXX, ready to taxi with October" then it's just a rumor.

What's the pay range at Cape?

I understand this is a rumor, but have the rumored a time table..?

As a capt with cape how hard is it to get hours in the winter up in NE??? Or pay???

Captain pay: $12.80 per duty hour. You fly, you get paid...you don't fly, you get paid. :)

Getting any real hours is tough in the wintertime in NE as a junior captain. You won't have the seniority to bid a line so you'll be backup. Some days you'll fly your little blue tail off, other days you'll do one round trip from HYA to ACK and back and drop .4 in your logbook in an 8 hour shift.

Your best bet is to just bite the bullet and bid the Carribean for the winter. LOTS of flying down there, higher pay scale and if you're on Puerto Rico then overtime is awarded after 8 hours in a day or 40 in a week, whichever benefits you more. It really is a great time. Oh, and you work 4-on, 3-off so if being back in the US really meant that much to you then you could hop a Jblue direct back to BOS from San Juan on your off days.

Truly no idea. Not even speculation.

You mention CA pay... I thought they were single-pilot? They have FOs?