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Good riddance YV. Thanks for contributing to the demise of AQ
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Originally Posted by DanTravels
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Mesa Air to end its Hawaiian operations, Go!
Originally Posted by JonathanOrnstein
With the significant expansion opportunities in flying large regional jets in contracted service, we are re-deploying the go! aircraft to support our existing mainland operations.
Given that Mesa has almost completely transitioned to CR7's and CR9's, and has only two CR2's left in service, with fifty-some stored, and given that Ornstein was also quoted about adding more CR9's and E-175's, I'm a little baffled as to what "support" a couple more old CR-2's would add to their mainline operations.
I suspect they'll actually be "re-deployed" to places that still value CR2's and thought other former
go! airframes were worth having - like Air Wisconsin, Skywest, Air Mali, Ak Bars Aero, or Rusline - or "stored" and/or scrapped. The "support" will probably come in the form of any money Mesa gets for them.
Maybe its not YV aircraft but YV pilots Mesa is after. @:-)
There's apparently quite the shortage of RJ pilots with the new FAA rules...
Last edited by cblaisd; Mar 18, 2014 at 7:24 am
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