Originally Posted by happydad100

There is a pretty good discussion going on over at airliners.net about the NW Airbus 319 being deployed to SLC (and other SLC speculation including new international routes, and fate of RJ's):

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-fo....main/4172012/

Anyone ever flown on a A319? I really like the 757 (with IFE in each seat) or the 737 fleet on the SLC to east coast routes. Not sure about the A319s (currently no power ports or IFE). Maybe DL would add IFE. I also like keeping the M90's in SLC.

With limited gate space in SLC, I do think the combined DL/NW could put more capacity at SLC by increasing mainline at the expense of RJ's. For example there are two RJ's afternoon flights from PDX to SLC. Maybe they could fly one mainline flight. I'd gladly trade a RJ for a A319. However, not sure I want to trade a 757 for a A319.