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03-30-2008, 06:57 PM
#12
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Not new airframes. Just shifting around flying. Remember, we have lost Corpus, McAllen, Atlantic City, State College, etc....
They will probably take us out of some more cities as they shift to cover this Fla flying.
They will probably take us out of some more cities as they shift to cover this Fla flying.
03-30-2008, 07:00 PM
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03-30-2008, 07:06 PM
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Its great for ASA and I wish them the best but I am an Orlando native and I hate to say it but a lot of the routes they got are temporary because Freedom can't staff them. Temporary because some of the routes i.e. TYS, MSY and some others are part of Delta's newest cuts in the up and comming months. But much rather ASA be doing this flying then Freedom even if some of it is temporary.
03-31-2008, 05:29 PM
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I am glad to see that ASA is expanding out to MCO but I hate to rain on your Freedom bashing. If you read the layout of the Delta/Freedom flying you will see that when Freedom signed, they gave up ALL ERJ flying in exchange for CRJ 900's out of JFK. This is not a surprise loss of flying for Mesa as so many would like to see but rather, just like ASA, just a shift in where they are flying out of. If you look through other post you will see that Mesa is selling their ERJ's to TSA. This was stated by OJ years ago that he didn't want the ERJ because they are a seperate fleet type. But all the same congrats to ASA!
03-31-2008, 11:14 PM
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I am glad to see that ASA is expanding out to MCO but I hate to rain on your Freedom bashing. If you read the layout of the Delta/Freedom flying you will see that when Freedom signed, they gave up ALL ERJ flying in exchange for CRJ 900's out of JFK. This is not a surprise loss of flying for Mesa as so many would like to see but rather, just like ASA, just a shift in where they are flying out of. If you look through other post you will see that Mesa is selling their ERJ's to TSA. This was stated by OJ years ago that he didn't want the ERJ because they are a seperate fleet type. But all the same congrats to ASA!
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04-01-2008, 06:38 PM
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well congrats guys. i thought they would have announced this on monday since my friend found out about it on saturday. i guess better late than never!!
http://www.reuters.com/article/press...EN476120080402
http://www.reuters.com/article/press...EN476120080402
04-01-2008, 06:43 PM
#20
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So from my buddy at asa its official. ASA is taking over the freedom flying in orlando starting May 1. It will all be 200 flying. They have already asked mechanics, customer service agents, and others move down there and start operations. Not sure if they will have a pilot base there at the beginning or not but supposedly will be turned into a mini hub as freedom gets the boot.
some of the guys were worried about moving there because they thought that it would turn into the lax thing but they were promised from the higher ups that it wouldn't be like that and that as they take the flying over that orlando would become a base just like it is for freedom.
some of the guys were worried about moving there because they thought that it would turn into the lax thing but they were promised from the higher ups that it wouldn't be like that and that as they take the flying over that orlando would become a base just like it is for freedom.
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