Expressjet going to STC (St. Cloud, MN)??

[General Lee]

I have a buddy up there and he said Mesaba is pulling out at the end of the year and the town is trying to get Expressjet as a United Express carrier to fly to ORD from STC. Fun times! Great place to dump 50 seaters---small po-dunk towns. It's the future!


Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[CA1900]

As an added bonus, they'll finally have a reasonable alternate for MSP. :laugh:

 

[Northern Lights]

Good luck with that. Good thing they finally finished the new terminal there!

 

[M-crit]

I think Delta is going to be the worst thing that ever happened to Mesaba. Northwest comes in a close second though.

 

[MALSR]

Good thing they finally finished the new terminal there!

And good thing they got the new control tower...and new runway....and new ILS to 13....and new fire station....and new Oshkosh fire truck.

 

[MACH-TUCK]

What about Brainerd, I Falls, Bemidji and all the rest of them, are they going to axe them all?

 

[General Lee]

As an added bonus, they'll finally have a reasonable alternate for MSP. :laugh:

It took my a second, but your wit is sharp indeed, since you are talking about the RST incident. As far as the new terminal and co-tower, the mentality is: If you build it.....they will come........ they keep saying that. They couldn't fill 3 daily Saabs according to my buddy up there. But, I bet DL will reinstate the Saabs if UAL and XJT go up there, so everyone will lose more money.

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[dojetdriver]

I have a buddy up there and he said Mesaba is pulling out at the end of the year and the town is trying to get Expressjet as a United Express carrier to fly to ORD from STC. Fun times! Great place to dump 50 seaters---small po-dunk towns. It's the future!


Bye Bye--General Lee

Funny, considering XJT ISN'T a UAX carrier.

This next week will be interesting to say the least. That is, if they don't delay an announcement, again.

As far as the 50 seaters, go, yep, they should be gone. But all of them aren't going away anytime soon. So if they have to rear they're ugly existence and not be replaced by turbo props, where would you rather have them fly?

To the po-dunk towns, or flying mainline routes between larger cities?

But, I bet DL will reinstate the Saabs if UAL and XJT go up there, so everyone will lose more money.

Are you sure that isn't EAS flying? If I remember correctly, SkyWest just got some out of ORD.

 

[CA1900]

It took my a second, but your wit is sharp indeed, since you are talking about the RST incident...

I was hoping you'd catch that! :laugh:

Funny, considering XJT ISN'T a UAX carrier.

Not yet, no. But with CAL now a Star Alliance partner, it's not out of the realm of possibility.

 

[MACH-TUCK]

Funny, considering XJT ISN'T a UAX carrier.

This next week will be interesting to say the least. That is, if they don't delay an announcement, again.

As far as the 50 seaters, go, yep, they should be gone. But all of them aren't going away anytime soon. So if they have to rear they're ugly existence and not be replaced by turbo props, where would you rather have them fly?

To the po-dunk towns, or flying mainline routes between larger cities?



Are you sure that isn't EAS flying? If I remember correctly, SkyWest just got some out of ORD.

I think CMX is another one that is going away and I heard UAX is going to do it out of ORD.

 

[dojetdriver]

Not yet, no. But with CAL now a Star Alliance partner, it's not out of the realm of possibility.

True, but that would entail some SERIOUS re alignment.

But I think you may have missed all the subtle hints at the rampant rumors flying about XJT and UAL.

 

[MALSR]

They're trying to get $500,000 in funding for XJT. Why not just give it to Mesaba and keep them there. Maybe Delta is playing hardball.

http://www.sctimes.com/article/20091030/NEWS01/110290085/1009

 

[dojetdriver]

They're trying to get $500,000 in funding for XJT. Why not just give it to Mesaba and keep them there. Maybe Delta is playing hardball.

http://www.sctimes.com/article/20091030/NEWS01/110290085/1009

Again, XJT is not a UAX carrier. I know, Star Alliance blah blah blah.

And again, I don't see this going to XJT under a Star Alliance codeshare when EAS is ALREADY being doled out to current ORD UAX operations.

 

[cybourg10]

Again, XJT is not a UAX carrier. I know, Star Alliance blah blah blah.

And again, I don't see this going to XJT under a Star Alliance codeshare when EAS is ALREADY being doled out to current ORD UAX operations.

Maybe XJT will be a UAX carrier soon.....

 

[WMUSIGPI]

They're trying to get $500,000 in funding for XJT. Why not just give it to Mesaba and keep them there. Maybe Delta is playing hardball.

http://www.sctimes.com/article/20091030/NEWS01/110290085/1009

Delta doesn't want it. They want to get rid of the Saabs while they have the opportunity to do so.
This is all just part of the dog and pony show to allow Delta to dump these cities without looking so bad.

 

[10nCLR]

The complete proposal
http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#documentDetail?R=0900006480a2b55a

For their reasoning, it will initially take you to their home page. Just repaste or whatever and it should bring up the deets.

 

[DrunkIrishman]

I'll have you know that St. Cloud is NOT a podunc city! It was ranked in Playboy's top 5 party colleges in the country when I went there!

 

[10nCLR]

I'll have you know that St. Cloud is NOT a podunc city! It was ranked in Playboy's top 5 party colleges in the country when I went there!

That's coming from Gen Lee, he likes to think he knows all. Gen your sis lives in a po-dunk town.

 

[Heavy Set]

That's coming from Gen Lee, he likes to think he knows all. Gen your sis lives in a po-dunk town.

Didn't he say his sister lived in Billings? Is Billings larger than St Cloud?

 

[mynameisjim]

Didn't he say his sister lived in Billings? Is Billings larger than St Cloud?

Billings has 100,000, St Cloud has 60,000