Friday, the Corpus Christi Caller Times reported Chautauqua hired 75 employees to be based in Corpus Christi. (Full Story) Here's the sentence that puzzled me:

The company, a subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings, hired 50 pilots and 25 flight attendants during an open house recruitment last month to serve as crew members on Continental Express flights. Those jobs were transferred from Houston.

Why would you base those jobs in CRP instead of IAH?

Worse yet the sentence:

In January the airline started to operate the first of 24 50-passenger Bombardier CRJ-200 aircraft as a Continental Express carrier.

The Express Jet ERJs we have flying CRP-IAH as Continental Express are like flying Business first compared to the Delta Connection CRJ's I've flown. If they are basing crew here, I guess they will be serving here. Bummer.