I hadn't heard that. That is a dead givaway that they are QX aircraft. If they show up with a QX tail number, there will be blood on the ramp.

I remember reading in one of the communications sent out to QX pilots the the aircraft were built with different cabin/galley specs or something of that nature. I hope we are not preparing to take QX aircraft. Not good.

That is exactly what that means. If they aren't reconfiguring the cabin, it makes me wonder if is a temporary transfer of aircraft or is it permanent. They won't be delivered for six months or more, that should be plenty of time to standardise the cabins prior to delivery.

Or there are more coming sooner that have not been announced.

I bet ac 193SY gets delivered next week :D

Either way, ugh. Not how I want to see it go down for QX. Hopefully its temporary if it does end up happening.

I will say it seems like the amount of flying announced and coming online for AK soon will necessitate more airplanes to complete. I thought someone posted that our next (announced) AK 175 delivery wasn't supposed to take place until mid next year. Isn't all the new flying supposed to begin by early 2018? There is defiantly a piece to the puzzle missing.

Welcome to mushroom land.

KSAN domicile is growing in November so I bet it arrives late October which would be consistant with redirecting a QX acft already configured for QX.

The wheels are off of the QX wagon, it is on fire and burning down. They are already losing AAG money and even with the bonuses, I don't see how they can catch up on staffing. I believe that their experiment with the 175 will come to an end by the end of next year, if not by next summer. Another summer like this last one and AAG will pull the plug.

And BOI is growing...

Plenty more fodder for QX to rightfully upset, but Alaska doesn't operate under a capped number of RJs.
They can expand as desired and the delay maybe only a delay. Alaska has all the cheap tools they need to turn QX around quickly.